At the 4:30pm, 13thApril, 2015, Prof. Gu Yuanqing from Zhongnan University of Econonics and Law, deliverid a wonderful speech on the topic of “Taiwan’s Contemporary Culture and Politics” in the classroom X8607. This lecture was sponsored by the GraduateSchoolof Southwest Jiaotong University, and organized by theSchoolofArtsand Communication and the base of Traditional Chinese Classical Popularity. Professor Wang Qiming, the Director of Department of Chinese Language and Literature chaired this lecture.
Gu Yuanqing is famous as a director of Taiwan and Hong Kong Literature Institute, the Vice President of International Yanhuang Culture Research Association, and the Vice Chairman of Chinese New Literature Association. He also once was the visiting Professor of Chinese University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and he published more than 20 monographs in Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places, such asHong Kong LiteratureandChinese Contemporary Literary Theory Criticism Historyand so on, which had produced a wildspread influnce. So he was regard as the first person to try intergrating the histories of comtemporary literary theories of Chinese mailand, TaiwanandHong Kong.In 2002, the debate between letter of man Gu Yuanqing and Yu Qiuyu was considered bySingapore’s “Lianhe Zaobao” as the most recent Chinese cultural hot thing which caused a huge stir and concern in the global Chinese world.
Prof. Gu Yuanqing proposededutainment so that he started his topic with two interesting stories, encouraged students to create and search, and engaged in the scholarship with fun. He discussed the comtemporary politics and culture of Taiwanfrom these five parts: educational culture, media culture and so on, and every part was proved with several little interesting stories and humorous speech that produced a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere.
Students not only learned about Taiwai’s politics and culture, but also the way of edutainment which would make a lifelong benefit for students.
Text by Wang Liping
