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Influential Chinese Writer and Poet Zhao Lihong visits UCC.
17.02.2011

Mr Zhao Lihong, one of China's most gifted poets and authors, will visit UCC today to  deliver a lecture  and a seminar  to UCC staff and students. The topic of the lecture is “The  Changes in Chinese Literature over the Last 30 Years”. The topic of the Seminar is “Poetry is the Depiction of the Heart”. Both lecture and seminar will be held in  Brookfield Health Sciences Complex  in the afternoon  (1pm and 3.30pm). 

The events are jointly organised by the UCC School of Asian Studies and the Munster Literature Centre.

Zhao Lihong was born in Shanghai in 1952. He started writing in 1970 and graduated in Chinese literature from the East China Normal University. Zhao currently holds several positions: Director of the China Writers’ Association, vice-president of the Shanghai Writers’ Association, Member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the publisher of Shanghai Literature, a monthly magazine, and editor-in-chief of Shanghai Poets, a bi-monthly journal. He is also a guest professor with East China Normal University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

 Zhao has published more than 70 works in poetry, prose and report literature. His writings have influenced many new writers and he has won several literary awards. A number of his works are part of the Chinese primary and secondary schools and college syllabus. His works have been translated into several languages.



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