Lu Xun, Murakami Haruki, and Wong Karwai: A Genealogy of “Ah Q” image in the East Asian Literature and Films

Lu Xun, Murakami Haruki, and Wong Karwai: A Genealogy of "Ah Q" image in the East Asian Literature and Films

Fujii Shozo - Professor, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo

Monday, April 30, 2007 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 6511

The lecture will be about the afterlife of Lu Xun’s “Ah Q”–as may be seen in the reincarnations of Ah Q in MURAKAMI Haruki’s (1949-) fiction and Wong Karwai’s film. All these rewritings of the image of Ah Q have touched on our search for new cultural identities.

Region: 
China