"Tradition and Modernity: Comparative Perspectives," the first literature conference co-hosted by Yale and Peking University, was held March 7-9 in Beijing, China.
The event was sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the President's Office of Yale, as well as the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture, the English department and the President's Office of Peking University. It was organized by Professors Kang-i Sun Chang and Michael Holquist of Yale and Yan Shaodang and Meng Hua of Peking University, and coordinated by Abbey Newman of Yale and Zhang Hui of Peking University.
Comparative and interdisciplinary in nature, the conference touched on many issues related to tradition and modernity, including topics such as memory and text, canonization and commentary, official and vernacular canons, representations of war and revolution, tradition and realism, translation and transformation, image and imagination, psychoanalysis, and library resources.
Sixteen participants from Yale presented papers at the conference: Jeffrey Alexander, Dudley Andrew, Kang-i Sun Chang, Wai Chee Dimock, Ellen H. Hammond, Christopher Hill, Michael Holquist, Edward Kamens, Charles Laughlin, Jane A. Levin, Haun Saussy, Elise Snyder, John Treat, Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Jay Winter and Christopher S. Wood. Also participating was James Tweedie, a former postdoctoral associate in the Crossing Borders Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies who is now a faculty member at the University of Washington.
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