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Systemic functional translation studies (SFTS) has been a research area sustained by scholars from both Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and translation studies over the past decades. In China, there have been an increasing number of studies in SFTS after the 2000s, with Professor Guowen Huang being one of the pioneering and influential scholars contributing to this emerging research area. This paper is a transcript of an interview conducted with Guowen Huang and it serves to provide a general introduction to his research. In the interview, he discusses his motivation for exploring SFTS, the advantages of applying SFL to translation studies, and the Ph.D. students he has supervised over the past decades. He also introduces his own work on the translations of ancient Chinese poems, the translations of the Analects (Lunyu 论语) of Confucius, and his investigation of applying ecolinguistics to translation studies. Finally, he suggests some future studies needed in this area.

Within these years, there has been a significant increase in the number of Chinese Mainland sojourners studying in Hong Kong. Due to the huge differences in various aspects like language, culture, cultural value, it would be considerably difficult for the Chinese Mainland students to adapt to the Hong Kong environment. This article investigates the ways for a group of doctoral students from Chinese Mainland to acculturate in Hong Kong. With the help of questionnaires, the difficulties that the sojourners have encountered in social situations are measured. It is found out that age and gender may have influenced the participants' acculturation strategies, and interpersonal relationship is that which the subjects have the most difficulties with, while academic domain is the area with the least difficulties. Meanwhile, the results have shown that competence of local language is not a determinant factor of the sociocultural adaptation, and female subjects seem to adapt better than male subjects.

The combination and structural regulation of physical adsorption and chemisorption carriers for polysulfides play an important role in limiting the shuttle effect of lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs). So, in this paper, N, Co co-doped moss-like porous biochar (Co–N/CWPC) is synthesized and used as the sulfur host for LSBs. A large number of pores in the "moss" provide space for sulfur storage and volume expansion. And the introduction of N, Co provides plentiful catalytic adsorption sites, which can not only effectively limit the shuttle of polysulfides but also accelerate the conversion rate of polysulfides to the final discharge products. Moreover, Co also promotes graphitization and improves electrical conductivity of the biochar. After sulfur injection, the electrode shows an initial capacity of 787 mAh g−1 at 0.5 C and maintaining a capacity of 500 mAh g−1 after 500 cycles, the capacity decay rate is 0.07%. Even at a discharge rate of 1.0 C, it still maintained a capacity of 373 mAh g−1 after 1000 revolutions, with a capacity decay rate of 0.04%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]