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Please register for the conference here
Please note the same set of login details should be used for all three sessions
Concept Note
The True Story of Ah Q first appeared as a nine-part series, a-chapter-a-week, in the Literary Pages of the Morning News or Chenbao, published from Beiping (now Beijing) between December 1921 and February 1922. Lu Xun, fearing rebuke and rejection from the so-called guardians of the traditional literary scholars, chose Ba Ren (in Chinese Ba Ren meant a ‘commoner’) as the pseudonym for the column – to both hide his identity and to protect his literary image. What was most overwhelming for Lu Xun was the chapter by chapter publication of The True Story of Ah Q becoming a sensation among people from all walks of life, especially among intellectual circles. Since 4 December one hundred years ago, scholars and critics in China, Japan and in the West, have relentlessly upheld True Story of Ah Q as not only Lu Xun’s best but modern China’s most soul-stirring, most condescending to the traditional Confucian values, most politically sensitive, most pro-people, most anti-feudal and anti-rulers, most anti-revolution Revolutionary, most anti-modern Modernist, most anti-Classics classic, most “ordinary” and most tragic work of fiction. Our planned Ah Q Centenary Online Conference will examine questions which need to be addressed in order to objectively analyse and evaluate Lu Xun, Ah Q, and the future of China.
Conference Schedule
Session 1 (10:30 AM IST- 11:50 AM IST)
- Dr. DS Rawat: The Image of Lu Xun in the Eyes of Hindi Writers
- Dr. Raman Sinha: The True Story of Ah Q - Fiction or Metafiction
Session 2 (12:00 PM IST - 1:20 PM IST)
- Prof. Sebastian Veg: Lu Xun, Ah Q and the Hidden Tradition of minjian Intellectuals
- Prof. Jiang Yixin: The True Story of Ah Q - An anti-Sages Novel
Session 3 (1:30 PM IST - 2:50 PM IST)
- Prof. Senno Takumasa: Exploring the Birth of Modern Literature from The True Story of Ah Q
- Prof. Alexey Rodionov: On Five Translations of The True Story of Ah Q into the Russian Language
- Dr. Hemant Adlakha: 1911 Revolution and Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary, Kong Yiji and The True Story of Ah Q Trilogy
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Webinar details and guidelines
The same login details are to be used for all three sessions of the conference. To receive the Zoom login details, please register for the event here. You will be directed to an automated registration form to enter your details. The login details will be dispatched from Zoom to the registered email ID immediately after completing registration. If you do not receive this email, please check your Spam folder.
For ease of meeting attendance, it is recommended participants use the Zoom application on their respective devices. Please ensure you join the meeting only once, and that you remain muted throughout the event. To pose questions, participants may send in questions via the chatbox or use the Raise Hand option. Only unmute yourself if called upon to do so by the Chair. Participants are required to enter their names while joining the meeting for ease of interaction during discussions. The meeting room will be open 10:00 AM IST onwards, with the talk formally starting at 10:30 AM IST. The webinar will also be live-streamed on ICS's YouTube Channel, linked here.
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