• 2013-02-21

For the purpose of promoting national reading program and raise the level of national reading ability, National Central Library made an effort to invite all types of libraries, government agencies, and local groups to jointly hold all kinds of reading activities. In the beginning of 2013, National Central Library will hold a series of special speech with the topic of “Spring – Travel with Poems” and invite the public to come to the library for feeling spring by reading and to be soaked in the natural landscapes described by poets, as well as in their description of humane scenes and views, all that travel along with poems. National Central Library Director-general Tseng Shu hsien said it’s a good time to read in spring while the weather is so pleasant. She further emphasized that reading poems with rich rhymes, rhythms, and meaningful words can certainly reveal our thinking and inspiration, as well as cultivate our disposition; hence, National Central Library has planned a series of special speech and subject book fair, with a focus on “poems.” It’s hope that hope by way of speech, introduction to reading, and good book display, we could create an atmosphere of reading poems in spring, lead the public to enjoy the beauty of reading poems in spring, and furthermore, let the reading become the habit of daily life for individuals.
The activities which include seven sessions of special topic will be held from February 23 to May 18 at International Conference Hall, National Central Library. The invited scholars and poets making a speech include Yu Tsai, Kuo-nan Hsu, Chin-yuan Hu, Tze-hsiung Yan, Hsi-te Wu, Hsian Yang, and Tze-Chen Lo.
Sessions of Speech at National Central Library listed as follows:
1.
Time: 2/23(Sat.) 14:00-16:30
Topic: Pastoral Symphony by Tao Yuan-Min
Speaker: Yu Tsai(Professor of Chinese, National Taiwan University)

2.
Time: 3/9(Sat.) 14:00-16:30
Topic: Artistic Transcendence in the Time of Worry: Tu Pu Faraway
Speaker: Kuo-nan Hsu(Associate Professor of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University)

3.
Time: 3/30(Sat.)14:00-16:30
Topic: Movement/Interaction/Exercise—Poems of Traveling and Traveling with Poems
Speaker: Chin-yuan Hu(Associate Professor of English, National Chengchi University)

4.
Time: 4/13(Sat.) 14:00-16:30
Topic: “Spring” as it seen by Wanderers in Northeast in Qing Dynasty
Speaker: Tze-hsiung Yan(Researcher, Institute of Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica)

5.
Time: 4/27(Sat.) 14:00-16:30
Topic: Paris: A City of Poems of Lamentation: Pictures in Poems, Poems in Pictures
Speaker: Hsi-te Wu (Professor of French, Tamkang University)

6.
Time: 5/11(Sat.)14:00-16:30
Topic: Pretty Sceneries in Taiwan: Writing and Reading Aloud of My Poems of Local Geography
Speaker: Chi-yan Lin (Hsian Yang) (Associate Professor of Taiwan Literature, Taipei Education University)

7.
Time: 5/18(Sat.)14:00-16:30
Topic: Traveling of Writers
Speaker: Tze-chen Lo (Poet, Writer)

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Website of Activities: http://102read.ncl.edu.tw/spring_01.html