In 2018, he was awarded the Tang Prize in Sinology for revolutionizing the way we read Chinese literature and for making a significant breakthrough in the development and application of the theory of comparative literature. Almost none of his contemporaries can match him for his original and in-depth analysis of Tang Dynasty poems. Owen is one of the most eminent translators of classical Chinese poetry today. Newly retired James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Prof. Hu, currently director of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy in Academic Sinica, felt freshly inspired after listening to her teacher interpreting Du Fu’s works once again. Stephen Owen’s talk delivered on October 14 at Academia Sinica, the first of the three lectures he will be giving on this Taiwan tour, made possible because of the invitation of Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology and National Taiwan University. “It's as if Du Fu was brought back to life and then given a brand new identity,” Prof.
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