2018/11/1 The Afterlife of Pema Tseden’s Characters
Date: 1st November 2018
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
Location: WLB205, 2/F, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong
Speaker: Pema Tseden, Lim Dae-geun and Maialen Marin-Lacarta
Tibetan director and fiction writer Pema Tseden’s films and fictions from The Silent Holy Stones 《靜靜的嘛呢石》to Tharlo 《塔洛》are acclaimed by scholars and critics to be rare moments which individuate Tibetan characters, rather than conceiving of the Tibetan people en masse as the ethnic and cultural Other of China. In this seminar Pema Tseden will discuss with Lim Dae-geun, the Korean translator of his fiction and Maialen Marin-Lacarta, the Spanish translator of his short story Tharlo, how his characters fare in their audience and reader-reception beyond the contexts of these original films and fictions. They will also discuss Pema Tseden’s current documentary project tracking the life of the boy actor who played the Little Lama in The Silent Holy Stones after leaving monastic life. This seminar will include a book launch of the Korean translation of Pema Tseden’s short story collection entitled Holy Stones, Quietly Chiselled and the Spanish translation of Tharlo as an e-book and a screening of sections from Pema Tseden’s documentary work-in-progress, My Little Lama.
About the Speaker:
Pema Tseden
Tibetan film director, fiction writer and literary translator, considered by film scholars to be the founder of the indigenous Tibetan cinema. Received numerous prizes and nominations from and with films screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival, etc. His latest film Jinpa, produced by Wong Kar-wai, has been awarded the Best Screenplay award at the Horizon competition section at the 2018 Venice International Film Festival, and is competing in the 2018 Gold Horse Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay award and the Best Director award against his fellow directors including Zhang Yimou.
Lim Dae-geun
Film and literature scholar specialising in China and the East Asian region. Professor of Chinese Interpretation and Translation, and Global Culture and Contents; Dean and Director of Public Affairs of World Cultural Creativity Research Centre; and Director of Taiwan Research Centre, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Lim also serves as Executive Committee Chairman of The Asian Cultural Creativity Research Centre Corporation, and Chairman of The Chinese Cinema Forum Bureau.
Maialen Marin-Lacarta
Maialen Marin-Lacarta is a translator and Assistant Professor in the Translation Programme at Hong Kong Baptist University. She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies and in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) in Paris and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her translations of Chinese literature into Basque and Spanish include works by Pema Tseden, Shen Congwen, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, Yang Lian, Mu Shiying and Liu Na’ou.