Dear List Members,
Please allow me to post the following information - the last of the three lectures features a prominent Chinese
poet, Yu Jian.
Contemporary Chinese Fiction, Poetry &Translation
Free Public Lectures
Jointly hosted by University of Technology, Sydney
University of New South Wales & University of Sydney
Mo Yan: "Reading with My Ears and Writing with My Nose"
(IN CHINESE WITH ON-SITE INTERPRETING INTO ENGLISH BY HOWARD GOLDBLATT)
TIME: Thursday, 17 May 2001, 5.00 ? 6.30 pm
VENUE: Lecture Theatre 351 New Education Building, Manning Road, University of Sydney.
All are welcome to join Mo Yan and Howard Goldblatt for dinner at 7.00 pm in Chinatown at
$40.00 per person. Reservations for dinner, mail cheque to Mabel Lee, Chinese Studies, A18
University of Sydney, NSW 2006 by 10 May 2001; inquiries: [log in to unmask]
The charge applies to dinner only.
Howard Goldblatt: "Why Translators Translate (and Why
More Don’t)"
(IN ENGLISH)
TIME: Friday, 18 May 2001, 5.00 pm ? 6.30 pm
VENUE: Lecture Theatre 351 New Education Building, Manning Road, University of Sydney.
Yu Jian: "Incident: My Life as a Poet"
(IN CHINESE WITH ON-SITE INTERPRETING INTO ENGLISH BY YIYAN WANG)
TIIME: Tuesday, 22 May 2001, 5.00 ? 6.30 pm
VENUE: Room 459 New Education Building, Manning Road, University of Sydney.
Mo Yan’s major works include Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, The Republic of Wine and
Big Breasts and Full Hips. The film Red Sorghum directed by Zhang Yimou is an adaptation
of the novel. Howard Goldblatt, professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado, Boulder,
is the most prolific translator of and commentator on contemporary Chinese fiction. He has
translated Mo Yan’s major novels into English. Yu Jian is an eminent poet in China and has
published several collections of poetry. Dr Simon Patton’s translations of Yu Jian’s poems
have appeared in Southerly (Sydney), Meanjin (Melbourne), Renditions (Hong Kong) and
The Kyoto Review (Japan).
Mo Yan and his translator Professor Howard Goldblatt, Yu Jian and his translator Dr Simon
Patton will all be at the Sydney Writers Festival, 14-20 May 2001 sponsored by the
Australia-China Council, the School of European, Asian, Middle Eastern Languages and
Studies, the University of Sydney, the Institute for International Studies, University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS), the Department of Chinese and Indonesian Studies, the
University of New South Wales and members of the Chinese community in Sydney. For
information on their activities at the Sydney Writers Festival, contact Festival info line 9566
4659.
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