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A Talk and Reading: "Fact into Fiction: How A Most Immoral Woman was Born", 23 Nov.
Last updated:2014-11-11
The Reading and Writing Forum of the Sun Yat-sen University
Center for English-language Creative Writing presents
A Talk and Reading:
"Fact into Fiction: How A Most Immoral Woman was Born"
by Linda Jaivin
And
A Children's Performance:
"You Raised Me Up"
Center for English-language Creative Writing presents
A Talk and Reading:
"Fact into Fiction: How A Most Immoral Woman was Born"
by Linda Jaivin
And
A Children's Performance:
"You Raised Me Up"
Time: 19:00-20:30, November 23, 2014
Venue: Lecture Hall 101, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Organizer: Sun Yat-sen University Center for English-language Creative Writing
School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Linda Jaivin is the internationally published author of seven novels and four works of non-fiction including the Quarterly Essay Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World. Her most recent books are the travel companion Beijing (2014) and the novel The Empress Lover (2014). She is also an essayist, cultural commentator, playwright and film translator from Chinese (including subtitles for 《英雄》《霸王别姬》, and 《一代宗师》).
Linda Jaivin's Six novel, A Most Immoral Woman, tells the true story of a love affair between the famous Australian China correspondent George Morrison and an American heiress, Mac Ruth Perkins, in 1904 in China and Japan at the time of the Russo-Japanese War. Linda Jaivin will discuss the research she did - into China and Japan in 1904, the war and the two real-life figures on whom she based the novel. She will talk about the creative challenges of historical fiction, the ethical issues of working with real people and real events and how she approached these.