Chinese

The event will feature a series of students-led performances , interactive cultural activities, and short presentations that showcase Chinese language, music, and traditions. The goal of this event is to celebrate the end of the semester, promote intercultural understanding and provide the MIIS community with an immersive experience of Chinese culture! 

Aku Wuwu is a poet of the Yi ethnic group, one of the largest ethnic minority groups in southwest China. His poems, mixing traditional and contemporary imagery, often inspired by visions and dreams, are written in Northern Yi and Mandarin. He says he is a “cultural hybrid” who writes in “two mother tongues.” Professor Mark Bender of The Ohio State University specializes in traditional Chinese performance literature.

Aku Wuwu is a poet of the Yi ethnic group, one of the largest ethnic minority groups in southwest China. His work is characterized by a mix of traditional and contemporary imagery, often including visions and dreams. He says he is a “cultural hybrid” who writes in “two mother tongues.” He will read a selection of his poems in both the Northern Yi language and Mandarin.

Poet, author, playwright and filmmaker Yu Jian is from Kunming, China and is of the generation whose lives were disrupted by the Cultural Revolution. A factory worker when he began to write poetry, Yu Jian graduated from Yunnan University and has published seventeen books. His biographer, Simon Patton, writes, “Yu Jian’s down-to-earthness can be understood as an attempt to resist both the orthodox optimism of the older generation and the exaggerated individualism of his own.