Modern sculpture of Du Fu (712-770)

Du Fu Cottage, Chengdu

Writers, Critics, and Scholars: The Public Intellectual and Chinese Literature

The Biennial Conference of the Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature

Beijing, PRC

Part I, June 20-21, 2009

Part II, August 11-12, 2009

Conference Schedule Part II

Conference Information

Dear Friends:

Welcome to Part II of the ACCL 2009 Biennial Conference, entitled "Writers, Critics, and Scholars: The Public Intellectual and Chinese Literature," to be held at the Jinchunyuan (近春园）Guesthouse at Tsinghua University. Jinchunyuan is on the western side of the campus, next to the famous Lotus Pond 荷塘. The best approach is from the West Gate: proceed on the main east-west road after entering the gate through the gas station, and take the first left; Jinchunyuan will be about 200 meters to the north, on your left, with the Lotus Pond on your right. Since a section of the east-west road further to the east is temporarily blocked, the route from any other gate will be much more circuitous. The telephone number of the front desk of Jinchunyuan is (010) 6278-4008. Conference registration will take place on Monday evening, August 10, 6:30-8:30pm. Tsinghua Chinese Department graduate students Yin Jie 尹捷 and Yuan Xianxin 袁先欣 will join me in welcoming you to the conference.

With the assistance of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, ACCL will provide 3 nights accommodation (August 10-12, departing on the 13th) at Jinchunyuan (where the panel sessions will also be held), including breakfast, as well as lunch and dinner on the 11th and the 12th, all in the Jinchunyuan Cafeteria. On the 13th, we will also be sponsoring an excursion to the Songzhuang 宋庄 Art District near Tongzhou to the east of Beijing, which includes a lunch. Please indicate if you are interested. Other expenses incurred during the conference will be your own responsibility. Reservations have already been made in the names of everyone on the conference schedule, except for those of you who have told me you will not be needing accommodations.

All panel sessions will be held in the No. 1 West Conference Room of the West Building of Jinchunyuan 近春园西楼西一会议室。Digital projection with audio support will be provided for all panel sessions.
Finally, I will suggest a couple of nearby bookstores and video shops for you to peruse in your free time. From Jinchunyuan, you can approach Chengfu lu via the Southwest or South Gates of Tsinghua University, or you can have a cab take you to the Lanqiying 蓝旗营 bus stop.

All Sages Books 万圣书园
123 Chengfu Lu,
Haidian
成府路123号
6276-8748
www.allsagesbooks.com
Sales@allsagesbooks.com
Open 10am-10pm
Accepts International Credit Cards

There are 2 audio/video shops foughly across Chengfu lu from All Sages; take the walkbridge across and the first one is right there. If you don't like it, turn left and proceed toward Wudaokou (away from the Beida East Gate) and there will be another one with a pretty good film selection, just past the Ganges Indian restaurant on your right.

Continuing east all the way to the Wudaokou light rail (No. 13 line) station, there is another good bookstore opposite the southwest corner of the station:

O2 Sun Bookstore
光合作用书店
Bldg 1, Huaqing Jiayuan, Chengfu Lu (across from Wudaokou light-rail station), Haidian District
海淀区五道口华清嘉园 1 号楼
Phone: 8286 3032/33
Open Daily 9am-midnight.

There are also plenty of restaurants and snack places along this stretch of Chengfu lu.

I'm looking forward to bringing highlights of the first sessions in June to this second meeting, and taking our summer-long discussion of the Public Intellectual and Chinese Literature to another level!

Sincerely,

Charles A. Laughlin
ACCL President