On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, East Asian Curator Li Wang, Ph.D., will give a talk, “Publishing China 2016: A Curator’s Travel Report.” This event is free and open to the public. Coffee and cookies will be served.
In recent years, Li has delivered a series of presentations regarding his professional-business trips to China, including “Thinking Globally” (2009), “Touching the Mobile China” (2011), “Tracing Ancient Rarities and Riding Current Trends” (2014), and “Visual China 2015.” This summer he was invited to take three trips to Beijing, China again. The first two trips were mainly for participating in the events in honor of his late father, Professor Wang Zuoliang, a distinguished Chinese scholar in English literature, at Tsinghua University and Beijing Foreign Studies University, respectively. The Brown Library has received the newly published, 12-volume The Complete Works of Wang Zuoliang, donated by BFSU’s publishing house. Li served on the Expert Committee of this publication, in which a number of his father’s early works, including three English poems discovered from the John Hay Library’s Special Collections, have been incorporated. Besides, he also attended the “Tsinghua-Brown Symposium for Transnational Gender and Media” held in June at Tsinghua.
2016 Beijing International Book Fair
Li’s third trip was for attending the 2016 Beijing International Book Fair, one of the largest book trade events in the world. Besides selected and acquired new books from the BIBF hosted by the China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation, Li attended conferences, forums, exhibitions and tours in Beijing. This fruitful trip was a good opportunity further contact with book vendors, publishers, and libraries to understand the developments of global publishing and cultural exchanges. Upon his return, Li is going to give a new visual report on these trips, which includes a slide show selected from over 1,000 pictures taken there, a sample gift books exhibit, and several video pieces to demonstrate colorful Chinese cultural heritages and publishing trends.
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2016
Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence