Video and photographs are now available from the September 26, 2017 event “Luminous Memories: Bei Dao in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger.”
During the sold-out event in Jerome Greene Hall, Bei Dao, widely recognized as the foremost poet of his generation, engaged essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger in a conversation about his newly published book, City Gate, Open Up, a lyrical memoir of his childhood and adolescence in Beijing. Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, introduced the event. Their talk was co-sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; the Huang and Lin Fund for the Program in Chinese Literature and Culture; the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; New Directions Publishing; the Department of English and Comparative Literature; the Writing Program of the Columbia University School of the Arts; and Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) of the Columbia University School of the Arts.
