Events Update

 

“‘You deceived me—not by words, but by appearances’: First Impressions and Tragic Consequences in the Return of the Native, The Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure” 18^th International Thomas Hardy Conference. Dorchester, UK.  26^th July – 2^nd August 2008.

 

Twin-Sun River (a screenplay about an American Korean War POW who chose to go to China at the time of armistice). Staged Reading. Produced by Emmy-winning Louisa Burns-Bosogno and Ellen Muir. Directed by Pam McDaniel. National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences New York. 5:30 PM- 8:00 PM, March  24, 2008.

 

"History and the Novel: The Role of Literature in Understanding the Dynamics of Power." Honors Program Lecture. Harrisburg Area Community College. PA, March 26-27, 2008.

 

“Translating from Novel to Screenplay: Challenges and Pitfalls Merging Three Cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Western).” Seminar Lecture (Ellen Muir). National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences New York. 6:00PM-8:00PM, March 19, 2008.

 

“China Complex: Its Scarred History and Rising to Superpowerdom in Earthly Contexts.” Southington Rotary Club, CT. March 19, 2008.

 

Guest Teaching. “The Evidence” (a short story of mine). Eng 106 Intro to Fiction. Western Connecticut State University. March 05, 2008.

 

Guest Teaching. “Textual Analysis.” Western Connecticut Sate University Honors Program. October 31, 2007.

 

“Imagining Thomas Hardy in the Globalized World Today.” Hardy at Yale International Conference. June 14-17, 2007. Yale University, New Haven, CT. Sponsored by the Thomas Hardy Association.

--- Panel Organizer: “Thomas Hardy and the Globalized World.”

 

Featured Author Speaker. Kennedy Middle School Writing Contest. Southington, CT. Feb. 8, 2007.

 

Featured Speaker. “Impac[t]ing the World with Your Words”. 2006 IMPAC-Connecticut State University Young Writers Trust. Western Connecticut State University. April 27, 2006.

 

Featured Speaker. “Bridging the Pacific: A Personal Journey from a Different Shore.” Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Norwalk Community College, CT. April 27, 2006.

 

Featured Speaker. Connecticut Center for the Book's World of Words Program. Sponsored by Enfield Public Library, Enfield, CT. April 5, 2006.

 

Featured Author. Wildwood Writers Conference. Harrisburg Area Community College. Harrisburg, PA. March 31, 2006.

 

Featured Author. When the Purple Mountain Burns. Sponsored by Central Pennsylvania Chinese Association. Hershey, PA. November 19, 2005.

 

Featured Author. When the Purple Mountain Burns. "China Crosstalk," KTSF Channel 26, San Francisco, CA. October 28, 2005.

 

Public Reading/Book Signing: When the Purple Mountain Burns. Eastwind Bookstore, Berkeley, CA. October 28, 2005.

 

Paper Presentation and Panel. “Geopolitical Environment for Sustainable Development in China: Sino-Japan Relations, the Rape of Nanking, and Cause for Peace and Humanity.” The 11th International Conference, American Chinese Professors of Social Sciences.  October 28-30, 2005 at California State University-Fullerton, Los Angeles, CA.

 

Presenter/Workshop Leader. “Fact to Fiction: Challenges of Writing Fiction about Historical/Past Events” The Connecticut Writers’ Conference At Norwalk Community College. Norwalk, CT. October 20, 2005.

 

Featured Author. When the Purple Mountain Burns. Sponsored by Milford Senior Center Fall 2005 Lecture Series. Milford, CT. October 19, 2005.

 

Featured Author. When The Purple Mountain Burns. Sponsored by the MFA of the English Department and the University Library. Westside Campus, WCSU, August 3, 2005.

 

Featured Author. Presenting copies of When the Purple Mountain Burns in all three editions (English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese). Sponsored by the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre. Nanjing, China. June 14, 2005. 

 

Featured Author. The release of the Chinese edition of When the Purple Mountain Burns.  Shanghai, China. June 9, 2005. 

 

“Personal Essay and Memoir Writing Workshop/Process of Writing Panel/Writing the Journey Panel.” 2005 Connecticut State University Writing Conference at Central Connecticut State University, CT. April 29, 2005.

 

Guest Teaching. “Propaganda in China during The Mao Years.” CTA 263: Persuasion & Propaganda (Prof. Jeanne Christie), Western Connecticut Sate University. October 20, 2004.

 

Discussant. “Honors Seminar on the Last Effects of Colonialism on Contemporary Global Issues,” Western Connecticut Sate University Honors Program (Dr. Steven Ward), September 28, 2004.

 

Presentation/Discussion. “The Rape of Nanjing: Why don’t Americans know about this topic? What’s behind the crusade to forget in Japan? What’s the danger of collective amnesia?” Banned Books Week Series. Western Connecticut Sate University, September 27, 2004.

 

Public Reading. When The Purple Mountain Burns (work-in-progress). The Silo, New Milford, CT. May 16, 2004. 

 

Public Reading.  Sample chapters from When The Purple Mountain Burns. 2004 CSU Faculty Research Conference. Southern Connecticut Sate University SCSU, April 24, 2004.

 

“Strategies for Teaching Effective Revision Effectively.” Lecture. Summer Institute for College English Instructors, Shanghai, China. August 2-5, 2003.

Literary Reading. Personal Essays. The Silo, New Milford, CT. Sept. 8, 2002.

 

Featured Speaker. “Bridging the Pacific for a Mature and Stable Relationship.” Air Force Asian Science & Technology Forum (Session XII). Georgetown, Washington, DC. April 24, 2002.

 

Personal Essay Workshop. 2002 Connecticut State University Writing Conference. Eastern Connecticut Sate University, April 12, 2002.

 

Featured Writer. Wildwood Writers’ Conference. Harrisburg Area Community College, PA (reading and workshop), April 12, 2001.

 

Featured speaker (on my book Bridging the Pacific): The Jewish Community Center’s Senior Adult Club. Harrisburg, PA. November 30, 2000.

 

"Triple Jeopardy: Censoring and Self-Censoring in Writing, Rewriting, and Translating Bridging the Pacific." Biennual Conference for Contemporary Literary Translation: Tyrannies of the Target Language. Stevens Institute of Technology. Hoboken, New Jersey. Nov. 17th-19th, 2000.

 

“The In-laws Are Coming" and Other Writings, and Panelist on Writing and Technologies. 20th Wildwood Writers' Conference. Harrisburg, PA. March 25-26, 1999.

“Transient in the East" and Other Short Stories and Essays. 19th Wildwood Writers' Conference. Harrisburg, PA. March 24-25, 1998.

 

“Why Do These Flowers Blooming Inside the Garden Wall Smell More Fragrant to Passers-by Outside? A Cultural Study of Receptions of Contemporary Chinese Movies at Home and Abroad.” The Second Annual Conference on World Literature. Appalachian State University/University of North Carolina, April 25-6, 1997.

“Forever Behind: A Critical Narrative of a Half-Hearted Hardy Fan.” Thomas Hardy Conference. University of Georgia, May 5-7, 1995.

 

“Those Notorious Short Story Handbooks.” Annual Conference of 1993 American Culture Society in the South/Popular Culture Association in the South. Nashville, Oct., 1993.

 

“Towards Empowering Students: An Experiment in Reading/Writing.” The Third Symposium in Teaching Writing. Illinois State University, March, 1993.

 

“Shift of Emphasis in the American Short Story and the Cultural Institutions.” Text and Context: Ideological Tension in the Discipline. University of Missouri, Feb., 1993.