Symposium 2007:

The Individual and Society
in Modern Chinese Literature

Schedule & Programme


 
Thursday, November 29, 2007
 
Morning
08:30
Registration
09:00-09:10 Welcome Address by Artur WARDEGA, S.J. 万德化
09:10-09:30
 

I. Painful Beginnings — From Violence of History to History of Violence
09:30-10:45 Presentation & Panel Discussion 1A:

Luís SEQUEIRA, S.J. 吕硕基: Chairperson

杨剑龙 YANG Jianlong
论中国现当代文学史上的人性观论争
Discussing the Debate on Views of Human Nature in the History of Contemporary Chinese Literature

葛涛 GE Tao
从“文革” 之初到 “六四”之後:鲁迅对20世纪70——90年代中国社会的影响
From the Start of the “Cultural Revolution" to the End of the “June Fourth” Incident: Lu Xun’s Influence on the Chinese Society from the 1970s to the 1990s

林赖胜 LAM Lai Sing: Discussant
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Presentation & Panel Discussion 1B:

César GUILLÉN-NUÑEZ 胡纪伦: Chairperson

王晓渔 WANG Xiaoyu
从红色理想到血色浪漫——论老鬼
From Red Idealism to Sanguine Romanticism: A Study on Lao Gui

河西 HE Xi
被遮蔽的痛苦:格非小说中的植物学研究
Shaded Pains: Botanical Study in Ge Fei’s Fiction

林岗 LIN Gang: Discussant
12:30-14:30 (Group Photo) - Noon Break
 
Afternoon
 

II. Individual and Social Sphere — Between Chinese Traditions and Present Westernization
14:30-16:15 Presentation & Panel Discussion 2A:

郑炜明 CHENG Wai-ming: Chairperson

何伟杰 HO Wai Kit
从个人暴力到集体暴力:1922年澳门「五.二九」事件与罢工潮
From Individual to Collective Violence: 1922 ‘May Twenty-Ninth Incident’ of Macau and the Strike


余丽文 YEE Lai man, Winnie
Rediscovering the “Public Sphere”: The Emergence of Literary Critical Space in Hong Kong in the Early 1920s

Sebastian VEG
Utopian Fiction or Critical Examination:The Cultural Revolution in Wang Xiaobo’s The Golden Age

Dominique TYL, S.J. 狄明德: Discussant
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-18:05 Presentation & Panel Discussion 2B:

Ruben DE FREITAS CABRAL 鲁本文: Chairperson

陈文烨 CHEN Wenye
历史与现代的交融——读王小波《青铜时代》
A Fusion of History and Modernity: An Interpretation of The Bronze Age by Wang Xiaobo

Wolfgang KUBIN 顾彬
German Melancholy and Chinese Restlessness: Ye Shengtao’s Novel Ni Huanzhi

崔明芬 CUI Mingfen: Discussant
18:05 End of Day 1


Friday, November 30, 2007
 
Morning
09:00-09:30
Registration
 

III. Fragility of Chinese Humanism — Local and Global Confusion of Modern and Post- Modern Times
09:30-10:45 Presentation & Panel Discussion 3A:

曹静 CAO Jing: Chairperson

张业松 ZHANG Yesong
打开“伤痕文学”的理解空间
Opening Up the Space for Interpretation of the “Scar Literature”

李进超 LI Jinchao
女性:婚姻中必须承受之轻——从王海鸰“婚姻三部曲”看中国当代女性社会处境之变迁
Women: A Lightness that a Marriage Must Balance—An Examination into the Shift of Social Situation of Women in Contemporary China from the “Marriage Trilogy” by Wang Hailing

沈双 SHEN Shuang: Discussant
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Presentation & Panel Discussion 3B:

Isabel MORAIS 莫依沙贝: Chairperson

金丝燕 JIN Siyan
女性写作:当代中国社会的一面镜子
Female Writings: A Mirror of Contemporary Society in China

欧阳桢 EOYANG Chen, Eugene
The Ends of the World or The Edge of Heaven: The Ambivalence of the Modern Chinese Writer

魏白蒂 WEI Peh T’i: Discussant
12:30-14:30 Noon Break
 
Afternoon
 

IV. Chinese Literature and Modern Culture
14:30-16:15 Presentation & Panel Discussion 4:

Glenn TIMMERMANS: Chairperson

李奭学 LI Sher-shiueh, Wallace
The Soul Mountain Revisited: On Gao Xingjian’s View of Language and its Relationship with the Tradition of Chinese Novels

苏七七 SU Qiqi
张艺谋电影与中国当代小说:从文学时代到影像时代的文化权力变迁
The Films Directed by Zhang Yimou and the Contemporary Chinese Fictions: A Shift of Cultural Power from Literature Age to Image Age

阿城 Ah Cheng
Chinese Writer and Use of Modern Media—Interviewed by Zeng Yuan 曾园

Thierry MEYNARD, S.J. 梅谦立: Discussant
16:15-16:20 Announcements on the Evening
16:20-16:50 Coffee Break
 


Evening
20:00-22:00 Literary Saloon "雅集" (By Invitations)

郑炜明 CHENG Wai-ming: Chairperson
22:00 End of Day 2


Saturday, December 1st, 2007
 
Morning
09:00-09:30
Registration
 

V. The Chinese Self in Globalizing World
09:30-10:45 Presentation & Panel Discussion 5A:

Yves CAMUS, S.J. 赵仪文: Chairperson

Keith TESTER
After Identity? Fractured Lives in Rapidly Changing Society

伍晓明 WU Xiaoming
他者“的”迫害——鲁迅与莱维纳斯
The Persecution “by” Others - Lu Xun and Levinas

Edmund RYDEN, S.J. 雷敦龢: Discussant
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Presentation & Panel Discussion 5B:

Artur WARDEGA, S.J. 万德化: Chairperson

Tudor VLÃDESCU
Literature as the Phoenix - Case Study on a W.S. Landor Book singled out from a Collection of Books that Belonged to a Macau Intellectual

陆杨 LU Yang
文化研究的兴起和文学救赎功能的变迁
The Rise of Cultural Study and the Evolution of the Redeeming Function of Literature

毛思慧 MAO Sihui: Discussant
12:30-14:30 Noon Break
 
Afternoon
 

VI. The Status of Poet and Translator: Care of Chinese Language and Literature
14:30-16:15 Presentation & Panel Discussion 6:

Tereza SENA 冼丽莎: Chairperson

刘光耀 LIU Guangyao
海子之后: 中国基督教诗歌的两种进路—— 兼及中国传统与现代西化之间
After Hai Zi: Two approaches for Chinese Christian Poetry—Between Chinese Tradition and Modern Westernization

梁秉钧 LEUNG Ping-kwan
写作与翻译
Writing and Translating

蒋向艳 JIANG Xiangyan
诗歌翻译的一个文本:朱迪特•戈蒂耶的《玉书》
A Text of Translation of Poems: Le Livre de Jade of Judith Gautier

姚京明 YAO Jingming: Discussant
16:15-16:20 Announcements of the Evening
16:20-16:50 Coffee Break
16:50-17:50 CONCLUDING ROUNDTABLE

Bonnie S. McDOUGALL 杜愽妮
: Chairperson
17:50 Final Address by Professor Wolfgang KUBIN 顾彬