Title: Chinese Modern Literature as Material Culture

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Chinese Modern Literature as Material Culture

Title: Chinese Modern Literature as Material Culture

Speaker: Chen Yuanping

Time: 9:30, Nov. 13

Venue: Library Lecture Hall

About the Speaker

Chen Pingyuan

• 1954: born in Chaozhou, Guangdong;

• 1982: obtained his bachelor of Arts degree from Sun Yan-sen University;

• 1984: obtained his master degree in literature from Sun Yan-sen University;

• 1987: received his doctorate in literature from Peking University; and one of the first two Ph.D doctors in literature at Peking University;

• 2008-2012: Dean of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University.

• Now: professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University; currently academic consultant, Nanfang College of Sun Yan-sen University.

  He has been awarded with the title “Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor” of the Ministry of Education. Chen now serves as a researcher of Central Research Institute of Culture and History and a member of Discipline Review Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.

He has once worked at the universities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Columbia, Heidelberg, and London, Harvard, among others. From 2008 to 2015, he was a visiting professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (jointly recruited by Peking University).

Chen is one of today’s most prominent Chinese literature professors and writers and a vocal critic of modern China’s tertiary-education system. He has obtained many awards:

• “Outstanding Chinese Doctor” conferred by the National Education Commission and the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council (1991)

• Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award of Tertiary Education (Humanities and Social Sciences) by the Ministry of Education five times (1995, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2013)

• The Ninth, Eleventh and Twelfth Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Philosophy and Social Sciences, Beijing (2006, 2010, 2012)

• Second Prize of the 3rd National Education and Science Excellence Research Award (2006)

• First Prize of the 1st and 2nd Wangyao Academic Awards for Outstanding Thesis (2002, 2006) and the 4th Wangyao Academic Award for Academic Works (2016)

  Selected Publications:

  Transformation in the Narrative Mode of Chinese Fiction

  The Literati’s Chivalric Dreams

  The History of Chinese Prose and Fiction

  The Establishment of Modern Scholarship in China

  Touches of History: An Entry into ‘May Fourth’ China

  The Rise and Spread of "New Culture"

  The Images of Late Qing Dynasty

  What Is the University?

  In addition, out of his pursuit of academic folkization, he co-edited the humanities collection – Scholars with his friends from 1991 to 2000, and he edited the academic collection – Modern China as editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2004.

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