Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/23

Taipei, May 23 (CNA) While Taiwanese youths seem to be losing interest in classical

American Sinologist Kang-i Sun Chang

Chinese texts, American youth have found “healing power” in such venerable Chinese writers as Tao Yuan-ming, a leading American Sinologist said recently.

Tao Yuan-ming was a disenchanted fourth-century recluse whose works show a spirit of rising above things to find peace and harmony, and that message and the ideas of other Chinese literary figures are resonating with young people today as they have in the past, said Kang-i Sun Chang of Yale University in an interview with CNA.

Sun Chang was in Taiwan in part to promote the biennial Tang Prize, an Asian version of the Nobel Prize that awards achievement in Sinology and three other fields, and spoke to CNA on May 17 about the renewed significance of Sinology to people around the world today.    [FULL  STORY]