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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Please join me in a conversation with one of the most prominent and outspoken contemporary writers in China today. Liao Yiwu was imprisoned for four years for composing his epic poem, “Massacre,” a condemnation of the government’s crackdown at Tiananmen Square. His last book, <i>The Corpse Walker</i>, remains banned in China. His writing is filled with a deep sense of humanity—the everyday and the timeless. Hope to see you at this special noon event on Wednesday, October 5.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Warmly,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>UCR Departments of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature</span></b></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Present a conversation with</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><img width=190 height=288 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:35E5C696-663F-4278-A638-56AC6D67103A"></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#062190'>Liao Yiwu</span></b></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>,</span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> a distinguished Chinese poet and writer of literary non-fiction, specializes in evoking the lives and feelings of people "at the bottom" in Chinese society--farmers, bricklayers, school teachers, shamens, lepers, and others. His work is banned in China, but circulates there online, and is available in English in <i>The Corpse Walker</i> (Pantheon, 2008) and <i>God is Red </i>(HarperCollins, 2011). </span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>After some short readings from these works, Liao, who does not speak English, will answer questions from Professor Andrew Winer<span class=apple-style-span>, Department of Creative Writing,</span> with interpretation by Professor Perry Link<span class=apple-style-span>, Department of Comparative Literature</span>.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#062190'>OCTOBER 5 Wednesday noon - 1pm</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#062190'>CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South </span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#062190'>Symposium Room INTS 1113</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#062190'>Free and open to the public</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>