Title: Stories in Context: Narrative Tradition and the Chinese Story
Lecturer: FU Xiuyan (Professor emeritus at Jiangxi Normal University)
Chairperson: JIN Wen (Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University)
Date: 10 am, September 25th, 2017 (Monday)
Venue: Room 5103, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
What would the “great Chinese story” mean in the current age of globalization and how will China’s search for a more favorable international environment for development fare? This question has significant implications for China’s future and depends heavily on what the Chinese are accustomed to hearing. This paper explores the narrative genres endemic to the Chinese mind and proposes a few ways of extending the terrain, to include for examples narratives of adventures and journeys often seen in Western history.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
FU Xiuyan, Professor emeritus at Jiangxi Normal University, director of the Center for Narrative Studies at Jiangxi Normal. Final Reviewer for National Social Sciences Foundation, Chief Specialist for National Social Science Foundation Collective Project “Chinese and Western Narrative Traditions”.
