A Poet's Journey to the Yellow Mountains

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at The George Washington University presents a talk by Jonathan Chaves on his experience lecturing on classical Chinese poetry and painting at Shanghai University, as well as his research at the libraries and museums of Anhui Province.

Subnational Asia Lecture Series

Jonathan Chaves
Professor of Chinese, The George Washington University

Professor Chaves will discuss his experience lecturing on classical Chinese poetry and painting at Shanghai University, as well as his research at the libraries and museums of Anhui Province, where he discovered previously unknown poems and other writings about the famed Yellow Mountains. His trip to the Yellow Mountains will be illustrated with personal pictures, and he will introduce the work of photographer Wang Wusheng, his traveling companion at the time.

Jonathan Chaves obtained his PhD in Chinese Literature from Columbia University. He is best known today for his translations of classical Chinese poetry, which have been nominated for the National Book Award, and have won the 1998 Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize (for work on Chinese-language poetry by Japanese authors). He has also studied the relationship between poetry and painting in China, and was invited to guest-curate the show, The Chinese Painter as Poet at The China Instituted in America (New York) in 2000.

Please RSVP at go.gwu.edu/ChavesOct19 by Tuesday, October 18, 2011.