The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) is going to organize the 1st Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2021/2022) on 3 Dec 2021. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor FU Gang deliver a lecture on the topic “How do we understand pre-Qin literature and documents? (如何認識先秦文學與文獻).” Professor Fu is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts of Peking University, a leading scholar on pre-Qin literature, and President of the Chinese Wen Xuan Literary Research Association. His representative works include History of Poetry in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Research on the Selections of Refined Literature (Wen Xuan), Research on Editions of Wen Xuan, Commentary on the Biography of Xiao Tong (co-authored), New Songs from the Jade Terrace and Southern Dynasty, as well as Studies on Literature and Documents of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties.

Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Professor FU Gang
Date: 3 Dec 2021 (Friday)
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: Zoom
Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation in English)
Topic: How do we understand pre-Qin literature and documents?
The study of pre-Qin literature begins with solving the problem of documents. Unlike later dynasties, pre-Qin is divided into the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Eastern Zhou, and Warring States stages. In each stage, the nature and characteristics of the documents were different, and could not be summarized in general terms. There was no clear division of disciplines in the pre-Qin period, and the discipline of literature was not established; therefore, it is not possible to conduct research on the concept of post-Qin literature. In today’s academic research in literature, history, and philosophy, it is necessary to understand the nature and characteristics of pre-Qin literature.

The lecture will be conducted in Mandarin with simultaneous interpretation into English. Please register for the forum by 1 Dec 2021 (Wed) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9NVi6G3QVUBcK90

For more information, kindly refer to the below poster.