Bookworms burrow at conference on Chinese literature

More than 180 novelists, poets, literary translators and researchers from 11 countries shared their opinions on the status of Chinese literature at the International Conference on Chinese Literature in Global Contexts.

Translation, interpretation and publication were also addressed during the three-day conference held from April 28 to 30, jointly organized by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Beijing Normal University (BNU), University of Oklahoma, World Literature Today (WLT) journal, and Chinese Literature Today (CLT) journal.

The conference was part of the Chinese Literature Overseas Dissemination Project, inaugurated in 2010 by BNU and WLT, one of the United States' oldest periodicals devoted to world literature.