September 12, 2019: CCS Seminar—”LU Xun and Whitman”

Lu Xun flier
“Lu Xun and Walt Whitman”

2019 is the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth, as well as the centennial of the May 4th Movement.

Speakers:

Wang Xirong 王锡荣

Visiting professor of Chinese literature at the Shanghai Jiaotong University

Associate Director of the Lu Xun Research Association

“Whitman and Sino-U.S. Literary Exchange”

Gu Jun 顾钧

Professor of world literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University

“Translating Lu Xun & His Acceptance in the West”