Donated nearly NT$200 million to establish the Tsinghua University Literature Lecture Center and the Literary Museum. The late American writer Wang Moren and his wife Zhou Anyi returned to Taiwan after 40 years away from home. Zhou Anyi also attended the inauguration ceremony of the literature museum today and will be committed to promoting Taiwanese literature. (Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)
[Reporter Hong Meixiu/Hsinchu Report]The “Wang Mo Ren Zhou Anyi Literature Museum” located on the shore of Xiangsi Lake at Tsinghua University was completed today. Architect Huang Shengyuan got inspiration from the mines and mountain tunnels in Wang Moren’s novel “Under the Earth”, and built this literature museum hidden in the mountains and forests along the undulating terrain from the People’s Society Hospital to Xiangsi Lake. This is also the reason why Wang Moren and Zhou Anyi The couple donated nearly NT$200 million to establish Tsinghua Literature Lectures and build a literature center and a base to promote Taiwanese literature.
The Literary Museum of Tsinghua University is located beside the Acacia Lake and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tsinghua University. It is full of poetry and can provide inspiration and nourishment for literary creators. (Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)
Tsinghua University stated that the Literature Museum, the Cultural Relics Museum and the Hongliang Art Museum to be completed on the South Campus will be connected in the future, becoming the most beautiful literary and aesthetic path at Tsinghua University and a base for cultivating young writers. Moreover, the literature museum is not only a space for storing literary works, but also a living and dynamic environment. It allows teachers and students to have a dialogue with themselves, literature and nature.
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Li Zhuoying, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, pointed out that the Literature Museum plans an open theater space that can accommodate about 80 people, as well as an exhibition room, lecture hall, library, conference room, which collects and displays Wang Moren and his wife’s manuscripts, works and collections. Research room.
The Literary Museum of Tsinghua University is located beside the Acacia Lake and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tsinghua University. It is full of poetry and can provide inspiration and nourishment for literary creators. (Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)
Wang Yuting, director of the Institute of Taiwanese Literature at Tsinghua University, said that the Literature Center will build the Tsinghua Arts and Literature brand, construct an academic education field, and practice sustainable development and management in three major aspects. In the future, it will gradually carry out international writer-in-residence programs, celebrity lectures, and youth creative work. Workshop, Taiwan Literature International Exchange and other projects.
He Chenhong, former president of Tsing University, said that Tsinghua people from Zhu Ziqing to Hu Shi led vernacular literature, which is deeply rooted in the soul of Tsinghua University. The completion of the Literature Museum of Tsing University is thanks to Wang Moren and Zhou Anyi, who have allowed the long river of literature to flow.
The Literary Museum of Tsinghua University is located beside the Acacia Lake and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tsinghua University. It is full of poetry and can provide inspiration and nourishment for literary creators. (Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)
The Literature Museum was donated by Wang Moren, an honorary doctor of Tsinghua University and a novelist living in the United States, and his wife Zhou Anyi. Wang Moren, whose real name is Wang Antai, has served as a newspaper reporter, supplement editor, and TV station editor-in-chief. His creations focus on the economic development process of Taiwanese society. The works reflect the real situation of the people at the bottom of the society due to the contradictions and injustices that have arisen, and are good at depicting the image and spirit of characters struggling with fate in difficult situations and remaining unyielding until death. In 2017, Wang Moren was recommended by Tsinghua University to compete for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
But Wang Moren passed away at his home in San Francisco, USA, three years ago. He has been away from his hometown for nearly 40 years. His ashes also returned home last weekend and were installed in the Eternal Hill on the top of Dapingding, Hsinchu. Zhou Anyi said that Mr. Wang Mo believed that in order to build a first-class Tsinghua University, it should also focus on literature. In 2014, they donated US$3.5 million to establish the “Wang Mo Ren Zhou Anyi Literary Lecture”. Since the lecture office and lecture venue had to be borrowed, they sold the two-unit apartment they prepared for retirement to support the construction of the literature center.
The Zhou Anyi Literature Museum of King Moren of the Qing Dynasty is located on the bank of Xiangsi Lake and next to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tsinghua University. It is full of poetry. Zhou Anyi attended the inauguration ceremony of the literature museum today and published a new book. (Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)
Zhou On-yi also released a new book today, “Reminiscences of the Lost Years – Memoirs of Zhou On-yi”, describing four catastrophes in her life history in prose, including suffering from mild polio as a child, experiencing severe spinal displacement as an adult, and later due to her husband’s death. The articles published were not suitable for the political environment at that time, and they went to the United States to work hard and create a real estate career together.
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Source: China