{"id":273,"date":"2007-10-05T07:07:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/05\/scattered-seeds-writers-from-china-and-the-chinese-diaspora\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:09:59","slug":"scattered-seeds-writers-from-china-and-the-chinese-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/05\/scattered-seeds-writers-from-china-and-the-chinese-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered Seeds: Writers from China and the Chinese Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the 40th Anniversary of the International Writing Program, several noted IWP alumni have returned to Iowa City. A special reading of\u00a0Chinese writers is planned to celebrate. The reading will take place in the Adler Journalism Building room E105 on Thursday, October 11 from 5:00 &#8211; 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Li Rui (2002), Xi Chuan (2002), Ya Hsien (1967), and Cheng Wen-tao (1968-71), as well as IWP 2007 residents Lo Yi-chin (Taiwan), Lawrence Pun (Hong Kong) and special guest Yun He (China\/The Philippines) will discuss Chinese writing and literature. Poets Xi, Ya, Cheng, and Yun will also read from their work.<\/p>\n<p>The writers will also visit the Main Library to see the current exhibit &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/\">East Asia in the Midwest<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the 40th Anniversary of the International Writing Program, several noted IWP alumni have returned to Iowa City. A special reading of\u00a0Chinese writers is planned to celebrate. The reading will take place in the Adler Journalism Building room E105 on Thursday, October 11 from 5:00 &#8211; 6:30 p.m. Li Rui (2002), Xi Chuan<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/05\/scattered-seeds-writers-from-china-and-the-chinese-diaspora\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Scattered Seeds: Writers from China and the Chinese Diaspora&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}