By Clare Yow on Oct 14, 2016
This Oct and November, attend new Chinese and Japanese-language book clubs, combined in partnership between Asian Library and alumniUBC. The events are an event for alumni, current students, and other meddlesome village members with modernized fluency in Chinese or Japanese, to form ties with others in their particular literary communities.
Each book bar offers a apart accommodate and hail and contention during a cost of $10 per chairman for both events. The cost includes a duplicate of a book distributed during Session 1 and light refreshments. More information can be found on a Asian Library’s website.
Chinese Language Book Club
Book selection:《中外文學交流史 中國-加拿大卷》Literary Interactions between China and Canada by Dr. Lai Fong Leung
Discussion facilitator: Dr. Lai Fong Leung, MA’۷۶, PHD’۸۶
The book Literary Interactions between China and Canada is one of a 17 volume plan “Literary Interactions between China and Foreign Countries” constructed by Shandong Education Press. This 450,000-word book is a initial work to try a subject and it lays a substructure for destiny studies. The book, mostly formed on primary sources, recreates a racial Chinese village as a informative community from a mid-19th century to a present.
Japanese Language Book Club
Book selection: ねむりNemuri by Haruki Murakami
Discussion Facilitator: Kazuhiko Imai, MA student in a UBC Department of Asian Studies
Haruki Murakami is an internationally acclaimed author best famous for dissolving bounds between a fantastical and real. Yet this brief story is rather closely psychological, while a surrealistic feel is undoubtedly benefaction in a backdrop. Accompanied by interpretive illustrations by a German artist Kat Menschik, this brief story, ね むり Nemuri (“Sleep”), was regenerated in 2010, after Murakami himself reworked a strange chronicle published some-more than twenty years ago.
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