The US-China Peoples Friendship Association, Atlanta Chapter, and the China Research Center, will co-sponsor a Meet the Authors Forum, which will be held in Lower Evans Hall on the Agnes Scott College campus, 141 East College Avenue, Decatur, GA 30030, at 4:00 p.m. on April 17, 2005. This event is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the McDonough Street deck.
Two Associates of the China Research Center will discuss their recently published books and lead a discussion on these important topics.
Professor Rong Cai of Emory University has studied the presentation of the self in recent Chinese literature. Her book, The Subject of Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature,published by the University of Hawaii Press, looks at the ways Chinese writers have portrayed individuals in post-revolutionary society.
Professor Fei-ling Wang of Georgia Tech has investigated China's household registration (hukou) system. His book,Organizing Through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System, was released by Stanford University Press in January. As the title suggests, Professor Wang discovered both positive and negative features of this system of Chinese social organization.
Following the event, everyone is invited to a Dutch-treat dinner at the New Century Restaurant on Scott Boulevard just south of the intersection with North Decatur Road. Contact: Peggy Roney, President, USCPFA-Atlanta Chapter; 404-292-0714; p309@bellsouth.net
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.