Dr. David Der-wei Wang of Harvard University. [/caption]The 2
010/11 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r David Der-Wei Wang (Harvard University)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by the Wat Endowment and hosted by the Department of Asian St udies. Writing at a time when History has collapsed and Revolution has lost its mandate\, writers cannot take up the two subjects without pondering th eir inherent intelligibility. Drawing upon theories on “post-history” as de veloped by scholars such as Jacques Derrida\, Li Zehou and Liu Zaifu\, and contemporary fictional works as created by writers such as Mo Yan\, Yan Lia nke and Wang Anyi\, this lecture will address the following three issues: H istory after Post-History\, Enlightenment versus Enchantment and Socialist Utopia and “the Best of all Best Possible Worlds”.
Thursday\,
April 21st\, 2011
6:00pm-8:00pm (Pacific Time)
Asian Ce
ntre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
Free & open to t he public. Registration is now closed.
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on id="attachment_53551" align="alignright" width="200"] Dr. David Der-wei Wang of Harvard University. [/caption]
David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter -University Center for Sinological Studies at Harvard University. The world ’s leading scholar of modern Chinese fiction\, his research specialties inc lude modern and contemporary Chinese literature\, late Qing fiction and dra ma\, and comparative literary theory. Wang received his Ph.D. in Comparativ e Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, and has taught a t National Taiwan University and Columbia University. His many honors inclu de an honorary doctorate from Lingnan University (Hong Kong)\, and his appo intments as an Academician of the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and as a Yangtze River Scholar affiliated with Fudan University (Shanghai).
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous supp ort of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the full lecture list here.
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