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GLOBAL CHINA HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES
從「驚天動地」到「寂天寞地」:陳寅恪、唐君毅與隱微寫作
Prof. David Der-wei WANG, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University; IAS Senior Visiting Fellow
Date : 24 May 2021 (Monday)
Time : 9:00 - 10:30 am (HKT)
Venue : Online via Zoom
Organizer:HKUST Global China Center
Remarks:This event will be conducted in Putonghua.

Abstract (Chinese only)

一九四九年中華人民共和國成立,知識分子面臨重大抉擇。陳寅恪南下廣州,唐君毅輾轉來到香港。五十年代兩人治學方向都有微妙轉圜:陳寅恪研究《再生緣》及柳如是傳奇,唐君毅則在《中國文化之精神價值》中評鑒傳統戲曲及說部。世變之際,文學成為兩人觀照歷史、辯證思想的方法。陳寅恪自謂頌紅妝之事,以待來者;唐君毅更藉《水滸傳》反省生命從「驚天動地」到「寂天寞地」的道理。他們字裡行間所留下的暗碼系統,召喚我們在不同的時代作出不同的解讀。

 

About the speaker

Prof. David Wang obtained his BA in Foreign Languages and Literature from National Taiwan University in 1976, and his MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1978 and 1982 respectively. He taught at National Taiwan University (1982-1986) and Columbia University (1990-2004). He first joined Harvard University in 1986, serving as an Assistant Professor of Chinese for four years. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2004, when he was named Edward C. Henderson Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Currently he holds a joint appointment in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of Comparative Literature, and is also the Director of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology based at Harvard.

Prof. Wang’s research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, late Qing fiction and drama; comparative literary theory; colonial and modern Taiwanese fiction, and Asian American and diasporic literature; plus Chinese intellectuals and artists in the mid-20th century. His recent publications include Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory (co-edited with Ping-hui Liao, 2007), Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society) (co-edited with Jing Tsu, 2010), The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis (2014) and A New Literary History of Modern China (2015).

Prof. Wang was elected Academician of Academia Sinica in 2004 and awarded the Changjiang Scholar Award in 2008. In 2020, he was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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