Chinese oral storytelling:«Wu Song fights the tiger» in Chinese literary tradition.

This symposium will focus on Chinese oral storytelling and censorship related to the textual culture of storytelling, exemplified through the Ming-dynasty novel, Jin Ping Mei.

The storytelling tradition and Jin Ping Mei shares a plot that can be traced back to the 14^th century story «Wu Song fights the tiger».  Jin Ping Mei is considered one of the absolute masterpieces of Chinese literary tradition and has recently been translated to Danish by Vibeke Børdahl, the first translation into a Scandinavian language. In the first part of the symposium two professional storytellers will perform parts of the «Wu Song fights the tiger» story, both in English and in Chinese.

The second part will see international researchers discuss various aspects of the Wu Song story and the novel Jin Ping Mei, including translation and censorship.

Program:

• Introduction
  By senior researcher, Ph.D., Dr. Phil. Vibeke Børdahl
• Performance: Fighting the Tiger in European Storytelling
  By the French artist and storyteller, Abbi Patrix, founder of Compagnie du Cercle (in English)
• Chinese Storytelling: Highlights from the Wu Song Saga
  By master-teller Ma Wei, from the Wang school of Wang Shaotang, representing a 400-year-old Yangzhou tradition (in Chinese)
• Short break
• Wu Song Fights the Tiger in Chinese Ballad
  By professor Margaret Wan, University of Utah, USA
• Jin Ping Mei – Translations and Circumlocusions
  By Dr. Lintao Qi, Senior Lecturer of Translation Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
• Jin Ping Mei – Four Hundred Years of Cencorship
  By professor emerita Marja Kaikkonen, Stockholm University
• Jin Ping Mei in Danish Translation
  By publisher Søren Møller Christensen, Vandkunsten Press

Free and open for all.
Welcome!

Foto: Shuihu zhuan shuoshu.org , Søren Møller Christensen og Vibeke Børdahl.