• Date: February 4th, Tuesday, 2022 14:00 – 17:00
• Location: Youngone Hall (Room 210), SNUAC (Bldg. 101) / Online via Zoom

In 2022, the understanding and recognition of Chinese society’s recent changes seem to be reaching an inflection point at least in Korean society. The attraction of Chinese society has decreased by a huge gap, cultural conflicts occur frequently, and the anti-China sentiment has risen so that even a mention of China induces allergic responses. Images of China shown through media and online materials appear to be incomprehensible and noncommunicable, and such images seem to be constantly reproduced.

Today’s world including Korea is in dire need of ‘China Literacy’ that will allow us to wholly understand Chinese society. We not only need a practical/utilitarian approach and interest for the Chinese Communist Party and the elite politics but also need to understand the complex changes of China comprehensively and systematically from a perspective that connects Korea and the world, and also ask back for a re-establishment of a Korean perspective.

SNUAC Northeast Asia Center (NEAC) is holding a Book & Book concert with authors and translators of six books that address the recent complex changes of Chinese society and scholars of related fields. Through real stories and various voices of Chinese society and people, we would like to examine how Chinese society is changing and have an in-depth discussion on how we should see it. We would thus like to contribute to creating an opportunity for understanding the complexity of Chinese society that is not simply reduced to its state and the communist party and seeking mutual reference and reflection.