Peking University-Yale University Conference – Tradition and Modernity: Comparative Perspectives

The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to be co-sponsoring the Peking-Yale University Conference “Tradition and Modernity: Comparative Perspectives.” Sixteen Yale faculty members will visit Beijing from March 7 to 9, 2005 to participate in this international and interdisciplinary conference at Peking University. Development and collaboration for this conference began with Professors Kang-i Sun Chang (East Asian Languages and Literatures) and Michael Holquist (Comparative Literature), who worked closely with their colleagues at the Peking University Institute for Comparative Literature and Culture, Professors Meng Hua, Yan Shaodang, Zhang Hui, and Lin Qingxin. Panel topics to be covered during the conference include memory and text; canonization and commentary; official and vernacular canons of modernity; representations of war and revolution; tradition and realism; translation and transformation; image and imagination; psychoanalysis and related topics; and comparative perspectives on library resources. This conference is also generously supported by the President’s Office.