Last updated by kprzemek on 2017-06-14. Originally submitted by tomski on 2017-06-12.
The Department of Studies in Culture is honoured to invite everyone to a talk by Dr. Lorraine Wong from the University of Otago, New Zealand: "Chinese Latinization and its Communization of Writing" 13th June, 2017, at 11.30, room 601A.
Dr. Lorraine Wong is a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She received her BA in English from the University of Hong Kong, MPhil in Sociology from Cambridge University and Ph.D in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the global context as well as minor literatures written in non-Mandarin Chinese. She has published in both English and Chinese. Her work appears in Literature Compass, City on the Edge: Hong Kong, China, Boundaries and Borderland, and Journal of Hangzhou Normal University. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Script and Revolution in China’s Long Twentieth Century. Her talk at AMU is drawn from her analysis from this manuscript, and she will also present her work at the American Comparative Literature Association annual conference at Utrecht University.
