By Xu Xinlei, Dane Claussen, and Liu Jia
Original from http://en.shisu.edu.cn/news/2014/2014,news,003514.shtml
Organized by SISU’s Institute of Literary Studies and Foreign Literature Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the Literary World of Modernism and Modernism in World Literature Seminar attracted more than 150 scholars from Russia, United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan, the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
“It is high time to reflect on Modernist literature as globalization of capital is deviating us from the original essence of modernism,” said Chen Zhongyi, Director of Chinese Foreign Literature Institute of CASS.
During the seminar, nine groups of scholars discussed topics including the category and origin of Modernism, Modernist poetry, Modernist literature in Western, Middle and Eastern Europe, Modernist literature in the USA and Asia and Modernism in other art forms and cultures. Two round-table meetings were designed for dialog between the East and the West on the past, present and future of Modern Literature studies.
SISU Vice President Feng Qinghua stressed the significance of holding such an international conference in Shanghai, where China started its modernization. Prestigious scholars such as Vadim Polonskiy, Vice Director of Institute of World Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences; Levenson Michael, President of Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia; and Wu Xiaodu, Vice Director of Foreign Literature Institute of CASS, also spoke at the opening ceremony.
The two-day seminar was co-hosted by the Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia; and Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
