Professors Kong and Bai will discuss how a humanities scholar could introduce World Literature to Chinese general readers, and bridge the gap between creative writing and the academic world.
Shuyu Kong teaches in the Humanities and Global Asia program at SFU. Besides her academic work, including two books and one co-translation, she also writes for Chinese journals and media. Her new book Stories Illuminating the Journey 故事照亮旅程 (Beijing: Joint Publishing 2020) introduces her experiences of discovering world literatures and cultures through travel to general readers in China.
Professor Bai teaches Media Studies and Global Asia Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). Her research interests focus on Chinese media and popular culture in the context of China's integration into global capitalism. She is the author of Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics (UBC, 2015).
Diann Xu 徐棣军, Vancouver Public Library
Through dialogues among award-winning writers, artists, publishers and academia, the “Chinese/Canadian Writing” speaker series reveals the inspiration, identity and purposes of cross-cultural writing, showcases the diversity of Chinese Canadian writing, and explores the possibility of bridging different worlds through language, history and imagination.
“在加中之間寫作”系列講座通過四組著名作家， 藝術家，出版人和學者的演講和對話，討論聯繫不同世界的跨文化寫作的重要，以及在加拿大進行中文寫作的多種可能性。
Date
Friday, May 21, 2021
Time
4:30 - 6:00 pm Pacific Standard Time
Place
Online Webinar
Language
Mandarin Chinese
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