Modern China from the Perspective of Images: Centered on Shanghai
When: Saturday, February 26 at 14:00
Venue: Bilibili Haisu Lecture Hall
Speaker: Zhang Wei (Research Librarian, Shanghai Library)
The development of modern China coincided almost simultaneously with the development and application of photography, and this coincidence made it possible to record the modern history of China using light and shadow film images, and visual documents have become a very important carrier for the study of history today. In this lecture, Mr. Zhang Wei will lead you to briefly review the development history of photography and talk about the connection between photography and late Qing China centered on Shanghai.
Breakout: Recitation and Dialogue – Hong Kong International Poetry Night Series
When: Saturday, February 26 at 20:00
Location: Phoenix Network, single reading WeChat video number
Guests: Zhai Yongming (poet, writer, screenwriter), He Xiaozhu (poet, novelist), Zhou Zhan (poet, translator, drama worker)
In this issue, poets Zhai Yongming, He Xiaozhu and Zhou Zhan are invited to talk about the Hong Kong International Poetry Night series, and talk about the dance short film "Silk Silk" specially composed for the second season of the "Breakout" series of the Hong Kong International Poetry Night.
Border cities, rural areas, China: Shen Congwen, Zhang Ailing, Wang Zengqi
When: 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 27
Location: ZOOM Conference (ID: 81513137924, Password: 406375)
Guests: Chen Dandan (Associate Professor, Department of History, Politics and Geography, State University of New York, Farmingdale), Yang Zao (Research Fellow, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Ling Yunlan (Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Communication University of China)
On Sunday morning, Beijing time, Chen Dandan, Yang Zao, and Ling Yunlan, three guests, respectively, with the themes of "Looking at China from the Border City: Shen Congwen and Zhang Ailing", "My Teacher Shen Congwen - Shen Congwen's Interpretation of Wang Zengqi in the Context of the 1980s", "From 'Rural People' to 'Hunan Rural People'--Shen Congwen's Local Cognition in the 1940s", three important writers in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature: Shen Congwen, Zhang Ailing and Wang Zengqi.
Plum Garden Classics Reading Group, No. 43: Li Jieren's "Backwater Breeze"
Time: February 27 (Sunday) 15:00-17:30
Venue: Tencent Conference (ID:172136202)
Guests: Zhong Siyuan (Teacher, Shangluo University), Zhang Deqiang (Associate Professor, Nanjing University of the Arts)
In the big family of writing urban literary classics in dialects, we say that there is Lao She in the north and Li Jie in the south, who may not be as famous as Lao She, but he is the first person in the history of the development of modern Chinese novels. His masterpiece "The Great River Trilogy" ("Backwater Breeze", "Before the Storm", "Big Wave") breaks the traditional structure of chapter and loop novels in the field of historical long-form creation, taking into account the grand narrative of history and the connotation of local folk culture, thus becoming the founding father of new literary long-form historical novels. As the last activity of the Meiyuan Classic Reading Group Urban Literature Series Co-reading Salon, and also the first co-reading salon of the group in 2022, we will set our sights on the beautiful Sichuan Plain, with Li Jieren's "Backwater Breeze" as an anchor, and complete a clever transition here. Under the leadership of Mr. Zhong Siyuan of Shangluo College and Mr. Zhang Deqiang of Nanjing Academy of arts, let us feel the unique waves stirred up by Chengdu's straightforward and fiery urban character in a pool of stagnant water at the end of China's imperial society in the form of online co-reading.
The Evolution of Problem Awareness and Path in the Study of the Environmental History of the British Empire
Time: March 2 (Wednesday) 15:00-17:00
Venue: Tencent Conference (ID: 83944726, Password: 0302)
Speaker: Wu Lingjing (Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History, Chinese Min University)
The history of the British Empire covers both the great changes in human relations and the continuous changes in human and natural relations everywhere. The british empire's internal political games, territorial encroachment, resource grabbing and knowledge dissemination shaped the world's ecological and cultural landscape, on the contrary, the natural environment and social culture of different colonies also affected the expansion process of the British Empire. The study of the environmental history of the British Empire hopes to explore the historical roots of the relationship between global environmental change and inequality by exploring the interaction between man and the rest of nature in the British colonial era. At present, the academic value and research potential of this field are becoming increasingly prominent, and the research themes and paths continue to evolve, so it is necessary to investigate the development context of this field.
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Shanghai | meets writers in an open classroom – a dialogue and collision of ideas between writers and students
Time: February 25 (Friday) 14:00-16:00
Location: 2nd floor, Writers Bookstore, No. 677 Julu Road, Jing'an District
Speaker: Cheng Yongxin (Writer, Editor-in-Chief of Harvest Magazine)
As the first in a series of activities for writers and students to talk to students, on Friday afternoon, Yongxin, the writer and master of Harvest Magazine, will bring his new novel collection "If Only the First Sight" to have a dialogue and exchange with students from Fudan MFA and east China Normal University's creative writing class.
Shanghai | "made" man and nowhere to be found for purpose: the diagnosis of modern conditions of existence
Time: February 25 (Friday) 19:00-21:00
Location: 3rd Floor, Rong Study Room, No. 150 Pucheng Road, Pudong New Area
Guests: Yu Zhejun (Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University), Qi Tao (Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University)
At the heart of modernity is the exercise of autonomy and self-determination by the individual, but it ignores man's identity as the creator of culture, which gives a strong sense of rootlessness or wandering. And when the purpose judgment is handed over to the individual, people often fall into nothingness and powerlessness. Should individuals who are caught up in a sense of nothingness choose autonomy or seek an external sense of belonging? To answer this question, the famous sociologist and thinker Max Weber's diagnosis of modern society and the modern mind can still provide the most valuable enlightenment. On February 25th, Yu Zhejun, associate professor of the School of Philosophy of Fudan University, deputy director of the Department of Religious Studies, doctor of philosophy of the University of Leipzig in Germany, and Qi Tao, associate professor of the School of Philosophy of Fudan University and anchor of the podcast program "Plato What", will be a guest of the Lujiazui Book Club, starting with readers to understand Weber, understand modernity, understand ourselves, and understand the society we are in.
Shanghai | love and memories deeper than the sea - Lenz's "Youth and the Sea of Silence" reading meeting
Location: Sinan Bookstore, 3rd Floor, No. 517 Fuxing Middle Road, Huangpu District
Speaker: Si Zhou (Book Editor)
"The Boy and the Sea of Silence" is the world-renowned German literary giant Siegfried Lenz's first novel masterpiece translated and published in the mainland, and has long been included in the must-read list of German secondary school students. On Friday night, we invited the editor of the book, Dr. Si Si of Literature at the National University of Singapore, to Sinan Bookstore to share with readers what he thought and felt about "Youth and the Sea of Silence", and immersed in the love and memories of the novel that are deeper than the sea.
Shanghai | Woody Allen and Uncle Shanghai's white depiction of the city
Time: February 25 (Friday) 19:00-21:30
Location: Kubrick Bookstore, 3rd Floor, Taikoo Li Stone District, Qiantan, Lane 500, Dongyu Road, Pudong New Area
Guests: btr (writer, translator, art critic), Zhao Hong (art creator)
Film directors have a more or less collecting habit, using memories to collect daily stories, collecting moments of floating light, and using frames to display their booty – in a broad sense of the word creators. The bottomless urban labyrinth has also given creators countless options for placing the camera, allowing people to stay, stare, wander and hide at will. On February 25, Kubrick Bookstore invited two city observers and fans to talk about Woody Allen, cities, films, and their own creations.
Shanghai | Lu Xun: The History and present that are constantly revisited
Time: February 26 (Saturday) 14:00-16:00
Venue: Sinan Literature House, No. 505 Fuxing Middle Road, Huangpu District
Guests: Ni Wenjian (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese, East China Normal University), Sun Xiaozhong (Professor of Chinese Department, East China Normal University, Doctoral Supervisor), Mao Jian (Writer, Professor of East China Normal University)
Lu Xun is one of the modern and contemporary writers most familiar to domestic readers, a regular visitor to language textbooks, a big boss of reading comprehension, a wild network satirist, and the most famous spit expert of golden sentences... Through reading Lu Xun, readers continue to know ourselves and understand the society and era in which we live. At the same time, he is also one of the most concerned Chinese writers in the world. Especially in neighboring Japan, from the last century to today, from the academic circle to the general reader, his reading has endured, and each generation of researchers is describing the Lu Xun in their hearts. Professor Maruo Tokiki, a master of Lu Xun studies in Japan, wrote "Between Light and Darkness: A Biography of Lu Xun" is a classic recognized by Chinese and Japanese academic circles. In 2022, it coincided with the 120th anniversary of Lu Xun's study in Japan and the 95th anniversary of his settlement in Shanghai. With this opportunity, Sinan Bookstore invited Mao Jian, Ni Wenjian and Sun Xiaozhong to talk about "Lu Xun: History and the Present", through the biography of "Between Light and Darkness: The Biography of Lu Xun", a biography from an extraterritorial perspective and related issues, to know this familiar and unfamiliar literary artist again, to understand his struggle and greatness as a modern Chinese, and also to inspire us to better establish our own connection with the classics, with history, and with the present.
Shanghai | this is not a novel? ——"Shanghai Capsule" new book sharing meeting
Location: Tsukiya Bookstore, Building 7, Shangsheng New Institute, No. 1262 West Yan'an Road, Changning District
Guests: btr (writer, translator, art critic), Shen Dacheng (writer, literary magazine editor), Lai Fei (editor, translator, art critic writer)
Can an exhibition be a novel? Or can a novel be an exhibition? Btr, an Aries born and living in Shanghai, a writer/translator/critic who loves useless things like novels/movies/contemporary art, decided to give it a try. In his latest collection of novels, "Shanghai Capsule", he built 19 exhibition halls out of thin air, entering from the entrance, in the space constructed by words and pictures, you can freely watch, imagine, wander, and shake with him... On Saturday afternoon, BTR invited his friend, writer Shen Dacheng and Editor-in-Chief lai Fei of Art World magazine, to join him as a guest at Tsutaya Bookstore to share his new work and discuss various topics such as exhibition and fiction, reality and fiction.
Shanghai | write in nakedness, blood, and exile
Venue: Duoyun College, 52nd Floor, Shanghai Tower, 501 Yincheng Middle Road, Pudong New Area
Guests: Ye Sha (Moderator), Gui Chuanli (Director of editorial department of Sprout Magazine), Peng Lun (Publisher)
Dennis Johnson himself once summed up three rules of writing: writing in nakedness, blood, and exile. The characters he portrays with his naked attitude, the temperature of his blood, and the spirit of exile are the self he sees after breaking through the thin window paper of life. His writing rules are vividly illustrated in his recently published collection of short stories, The Son of Jesus, the novella Train Dream, and his last living collection of short stories, The Gift of the Sea Fairy. On the afternoon of February 26, the host Ye Sha, the editorial director of Sprout Magazine, Gui Chuanjun, and the archipelago book publisher Peng Lun will talk about Dennis Johnson and his three important works at the flagship store of Duoyun Academy to identify the meaning of his writing.
Shanghai | from Sforza Castle to Teatro Alla Scala: the cultural imprint of Milan
Location: Hongkou District Fair Road No. 18, Building 8 Jiayu Building on the first floor of the 4th floor biography library of the Investment Bookstore
Speaker: Wang Jianquan (Associate Professor, Department of Western Languages, Shanghai University of Chinese)
On February 26th, Jiantou Bookstore invited Wang Jianquan, associate professor of Italian at Shanghai Chinese University and member of the National Italian Teaching and Research Association, as the keynote speaker to talk about Milanese culture with readers, and to feel how the city maintains a comfortable rhythm of self-growth in the turbulent fusion of tradition and modernity, and bursts with a steady stream of enduring vitality.
Shanghai | abandon Chang'an: Look back at the love-hate feud in the collapse of the prosperous world with the best-selling author Zhang Mingyang and You ghost Jun!
Venue: Shangju Art Bookstore, No. 620 Huashan Road, Jing'an District
Guests: Zhang Mingyang (history writer, media person), You Ghost Jun (media person)
At dawn on June 13, 756, Li Longji, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, left Chang'an in a hurry with a group of close courtiers. Since then, the gorgeous atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty has come to an abrupt end, and Chang'an has never appeared in the ranking of "World Capitals" again. Yesterday was still crowded and singing and dancing, but today people are panicked and precarious. On the afternoon of February 26th, we specially invited Mr. Zhang Mingyang, the author of "Abandoned Chang'an", and Mr. Youjijun to be guests at the Shangxi Art Bookstore to talk about the sadness and joy in the end of this prosperous world 1266 years ago.
Shanghai | Shanghai to face each other early
Time: February 26 (Saturday) 14:00-15:30
Location: No. 308 Chongqing South Road, Huangpu District, Dayin Jingshe Alpine Flow Hall
Speaker: Shu Shu (Writer, Producer)
When it comes to the breakfast of Shanghainese, it can be said that there are many tricks and countless, but no matter how to sort them into categories, the "four big Kongs" of fritters, flatbread, soybean milk, and rice must be listed in the first place. On February 26th, the old Shanghainese and senior media people will present readers with "Shanghai Breakfast on the Tip of the Tongue" at the Great Hidden Essence House, and welcome everyone to share the food on the tip of their hearts.
Shanghai | black hole and twelve stories - "Russian Matryoshka Doll" Rambling
When: Saturday, February 26, 15:00–17:00
Location: Poor Theater area between the two-story divine beasts at No. 788 Zhongshan South 1st Road, Huangpu District
Guests: Zhang Dinghao (literary critic), Wang Huicheng (literary critic), Sansan (novelist)
Eight years after his debut novel "Leaving the Soul", the young writer Sansan returned again. She traveled deeper into the world and collected twelve short stories that took place over twelve months to form The Russian Matryoshka Doll. Reunion with old love in my later years, can I escape the haze of the past day; a person who wants to make up for the sky sends me a suspicious letter of help; whether the mathematician who has studied the Riemann function all his life is crazy or a secret digger; what kind of variations are hidden behind a family dinner in winter... People who enter the cycle of life are looking for moments of "derailment".
Shanghai | Philosophy as a Way of Life - "Rhine's Shadow" New Book Sharing Session
Time: February 26 (Saturday) 19:00-21:00
Speaker: Zhang Rulun (Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Doctoral Supervisor)
Philosophy is a fundamental inquiry, an effort to contemplate life and understand the world, an insistence on the value of life, a rejection of a completely caught up in everyday trivialities and drifting with the flow. Behind the difficult and mysterious philosophical ideas is a strong human concern. Philosophers are living people, they do not turn their ears to the outside of the window, but with philosophy as the main content of life, with the thinking of fundamental problems and interaction with history and the times, and thus live in history and times. Philosophy is the way of life of a philosopher, and it can be the way of life of everyone. On the evening of February 26th, Professor Zhang Rulun, a well-known scholar, will bring his new book "Rhine Philosopher's Shadow" as a guest of Jiantou Bookstore Shanghai Pujiang Store, bringing readers a philosophical rambling, excavating the deeper care of philosophy beyond abstract reason and logic, leading readers to think about the relationship between philosophy and everyone's life, and opening up new possibilities for trivial daily life.
Shanghai | Brautigan's bubble punk and fragmented rock
Guests: Xiao Shui (poet, translator, lecturer of the department of Chinese, College of Literature, Shanghai University), Pan Qiyang (translator, well-known video content creator of Station B)
The sad drunkard, the low-class writer, the duck hunter in the wilderness, the patrons of the CityLight Bookstore, the never-ending Port wine and the never-ending stories of love and loneliness... These brautigan's recurring characters and their lives form an ode to hippie-era California life, Revenge on the Lawn. On the occasion of the publication of the Chinese edition of the book, Tsutaya Bookstore co-chaired a page and had the honor of inviting two translators, Xiao Shui and Pan Qiyang, to talk with us about Brautigen's "hippie life" and poetic creation.
The Flattening of Shanghai | Metropolis: Pictorials and Propaganda
Time: February 27 (Sunday) 14:00-15:30
Location: Fuji Image Sharing Space, No. 398 Middle Huaihai Road, Huangpu District
Speaker: Lin Ye (Translator, Writer, Visual Culture Researcher)
In this event, we will take the emergence of pictorial magazines in the 1920s as the starting point to explore the significant effects of the combination of photography and print media, as well as the role and impact of this super communication ability in the current era.
Shanghai | it does not matter whether you are poor or rich, what is important is your child's view of money!
Location: Hongkou District Fair Road No. 18, Building 8 Jiayu Building on the first floor of the construction of the book office
Speaker: Uncle Grey Pigeon (Media Person)
Where is economics? How to think like an economist? What do we need to know before we spend money? What does it mean to be truly free of wealth? On February 27th, Jiantou Bookstore and Beijing Science and Technology Publishing House invited Uncle Gray Pigeon, author of the "Junior Economics College" series, to Jiantou Bookstore Shanghai Pujiang Store to open the door for young people to understand wealth from the four core issues.
Shanghai | Winterland Wonders: Ireland in Manuscripts and Literature
Time: February 27 (Sunday) 14:30-16:30
Venue: Shanghai Sijue Art Museum, Building A9, Taishang Creative Park, No. 428 Wubao Road, Minhang District
Speaker: Bao Huiyi (Associate Professor, Writer, Department of English, Fudan University)
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is the unveiling of modernist literature, a literature about the history of all literature and about all history, and a redrawn map of the world and the heart for the city of Dublin in the early twentieth century. Joyce once compared Ulysses to the Book of Kells in the twentieth century, so what is the origin of the two? On February 27th, coordinates Shanghai Sijue Art Museum, let us follow Teacher Bao Huiyi from the "Book of Kells" to Yeats to Joyce, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary, through the interpretation of Ireland's most representative manuscripts and literary works, into the cultural and literary geography of the "Winterland", and open a voyage from "island lemon" to "world eel", between foreign lands and hometowns.
Shanghai | Taoist thought and Chinese literature
Time: March 2 (Wednesday) 18:25-20:15
Location: Small auditorium of Tongji University Huxi Campus, No. 500 Zhennan Road, Putuo District
Speaker: Chen Yinchi (Professor, Department of Chinese, Fudan University)
In the Chinese literary tradition, Taoism, like the dominant Confucians, has an extremely important position and influence. Focusing on the broad vision of the history of ancient Chinese literature, Professor Chen Yinchi intends to carry out vivid examples from the spiritual world of scribes, the ideological orientation of literature, and the conceptual characteristics of aesthetics, which will present another aspect of Chinese literary culture to the students. He will lead us to rethink the process of poetic transformation in ancient literature and the reconstruction, decline and re-extinction of aristocratic society, so that we can feel and understand the essence of Taoist culture in the Chinese literary tradition.
Shenzhen | between life and life - "Yu Laixin" offline sharing meeting · Shenzhen field
Location: LA VIE Material Life on the second floor of the South District of Liyuan Road, Nanshan District, 9 G&G Creative Community
Guests: Zhu Yujie (Writer, Curator), Wei Xiaohe (Book Critic)
As the young writer Zhu Yujie's new work "Letter from Yu Lai" said, "Resist the wear and tear of the ordinary and repetitive, focus on the present, fight against the huge, complicated and complicated outside world, and find passion and wisdom in a life of similarities." In this book of reciprocating letters from Zhu Yujie and 30 writers, artists and scholars, perhaps you can also leave a little gap between life and life and discover your own spiritual corner.
Nanjing | the fate and choice of ordinary people in the big era - a literary sharing meeting for the 220th anniversary of Hugo's birth
When: 19:00, Friday, February 25
Venue: Pioneer Bookstore, No. 173 Guangzhou Road, Gulou District
Guests: Zhang Xinmu (Second-level Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Nanjing University), Liu Chengfu (Second-level Professor of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University)
Hugo was the leader of the French Romantic literary movement, and the huge production "Les Misérables" wrote about the drifting and struggle of ordinary people in the torrent of the great era. On the evening of February 25, on the occasion of the 220th anniversary of Hugo's birth, Professor Zhang Xinmu and Professor Liu Chengfu will come to the Wutaishan Main Store of Pioneer Bookstore to chat with readers about Hugo and the fate and choice of ordinary people in the big era.