Please join the Royal Asiatic Society China, Beijing Branch, at the Bookworm for an Oct. 20 talk by Isabel Wolte on the adaptation of world literature classics in Chinese film.

Since the early 20th century, Chinese filmmakers have adapted masterpieces by world literary figures -- from Guy de Maupassant to Oscar Wilde, from Nicholas Ostrovski to Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- for their domestic audience. Foreign tales were appropriated, combined with Chinese cultural conventions and altered as deemed necessary for moral or political reasons. Dr. Isabel Wolte presents examples of this creativity, starting in the 1920's. The talk will be moderated by long-time China correspondent Laura Daverio  

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Austrian scholar Dr. Isabel Wolte has been watching and studying Chinese cinema for more than three decades. She is Executive Director of her own company, China Film Consult and regularly teaches and publishes on Chinese cinema. She has worked as location manager and assistant director for several Austrian and German film productions in China. In addition to having been the first non-Chinese student at the Beijing Film Academy on World Literature in Chinese Cinema, where she obtained her PhD, Isabel also has a BSc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and an MSc in Ancient Philosophy (University of Edinburgh).

Bookworm and RASBJ members: show your membership card when you pick up your ticket to get 10 RMB off.