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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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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 note that, due to popular demand, we changed the room to </span>INTS 1128<span style='color:black'> (Screening Room) for Wednesday’s </span>Liao Yiwu<span style='color:black'> event.<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'>Hope to see you there.<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'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><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 class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Present a conversation with</span></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:9105CB54-4D75-4C4B-BF66-9306B283C9B0"></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 class=apple-style-span>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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><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, Department of Creative Writing, with interpretation by Professor Perry Link, Department of Comparative Literature.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>A <i>New York Times</i> article by our speaker, Liao Yiwu: </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/opinion/walking-out-on-china.html?_r=1&hp"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/opinion/walking-out-on-china.html?_r=1&hp</span></a></span><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'> </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-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1440FC'>NEW ROOM: Screening Room INTS 1128</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 class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Coordinated by Prof. Perry Link, UCR Comparative Literature</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'>And Prof. Andrew Winer, UCR Creative Writing, </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>C</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>hair</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></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></div></div></body></html>