Selected Lectures and Talks
“Storyteller Who Lived a Million Times: Creative Writing and Skills of Storytelling”
Lecture
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
School of Journalism of Fudan University, 2017
“My Portrait of Our Time: Thirty Years of China's Development and Reflections in Novels”
Lecture
Part one: 1970s--1980s, the 70s generation as the “last idealists”
Part two: 1980s-1990s, social mentalities in the business society
Part three: 1990s-21st century, utilitarianism VS spiritual needs
Part four: a writer’s reflections
University College Cork, Ireland
School of Asian Studies of University College Cork, 2011
“On Writing: Observe and Have Conversations with the Two Faces of Ego”
Lecture
Administration Building of Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Ocean University, 2018
“Psychological Problems and Healing in the Metropolis: Demystifying Psychological Experiments in Fictions”
Lecture
Baoshan Library, Shanghai, China, 2017
Skybridge Arts Centre, Beijing, China, 2017
“Is Imagination the Enemy of Realism?
The Process of Decontextualisation of the Fictions in the Context of Globalisation”
Lecture
Shanghai-Taipei Literary Seminar and Fiction Workshop, 2018
Shanghai Writers’ Association, Shanghai “Budding” Journal, Taiwan “United Literature” Journal
“Defining Life Through Reading: The Mazes of Literature”
Lecture
Songjiang Library, Shanghai, China, 2019
Pudong Library, Shanghai, China, 2019
Shanghai City Bookstore, Shanghai, China, 2019
“The Hidden Authorial Attitude in Realist Fiction: Worldliness or Innocence”
Lecture
Sinan Mansion Reading Club, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau, Shanghai Writers' Association, Publicity Department of Shanghai Huangpu District Committee, Sinan Mansion, 2018
“Crime Novel Writing Skills”
Lecture
Writers’ Bookstore, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Writers’ Association, Writers’ Bookstore, 2016
“How Should We Love Each Other: The Psychology of Relationship in Fictions”
Lecture
Online Chinese Educational Institution Barley Camp, 2018
“How Literature Expresses Emotions When Emotions Are Dying in Contemporary Life”
Lecture
Shanghai Monsoon Book Garden, Shanghai, China, 2015
Beijing One Way Street Bookstore, Beijing, China, 2015
“Instinct and Writing Techniques”
Speech
Ventspils International Writers’ and Translators’ House, Lativa
International Literary prize “Sliver Ink” Award Ceremony
Ventspils City Council and Ventspils International Writers’ and Translators’ House, 2018
“Writing and Homeland: How Does Root Influence Works of a Writer?”
Talk and reading
Literature House Gottlieben, Switzerland,
The Cultural Foundation of the Canton of Thurgau and the Thurgau Bodman Foundation, 2019
“Reality and Fiction: How Far and How Close They Are?”
Talk and reading
Château de Lavigny, Switzerland
Writing Program and Literary Seminar, 2018
“How Is a Fairy Tale Born?”
Talk and reading
Education Committee of Algund, Italy, 2019
“Malaise of Our Generation and My Short Story ‘Ignition’”
Speech and reading
Iowa University, Iowa City, USA
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, USA
Life of Discovery: Literary and Artistic Exchange Seminar for Writers in USA and China
China Writers’ Association, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, the University of Iowa, 2012
“Anxious Majority and Pathological Partnerships in My Short Stories”
Speech and reading
2014 Cork International Short Story Festival, Cork, Ireland
The Munster Literature Centre, 2014
Book Affair in H.A.L.D., Denmark
The Danish Centre for Writers and Translators, 2014
“When Surreal Story Meets Realistic Story”
Talk and reading
Dooradoyle Library, Limerick, Ireland
Limerick Visiting Writers’ Seminar, 2014