{"id":161,"date":"2021-11-05T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/?p=161"},"modified":"2021-11-05T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:24:15","slug":"sca-talk-contemporary-chinese-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/sca-talk-contemporary-chinese-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"SCA talk &#8211; Contemporary Chinese literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Scotland\u2013China Association Zoom talk, Tuesday, 9 November, 7:15pm.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Speaker:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Frances Weightman, Leeds University<\/p><p><strong>Subject:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cContemporary Chinese literature \u2013 engaging UK-based readers\u201d<\/p><p>As discussions of Chinese politics, economy and culture are becoming increasingly mainstream in the UK, what about Chinese literature? What kinds of literary works are being written (and read) in China today, and how do we persuade UK-based publishers and readers to move out of their comfort zones \u2013 beyond the Classics and the Cultural Revolution memoirs \u00a0\u2013 and to engage with the dynamic range of writing being produced in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century? Using the experience of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk\/\">Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing<\/a>\u00a0as a case study, Frances will attempt to give a preliminary overview of what seems to be most, and least, successful.<\/p><p>Frances is Associate Professor, East Asian Studies School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, Leeds University.\u00a0To attend the Zoom talk, contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sine@scotchina.org\"><a href=\"mailto:d.finlayson@scotchina.org\">d.finlayson@scotchina.org<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland\u2013China Association Zoom talk, Tuesday, 9 November, 7:15pm.\u00a0 Speaker:\u00a0\u00a0Frances Weightman, Leeds University Subject:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cContemporary Chinese literature \u2013 engaging UK-based readers\u201d As discussions of Chinese politics, economy and culture are becoming increasingly mainstream in the UK, what about Chinese literature? What kinds of literary works are being written (and read) in China today, and how do we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wptest.scotchina.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}