A Tribute to Dr. Chung-wen Shih, 1922-2014, with film showing of Return from Silence: China's Revolutionary Writers

The Siguer Center for Asian Studies honors the late Dr. Cheng-wen Shih (1922-2014) with a panel discussion, audience tributes, and a film showing.

Panel Discussion: A Celebration of Dr. Shih's Life and Works (20 minutes)
Audience Tributes (10 minutes)
Film Showing: Return from Silence: China's Revolutionary Writers (1982, 60 minutes)

A wreath will be placed at Professor’s Gate in memory of Professor Shih, who passed away on July 6, 2014. We invite you to stop by and pay your respects. The gate is located left of the entrance to the Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street NW.

About the Film. Return from Silence: China’s Revolutionary Writers (1982) explores the lives and careers of five of China's major literary talents, all of whom were severely affected by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). These exceptional individuals survived to see a restoration of their former reputations. The film celebrates their endurance and their faith in a just world. Interviews conducted by Chung-wen Shih are intercut with archival footage, old photographs and pre-revolutionary movies.

Chung-wen Shih, Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language and Literatures. Professor Shih received her Ph.D. in English Literature at Duke University and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies at Harvard University. She was Assistant Professor of Chinese at Stanford University before joining the faculty at The George Washington University, where she was Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures for over 20 years. Professor Shih’s books on classical Chinese drama, Injustice to Tou O (Cambridge University Press) and The Golden Age of Chinese Drama (Princeton University Press), are standard reference texts. Her interactive multimedia CD, Learn Chinese from Modern Writers, and the companion book have provided a new approach to Chinese language instruction. Her film documentaries, Return from Silence, on China’s modern writers and China's Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang, on the ancient Tang culture, have been broadcast nationally on PBS in the United States and by the National Central Television Station in China. Both documentaries have been used extensively in colleges and universities. To learn more about Dr. Shih, go to to http://eall.columbian.gwu.edu/chung-wen-shih.

To attend, please RSVP by September 29 HERE.