Date: 29-30 October 2015
Co-organizers:
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University
Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University
Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Foreign Literature
Soochow Academic Journal
Title: Literature and Locale – “An International Symposium on the Literary Works of Jia Pingwa”
Speakers:
JIA Pingwa
Manuel Pavón BELIZÓN (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Eugene EOYANG Chen (Indiana University / Lingnan University)
Christopher MATTISON (Zephyr Press & Jintian series of contemporary literature and HKAtlas)
Carlos ROJAS (Duke University)
Shinichiro SHIOHATA (Komazawa University)
XIAO Jiwei (Fairfield University)
Jessica YEUNG (Hong Kong Baptist University)
ZHANG Xuexin (Liaoning Normal University
Respondents:
LO Kwai-cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University)
XU Zidong (Lingnan University)
YAU Waiping (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Title: Literature and Locale – “A FIVE Cornered Conversation”
Participating Writers:
CHAN Koonchung
JIA Pingwa
Memtimin HOSHUR
SU Tong
Pema TSEDAN
Respondents:
LONG Renqing
Maialen MARÍN-LACARTA (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Martin MERZ
Sabastian VEG