Kalendarium
Gästföreläsning16 sep 2016 kl. 09:00 – 10:00
Lokal: Eng 16-0043
Professor Wang Ning (Tsinghua University & Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Cosmopolitanism, World Literature and Modern Chinese Literature
Open lecture during the workshop Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures Language: English This lecture will trace the origin of the practice of cosmopolitanism in China and the rest of the world and offer a new construction of this controversial concept mainly from a literary and cultural perspective. Then it deals with the internationalizing process of modern Chinese literature with regard to cosmopolitanism. It argues that, in China’s recent past, to talk about cosmopolitanism from a literary point of view was nothing but to identify Chinese literature with Western literature. But now with the advent of globalization, the rapid development of Chinese economy, and Mo Yan’s 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, the dynamic is becoming mutual. As such, cosmopolitanism has once again become significant to China’s literature and culture. The success of Mo Yan largely lies in his appropriate handling of the fundamental problems Chinese people are confronted with in a broad cosmopolitan context with regard to human concerns at large. About the speaker: Wang Ning is Changjiang Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Tsinghua University and Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. He was elected to the Academy of Latinity in 2010 and to Academia Europaea in 2013. Apart from his numerous books and articles in Chinese, he has author two monographs in English: Globalization and Cultural Translation (2004), and Translated Modernities: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on Globalization and China (2010). He has also published extensively in such prestigious international journals as New Literary History, Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, Comparative Literature Studies, Narrative, Neohelicon, Semiotica, Modern Language Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, Telos, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and Journal of Contemporary China.