CCLC | Qu Yuan and Chuci
Event Name of event and organizer | Qu Yuan and Chuci, Centre for Chinese Language & Culture and NTU Chinese, School of Humanities, NTU. |
Date If held over multiple dates, please note too | 6, 7, 8, 10 August 2018 |
| Time | 10.00a.m.-4.00p.m. |
Venue Venue name + Unit number Insert address if outside HSS Building | Centre for Chinese Language and Culture Meeting Room (Chinese Heritage Centre Building, Level 1 ) |
Registration/ Information Registration link Open to students/faculty/public/private event | https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA18071910252756 |
| Event write-up | The four-day seminar on Qu Yuan 屈原 and the Chuci 楚辞 introduces the formation and early history of the Chuci anthology; surveys the history of Chuci scholarship and translation; reviews the critical methodological issues in the study of Qu Yuan mythology and nature of the Chuci anthology; and focuses on the close reading of the "Li sao" 离骚 in relation to both the "Jiu ge" 九歌 and the "Jiu zhang" 九章. In doing so, the seminar offers new conceptual and methodological approaches to the "Li sao" and its related texts. All readings are in the original classical Chinese; both premodern and modern commentaries will be provided, as well as the standard English translation. Students and faculty are expected to prepare all original Chuci readings before coming to class and to be ready to analyze and translate the original poetry into English. Classes will be conducted in English. |
Speaker /s Name and designation of speakers | Professor Martin Kern |
| Speaker profile/s (if any) | Martin Kern is the inaugural Joanna and Greg '84 P13 P18 Zeluck Professor in Asian Studies and the Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Since 2017, he also serves as Director of the "International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures" and as Xin'ao Distinguished Visiting Chair in the Humanities at Renmin University of China. Born and educated in Germany, he received his Ph.D in Sinology, German Literature, and Art History from Cologne University, Germany, in 1996. He taught at the University of Washington (1997-1998) and Columbia University (1998-2000) before moving to Princeton in 2000. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015. For the academic year 2018-19, he has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. |
Qu Yuan Chuci.pdf
