Panel Discussion on Contemporary Chinese Literature

This panel discussion which is jointly hosted by the Writing & Society Research Centre and the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, will open with the sounds of the Chinese language with some poems read by a Chinese poet, essayist and translator Xi Chuan, followed by their translation by Eric Abrahamsen who comes from Seattle, USA, and has been living and working as a reporter, editor, translator and publishing consultant in China since 2001. Giuseppa Tamburello who is a senior lecturer at the University of Palermo in Italy, will then discuss contemporary Chinese literature, and the other speakers will reflect on the translation process and on the writing of poetry. This will be followed by questions from the floor.