【8th Talk】Dr. Wei Tiantian: “Seeing Life Transmission: Principles and Practices of Writing Contemporary Local Folklore Ethnography.”
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| Introduction | Introduction: Organized by New Era University College and planned by Institute of International Education, the "International Academic and Cultural Exchange Series " lectures will be held periodically throughout 2026. The series invites esteemed scholars and experts from both domestic and international institutions who have made significant achievements in their respective research fields. The eighth lecture in this series will be delivered by Dr. Wei Tiantian, a lecturer in the School of Tourism at Shandong Women’s University. Titled “Seeing Life Transmission: Principles and Practices of Writing Contemporary Local Folklore Ethnography”, the lecture addresses four central questions: What is minsuzhi? How should it be written? What kind of minsuzhi should we write? And what is its value and significance? It explores how researchers can engage in dialogue with local people through “fieldwork with warmth,” bringing personal narratives, people’s interpretations of their own culture, and their cultural practices into minsuzhi texts that convey narratives of local life. |
| Speaker | Wei Tiantian Dr. Wei Tiantian is a lecturer in the School of Tourism at Shandong Women’s University and is currently a visiting scholar at New Era University College in Malaysia. She received her PhD in Chinese Folk Literature from Shandong University in 2023. Her research interests include the intellectual history of the transformation of contemporary Chinese folklore studies, intangible cultural heritage, and minsuzhi studies. She has published more than ten articles in journals including Folklore Studies, the Journal of Qinghai Minzu University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), and Forum on Folk Culture, as well as one scholarly monograph. Her representative publications include the monograph Responding to Changes in Everyday Life: The Transformation of Chinese Folklore Studies since the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (Xueyuan Press),and the articles Sober Reflections on the Rush of Intangible Cultural Heritage Studies in Contemporary China, Self-Interpretation of Experience and Approaches to Addressing Dilemmas in Minsuzhi Writing, and Life Revolution’ in the Context of China’s Civilizational Process. |
| Moderator | Gong Weimin Dr. Gong Weimin, Faculty Member at the School of Tourism, Shandong Women’s University, and Visiting Scholar at New Era University College. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography. His research interests include tourism economy and green development. He is the first author of seven peer-reviewed publications in journals including Geographical Research, Economic Geography, Sustainability, and PLOS ONE. He is the Principal Investigator of one Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation project and two bureau-level research projects. Teaching: Tourism Destination Management; Tourism Geography. |
| Information | Date: 21 October 2026 (Wednesday) Time: 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Venue: Zoom Meeting Room Link: https://newera-edu-my.zoom.us/j/8266571752 Meeting ID: 8266571752 (Password: 018871) Language: Chinese |