Conference - 22nd Biennal of the EACS in Glasgow (panel "Transition and Continuity: Chinese Old Style Poetry in the Contemporary World")

From 29th august to 1st september 2018 the 22nd Biennal of the European Association for Chinese Studies will be hold at the University of Glasgow.

The DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Russian-Language Poetry in Transition” (FOR 2603) will be present with the panel.

Transition and Continuity: Chinese Old Style Poetry in the Contemporary World:

Chair: Christian Soffel

Discussant: Xiaobin Yang

Participants:

Huiru Liu: The Modernity of Du Fu’s Poetry: The Aesthetical Perception in his “jueju” in Comparison with “A Stir” by Durs Grünbein

Frank Kraushaar: The “Wilds of Poetry” and the Poetics of Bewilderment: Chinese Classics and Contemporary American Poetry in Comparison with xin jiuti shi 新旧体诗 (“New Old Style Poetry”)

Christian Soffel: Tradition, Transition and Transfer: Perspectives on the Odes to Great China (Da Zhonghua fu)

Rui Kunze: A Poetic Tradition for Everyone: The CCTV Competition of Classical Poetry