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Documentary Screening and Q&A with Distinguished Chinese Writer Bai Xianyong (Kenneth Pai)

The Center for East Asian Studies at the Department of Asian Studies at UT will host a screening of the documentary, “General Bai Chongxi and the February 28 Incident” and seminar by Professor Bai Xianyong (Kenneth Pai).

When:
October 23, 2015 2:00pm to 3:30pm
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Professor Bai Xianyong (Kenneth Pai) is one of the most distinguished contemporary Chinese fiction writers and a leading figure in Taiwan’s Modernist literary movement of the 1960s, whose work has been widely read in Taiwan, Mainland China, and the Chinese diaspora.
 
The documentary is a rare disclosure of tumultuous events surrounding February 28 Incident in Taiwan in 1947.  General Bai Chongxi, Professor Bai Xianyong’s late father and a famous Nationalist general during the Sino-Japanese war and the Chinese civil war, played a significant, yet insufficiently known, role in the aftermath of this tragic event.
 
The screening and Q&A section is open to all UT students and the public.
 
Please note, however, this recently produced documentary does not have English subtitle.

Cost: 
Free and Open to the Public
Phone Number: 
(512) 471-5811