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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ding Xiang Warner\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, 
 Cornell University\n\nAbstract: The usual procedures of the scholar of Chin
 ese poetry\, when asking the question “What is the meaning of this Chinese 
 poem?\,” are familiar and generally reliable. Whether we ask the question a
 bout a poem’s “original meaning\,” a meaning intended by its author\, or ab
 out the meanings that accrued to the poem in its reception by readers over 
 time\, the meanings for which the poem earned a “place” in Chinese literary
  tradition\, there are rich scholarly resources and time-tested methodologi
 cal tools that help us to work out answers\, even if tentatively. How\, tho
 ugh\, is the task of the literary historian complicated\, how are the meani
 ngs of a Chinese poem affected\, when it and its Chinese readers are “uproo
 ted” from their native land\, transported out of their cultural milieu into
  another? This presentation takes up these questions by way of examining en
 graved Chinese poems found on WWI trench art made by Chinese volunteer work
 ers on the Western Front in Europe as opportunities for expanding study of 
 classical Chinese poetry outside its expected contexts.\n\nAbout East Asia 
 Program\n\nAs Cornell’s hub for research\, teaching\, and engagement with E
 ast Asia\, the East Asia Program (EAP) serves as a forum for the interdisci
 plinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia. The program draws i
 ts membership of over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty\, gra
 duate\, and undergraduate students from eight of Cornell’s 12 schools and c
 olleges.
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LOCATION:Rockefeller Hall\, 374\, Asian Studies Lounge
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SUMMARY:From War Waste to Cultural Legacy:  The Role of Chinese Poetry in W
 WI Trench Art
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/from-war-waste-to-cultural-legacy-the-
 role-of-chinese-poetry-in-wwi-trench-art
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