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Talk & Debate

Chinese Women: Now and Then

AULA

29 March 2023

Talk & Debate

Programme

20:00 - 20:30: Talk by Silvia Marijnissen on the legendary novel The Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼梦

20:30 - 21:30: Debate with Catherine Vuylsteke, Ching Lin Pang & Tom Van de Weghe

21:30 - 22:00: Q&A

22:00 - 23:00: Networking & reception

Literature Corner by Boekhandel Walry

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Catherine Vuylsteke

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Ching Lin Pang

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Tom Van de Weghe is a VRT journalist specializing in China and Asia. He learned Chinese and in 2007 founded the first correspondent bureau from Beijing. For five years he reported for VRT on the most important events and developments in the region. Van de Weghe became America correspondent and bureau chief in Washington DC until 2016. In recent years, as a research fellow at Stanford University, he has investigated the impact of technology on geopolitical relations between China, Europe and the US.

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Silvia Marijnissen (°1970) is a translator of Chinese-language literature. She translated novels by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan and Eileen Chang, modern poetry by many poets from China and Taiwan, and classical landscape poetry. Together with Anne Sytske Keijser and Mark Leenhouts, she translated the 18th-century classic De droom van de rode kamer (The dream of the red mansion), for which they received the Filter translation prize.


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