Campus Digest

Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology holds first international conference on fu genre

10 Mar 2016

Professor David Knechtges delivers his paper Professor David Knechtges delivers his paper
Professor David Knechtges delivers his paper

 

The HKBU Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology held the first international conference devoted to the fu genre, entitled “Forum on Fu Poetics” on 27 and 28 February 2016.

 

A total of 14 eminent scholars from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States came together to give talks on “the definition of the fu genre” and fu in different dynasties with a view to establishing the role of the fu genre in Chinese literary and cultural history.

 

Distinguished speakers included Professor David Knechtges from the Department of Asian Language & Literature, University of Washington, Professor Stephane Feuillas from East Asian Civilisations Research Centre, and Professor Cheng Yu-yu from the Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University.