In How I Started to Write Novels, Lu Xun explained how he started writing novels, but he did not explicitly mention how he started writing Ye Cao. This lecture aims to imagine as concretely and realistically as possible how the writer Lu Xun started writing the prose poetry collection in Beijing a hundred years ago.

Time: 9:00, September 9, 2024

Venue: Conference Room 200, Humanities Building

Speaker: Ito Noriya, Professor of the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo. His research interests include modern Chinese literature and comparative modern cultural history between Japan and China.

Host: Song Shengquan, Associate Professor of the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China