Events

What does it mean to be a national citizen, a city-dweller, and yet someone who identifies with inherited culture in great urban areas like Berlin, Beijing, Taipei, and Washington DC?

Six contemporary poems on the theme City Life have been selected from each country and translated into the other two languages. The poems are being displayed on monthly posters throughout Chinatown.

2 - 2:45 pm: Introduction
Speakers:
Lane Jennings (poet and translator, and consultant)
Karl Zhang (professor of Chinese, George Mason University)
Irmgard Wagner (professor emerita of German, George Mason University)

2:45 - 3:30 pm: Walking Tour
With local historian Alice Stewart, who pointed out sites of German-American and Chinese-American significance. Poets read aloud the first set of poems.

3:30 - 4 pm: Reception
Big thanks to our partner at the Chinatown Community Cultural Center (616 H St NW) for hosting the reception after the tour, which featured tasty Chinese food.

In cooperation with the Chinatown Community Cultural Center and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.

This project is funded in part by a grant from the Humanities Council of Washington, DC. Additional funding comes from TECRO, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, and the Ambassador of Taiwan.