【Chinese Culture Colloquium】Lu Xun and his Reasoning Style

Topic: Lu Xun and his Reasoning Style

Speaker: Jiande Lu

Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017

Time: 16:15-17:30

Venue: Governing Board Meeting Room, Dao Yuan Building

Language: Chinese

Speaker Profile：

Mr. Jiande Lu, a Ph.D degree holder of Cambridge University. Former director of the Institute of Literature and vice director of the Institute of Foreign Literature of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; former chief editor of World Literature Recent Developments and Foreign Literature Review; currently serving as chief editor of Literature Review. He has long been engaged in research on English literature and modern history of China. His works cover collections on the history of English literature and thought, introduction to foreign novelists and western theorists, and cultural and political commentaries.

Abstract：

Lu Xun is an iconic literary figure, producing huge impact on China in the 60s or 70s with his Za Wen, or satirical essays. The style employed in writing these essays is so unique that the English term “essay” fails to convey accurately the prowess of his writings. It is the speaker’s wish to boost the study on Lu Xun through discussing the etymology of that term against the backdrop of Lu Xun’s approaches to reasoning.