| Volume 5, Number 2, April 2008 |
The Macau Ricci Institute’s
International Symposium 2007
by Artur K. Wardega 万德化 |
Cross Currents
The MRI Symposium on “The Individual and Society in Modern Chinese Literature”
by Bonnie S. McDougall 杜博妮
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FROM November 29th till December 1st 2007 the Macau Ricci Institute held its seventh International Symposium dedicated to Chinese Modern Literature. Looking back at its near past, the MRI research interest and attention were rather focused on various, historical and cultural, administrative and legal interactions between Macau-China and the Western World. In the past Symposiums we were also trying to cultivate memories of our great predecessors in the Christian Mission to China , par excellence, of Francis Xavier and Wu Yushan.
This year, thanks to the renewed interest in the literary subject, a good number of eminent Chinese and Western scholars, literary experts (Yang Jianlong, Eugene Eoyang, Sebastian Veg, Jin Siyan), leading writers and poets (A Cheng and Bei Dao, Cheng Wai-ming and Yao Jingming), philosophers and sociologists (Edmund Ryden, Thierry Meynard, Wu Xiaoming, Keith Tester and Dominique Tyl), outstanding sinologists (Wolfgang Kubin and Wei Peh T'i) and modern Chinese thinkers (Lu Yang, Li Sher-shiueh and Mao Sihui), translators...
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THE SPACIOUS grounds and first-class facilities of the Macau Institute for Tourism Studies was the very agreeable setting for the Macau Ricci Institute (MRI) symposium “The Individual and Society in Modern Chinese Literature” in November- December 2007. Thanks to the clear vision, meticulous planning and generous hospitality of the MRI, the symposium became the occasion for uniquely fascinating encounters between writers and scholars, facing challenges to China 's spiritual, humanistic and literary values in the face of its deteriorating natural environment, social instability and political repression as well as economic progress and world engagement.
The academic programme consisted of more than twenty papers ranging from textual criticism of twentieth and twentyfirst century Chinese poetry, fiction and film to discourses on modern literary history, theoretical studies, translation and philosophy. The presenters included junior and senior scholars predominantly from mainland China, plus representation from Taiwan, Macao, Hong Kong and...
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Elections
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