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Lecture: "Touched with a Coal from Heaven: Wu Li and the First Chinese Christian Poetry"
March 17, 2008 ( 04:30PM - 06:00PM )
- Sponsor(s): Department of Theology
- Location: Room 125, DeBartolo Hall
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Chaves, George Washington University.
Jonathan Chaves, long recognized as a leading scholar and translator of Chinese poetry, has in recent years turned his attention to the neglected subject of the presence of Christianity in traditional Chinese literary culture. He will share some of his work on the eminent painter and literatus Wu Li (1632-1718), convert to Christianity and Jesuit priest, who was also the first to render themes of Christian faith and theology in the forms of classical Chinese poetry.