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Florence Chia-ying Yeh sent New Year wishes

(iTianjin)

Updated: 2022-02-09

As director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture at Nankai University, Florence Chia-ying Yeh, 98, has been studying and promoting classical Chinese poems for more than seven decades.

"We are living in an era of great change, and traditional Chinese literary criticism, too, must seek paths of transformation to bring forth new life," she said.

Yeh studied Western literary theory and taught classical Chinese at North American universities, including Harvard and Michigan State University, and settled in Canada in the late 1960s.

"In the increasingly globalized world, the communication between the East and the West is a pressing question for all of us," she said. "The two cultures have different ways of thinking and different histories of formation, but there is much room for conversation."

Yeh returned to teach in Tianjin in the 1990s. She said in a video message to the forum that she still remembers a couplet in a meeting room at Harvard, which read, "Civilizations, new and old, each enlightening the other; hearts and minds of the East and the West, one and the same.

In the video message, she wishes every of her friends peace, good health, and happiness in the coming new year.


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