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We are delighted to welcome you to the Symposium on Cantonese Opera in Global Context, organised by Dr Xunnan Li as part of our collaboration with the Cantonese Opera Research Centre at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, together with scholars and practitioners from around the world. This mini-symposium focuses on the translation, cultural industrialisation, artistic creation,...
A major convention of poets from China and the UK, for three full days of poetry readings, discussion roundtables, translation workshops and cultural exchange. The UK side is co-organised by Poetry@Leeds, the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, and the Global Research Development Office. Participating poets in the Leeds/UK delegation include Kimberly Campanello, John Whale,...
This year's symposium takes a broad view of Chinese children's literature in Anglophone contexts, and features a keynote and roundtables with academics, authors, translators, publishers, and others involved in the field. Please note that this event is invitation-only Symposium Schedule Friday 3rd October Keynote Presentation: Prof Zhao Xia The re-imagination of childhood ethics in contemporary...
This year's symposium is generously supported by Spotlight Taiwan and the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, and in collaboration with the National Museum of Taiwan Literature and the Association for Taiwan Literature. This year, we're delighted to be welcoming speakers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US, and the UK, for two days of talks and roundtables which...
This year, our symposium is focusing on Chinese genre fiction. We'll be exploring what genres mean, and how they are useful, looking at the stories being written, translated and read. We'll be joined by authors, translators, publishers, and academics, for presentations and roundtable discussion. There will also be a public event on the Friday evening,...
This year, our symposium is focusing on non-Han literature and film, supported by a MEITS (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies) grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The symposium is entitled ‘Space to Speak: Non-Han Fiction and Film in China and Beyond’, and will look at the ways in which writers and directors are finding space for...
To coincide with the awarding of the most recent Hans Christian Andersen Award to Chinese children's author Cao Wenxuan, we held a special day-long event on children's fiction in Chinese. We were delighted to welcome Minjie Chen, expert on Chinese children’s literature, and librarian at Princeton University, to give our key-note speech. And we...
As the culmination of the first year of our project we held a series of fabulously interesting roundtables, bringing together writers, translators, publishers, academics and others working in the publishing field to further the dialogue about new writing from China. The symposium structure followed the journey of a story from its origins in the imaginations...