Events
Mok Hing Yiu Lecture by Professor David Wang Der-wei
9 Dec 2015
5:00-6:30pm
LT1, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK
Professor Wang Der-wei
Prof. David Wang Der-wei is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Centre for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Sinica. He specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, late Qing fiction and drama, and comparative literary theory.
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Faculty Office of Arts
Tel: 39437107
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This lecture starts with the familiar question “What is modern Chinese literary history?”, and seeks to answer it in terms of the concept of “worlding” literary China. With the Harvard New Literary History of Modern China as a case-in-point, it offers a polemical model of writing and reading literary history, and tests its feasibility by examining the role Hong Kong plays in the project.
The Mok Hing Yiu Lecture was made possible with the generous donation from the Mok family in memory of the late Dr Mok Hing Yiu. On an annual basis, one widely acclaimed scholar will be invited to Hong Kong and will participate in teaching and scholastic exchange to advance teaching, research and academic development of CUHK.
