Guest Professorship of the Center for Intercultural Studies

From 24 June to 30 July, Professor Zhao Baisheng from the University of Peking will be guest professor of the Center for Intercultural Studies at Mainz. He will be affiliated with the Department of English and Linguistics and will offer a seminar and a series of lectures.

Seminar: Cross-culturalism – Toward a World Literature and Culture

Z. Baisheng (University of Peking)

Blockveranstaltung: Do, 16.15-17.45, Fr 13,15-14.45, PR 01-612 (Bibliothek II)

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This seminar explores the complex mechanism of the East-West border crossing and its cultural conse-quences. Such processes and movements as immigration, colonization, Westernization, Marxianization, globalization will be examined to demonstrate the ongoing shaping of a World Literature and Culture. The core texts include fictional works and life writings by Daniel Defoe, T. S. Eliot, Hu Shi, Patrick White, V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee, Maxine Hong Kingston. A reading list will be distributed in April. Attendance of the following lectures is required for those students who want to obtain a certificate ("Leistungsnachweis"). Number of participants: 20.

Registration: during office hours, R 01-638

Lecture Series

Z. Baisheng (University of Peking)

Fr 10.15-11, P 2

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Lectures:

1. Westernization: Reinterpreting the Intercultural Mission of 20th-Century China
2. Americanizing the Chinese Mind: A Case Study of Yung Wing and Hu Shi
3. Why Fa Mu Lan and Kwan Kung? On the Importance of Violence in Chinese American Literature
4. Please Quote Das Kapital: Marxism with Chinese Characteristics
5. China in Media: East and West