Matters Season 5 "Free Class" Clubhouse Lecture 4｜Mysterious speakers, Bai Ruiwen, Deng Xiaohua: Writing is to love life

At 1:00 pm on Saturday, March 13th (East Eighth District), we will hold the fourth lecture of this season "Writing and Freedom: Writing is Love of Life" in the Clubhouse. The speaker is Bai Ruiwen, a famous modern Chinese literature and film scholar and translator (Michael Berry), a famous Hong Kong writer Deng Xiaohua, and a heavy surprise guest.

Professor Bai Ruiwen (Michael Berry) is currently teaching at UCLA. He is a very important and active Chinese literature translator and cultural researcher. In 2020, he translated Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary (Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City). He wrote in the translator's postscript: "Reading "Wuhan Diary" is like walking into a time tunnel, because I saw many things that happened in Wuhan a few months ago, and the United States is also happening." Professor Bai Ruiwen's previous translations include Wang Anyi's "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai", Yu Hua's "To Live: A Novel", Ye Zhaoyan's "Nanjing 1937: A Love Story", etc.

The other speaker is a well-known cultural person in Hong Kong, the writer Deng Xiaohua, who is the most important linker of integrating local literature into the public. In 2006, he founded the literary magazine "Zihua", insisting on witnessing the changes of Hong Kong literature for more than ten years. At the same time, this magazine is also a part of the distinctive and rebellious character of Hong Kong literature. In addition to literary promotion, her focus on public issues is also typical among writers. As the chief curator of the Hong Kong Museum of Literature, she is very energetic and imaginative. She convenes writers to write about land, space, and society, and grasp people's memories and identities of living spaces.

The heavyweight mysterious speaker is an actor who deeply cultivates text and image memory. His life experience is legendary enough. I believe he will bring many shocks and thoughts to the audience during the discussion.

"Writing and freedom" seems to be the destined theme of Matters. Matters has a slogan that keeps appearing-"writing is the smallest unit of freedom", using written records to carry the relationship between individuals and individuals, individuals and society, and individuals and history. How individuals and history are recorded has great significance for the present and the future. How do writers view "writing" and why do they write? If we can all think about this issue, then in a certain sense, this kind of writing is sheltering, developing, and repairing the rough shell of history, looking for doors on the walls.

As you can see, this talk will take place in Clubhouse. Clubhouse is a public discussion platform that appeals to voices. In addition to the sharing of speakers, we hope to truly hear you, everyone sincerely telling stories about practical writing and achieving freedom through writing. You can directly open the microphone to ask questions. Multiple discussions.

Matters has established an official club in the clubhouse, welcome to join us, there will be lectures held here from time to time: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/join/mattersnews-Matt City/pdSL0tqy

The lecture "Writing and Freedom: Writing is Love of Life" will start at 1:00 p.m. on March 13 (Saturday), East Eighth District. The event link is: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/M8AZNjlR

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