Dear Colleagues,
On March 29, the novelist Yan Lianke will give a lecture on the writing of his novel The Explosion Chronicles. The lecture will be in Chinese, accompanied by English translation. We hope you will consider attending and help spread the word about this exceptional opportunity to meet one of the greatest writers of today’s China.
You can register for the lecture here. The lecture is generously sponsored by the Hightower Fund, the Confucius Institute in Atlanta, and the East Asian Studies Program at Emory University.
Maria Sibau
Guangchen Chen
About the Speaker
Yan Lianke is one of today’s foremost Chinese novelists. His writings capture the stunning development of China in recent decades with remarkable insight, imagination, courage, and irony, throwing into stark relief pressing social issues such as the stigmatization of illness, pandemics and economic inequality, women’s struggle, and the consequences of over-development. His major works include Dream of Ding Village, The Day the Sun Died, The Explosion Chronicles, Serve the People!, and The Ladies. He has garnered a number of major international awards, including the Lu Xun Literary Prize (awarded twice), the Franz Kafka Prize, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, and most recently the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.