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Cover Design: "Flying in the Rain," from The Art of the Gao Brothers of the Lingnan School (Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995); Calligraphy by Samuel Cheung. Dr. Jon Eugene von Kowallis, Head of the Department of Chinese and Indonesian Studies at UNSW was honored by a reception at the Association for Asian Studies' Annual Conference in San Francisco on 21 April 2006 marking the publication of his new monograph The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the 'Old Schools' during Late Qing and Early Republican China by the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
In the words of a reviewer, 'challenging the received view that late Qing classical poetry stood at the end of a long glorious tradition, Jon Kowallis argues that it actually marked the beginning of the modern era. Providing sensitive readings and fine translations of some major poets, this book makes an important contribution to the ongoing re-examination of Chinese modernity.'
The book examines for the first time in English the works and theories of three major schools of late 19th and early 20th century Chinese poetry. Dr. Kowallis' work argues that modernity in fact first entered Chinese lettres through the traditional vehicle of classical-style verse, a development that had been neglected by prior literary historians.
Dr. Kowallis also chaired a panel on "Understanding Chinese Prime-time Television Dramas" and read the paper "Lu Xun On Film," tracing the views of China's most important fiction writer of the 20th century on film and analyzing filmic adaptations of his works.
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