季風人文講壇 JF SALON
季風人文講壇2026年11月活動
JF Salon Announcement of November
十一月的季風人文講壇，從個人的情感與記憶出發，走進歷史的暗角與時代的裂痕：旅居北京的美國作家 Tammy Treichel 以跨文化愛情小說《Pretzels and Pythons》講述在北京重新開始的人生；海洋史學家 Steven Schwankert 以《The Six》追尋鐵達尼號上六位被歷史遺忘的華人倖存者；資深記者、作家戴晴將以中文回望「我的1989，鄧小平的1989，和中國的1989」；旅居英德的詩人楊煉與小說家、畫家友友對談「世界意義的中文寫作」；小說家姚鄂梅以中篇小說集《家庭生活》（The Unfilial）探問「家，為什麼會傷人」。月中，《鴻》作者張戎將帶來睽違三十餘年的續作《飛吧，鴻！：母親、我與中國》，於11月17日、18日分別以英文和中文與讀者對談。
This November, JF Salon moves from personal stories of love and memory into the hidden corners of history. Beijing-based American author Tammy Treichel shares her cross-cultural romance novel Pretzels and Pythons. Maritime historian Steven Schwankert recovers the forgotten story of the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic in The Six. Veteran journalist and writer Dai Qing speaks in Chinese on "My 1989, Deng Xiaoping's 1989, and China's 1989." Poet Yang Lian and novelist-painter Youyou, who live between the UK and Germany, discuss what it means for Chinese-language writing to matter to the world. Novelist Yao Emei asks why home can hurt through her novella collection The Unfilial. Mid-month, Wild Swans author Jung Chang presents her long-awaited sequel, Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China, in English on November 17 and in Chinese on November 18.
November 4th, Wednesday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In English
Pretzels and Pythons: A Beijing Love Story 
Author Tammy Treichel discusses her cross-cultural romance novel, life and love in China's capital
Can you reinvent your life as a middle-aged American woman in China? Wendy Van Breest seems to have it all: a successful husband, a gifted daughter, and an enviable expat life in Beijing. But when Wendy's seemingly perfect life begins to unravel, an unexpected attraction and her best friend's long-hidden secrets force her to question everything she thought she wanted. Set in contemporary Beijing, Pretzels and Pythons is a cross-cultural romance novel with suspenseful twists that explores love, self-discovery and the courage to step beyond your comfort zone.
About the Speaker
Tammy Treichel holds a prize-winning doctorate on Moby-Dick and is the author of the memoir Hutong Heartthrobs, also published by Earnshaw Books. Today, she lives in a hutong (alley) house in a historic district in Beijing, China with her Chinese husband and their five rescue cats.
一位美國中年女性，能否在中國重新塑造自己的人生？Wendy Van Breest 看似擁有一切：事業有成的丈夫、天資聰穎的女兒，以及令人稱羨的北京外派生活。然而，當她看似完美的生活開始瓦解，一段意料之外的吸引，加上摯友隱藏多年的秘密，迫使她重新審視自己曾經想要的一切。《Pretzels and Pythons》以當代北京為背景，是一部充滿懸疑轉折的跨文化愛情小說，探討愛、自我發現，以及走出舒適圈的勇氣。作者 Tammy Treichel 以《白鯨記》研究獲得得獎博士學位，另著有回憶錄《Hutong Heartthrobs》，同樣由 Earnshaw Books 出版。她現與中國丈夫和五隻領養的流浪貓，住在北京一處歷史街區的胡同院落裡。
November 6th, Friday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In English
The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors 
In April 1912, eight Chinese passengers boarded RMS Titanic. Six survived, then vanished from the story, shut out by the racism of their era and the immigration laws of the United States. Steven Schwankert traces how they escaped the sinking, what happened after they reached New York, and how their story was lost for a century. Join him for a look at the people history left out.
About the Speaker
Steven Schwankert is a maritime historian and the author of two books, including The Six. He is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society and worked as an editor and reporter for 25 years in the U.S., China, and Hong Kong.
1912年4月，八名中國乘客登上鐵達尼號，其中六人倖存，卻隨即從歷史中消失——在那個時代的種族主義與美國移民法的排斥之下，他們的故事被埋沒了整整一個世紀。海洋史學家 Steven Schwankert 將追溯他們如何逃過沉船劫難、抵達紐約後的遭遇，以及這段故事如何被遺忘百年，帶領讀者走近這些被歷史遺漏的人。Schwankert 著有包括《The Six》在內的兩部著作，是探險家俱樂部（The Explorers Club）及英國皇家地理學會會士，曾在美國、中國及香港擔任編輯與記者長達25年。
November 10th, Tuesday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In Mandarin Chinese
我的1989，鄧小平的1989，和中國的1989 
本場活動中，資深記者、作家戴晴將以中文回望1989年：從她個人的親身經歷、鄧小平的抉擇，到整個中國的命運，以三重視角重新審視那一年。1989年，她主編出版收錄三峽工程反對意見的《長江長江》，同年7月入獄，直至1990年5月獲釋。
講者簡介
戴晴，1941年生於日軍轟炸下的戰時首都重慶，原名傅小慶。1960至1966年就讀哈爾濱軍事工程學院。1982年起入《光明日報》任特派記者，主持《學者答問錄》專欄；1986年介入調查三峽工程，1989年主編出版《長江長江》（反建派意見）。1989年7月至1990年5月以「涉嫌動亂、收容審查」名義入獄；獲釋後，先後任哈佛大學第54屆尼曼學人、哥倫比亞大學自由論壇（Freedom Forum）、華盛頓威爾遜中心（Woodrow Wilson Center）及澳洲國立大學當代中國研究中心學人等。著有《王實味與野百合花》《儲安平與黨天下》《在如來佛掌中——張東蓀和他的時代》《鄧小平在1989》等歷史調查實錄。目前旅居泰國清邁，埋頭於《問史筆記》《珍籍記贈》《老祖宗留下的》等著述。
In this Chinese-language talk, veteran journalist and writer Dai Qing looks back on 1989 from three vantage points: her own, Deng Xiaoping's, and China's. That year she edited and published Yangtze! Yangtze!, a collection of voices opposing the Three Gorges Dam, and was imprisoned from July 1989 until May 1990.
About the Speaker
Dai Qing was born in 1941 in wartime Chongqing and studied at the Harbin Military Engineering Institute. She joined the Guangming Daily as a special correspondent in 1982, where she hosted the column "Scholars Answer Questions." In 1986 she began investigating the Three Gorges Dam project, and in 1989 she edited Yangtze! Yangtze!, which gathered the views of its opponents. After nearly a year in prison, she became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and later held fellowships with the Freedom Forum at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and the Contemporary China Center at the Australian National University. Her historical investigations include works on Wang Shiwei, Chu Anping, and Zhang Dongsun, as well as Deng Xiaoping in 1989. She now lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
November 11th, Wednesday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In Mandarin Chinese
世界意義的中文寫作：詩人楊煉與小說家友友對談 
急劇發展的全球化生存方式，讓當代中文寫作面對著全新的提問。如何讓中文創作具有世界意義？不僅為什麼寫？更是怎樣寫？如何不停深化自身，把自己建成一個既有獨立個性、又有普遍意義的「小傳統」？旅居英德的詩人楊煉和他的小說家、畫家妻子友友，將以他們秉持主動的他者之心態漂泊世界的創作歷程，驗證其人生態度：「沒有天堂，但必須反抗每一個地獄」。
講者簡介
楊煉，1955年出生於瑞士，成長於北京，七十年代後期開始寫詩。1983年以長詩《諾日朗》轟動大陸詩壇，迄今共出版中文詩集十五種、散文集二種與一部文論集，作品已被譯成三十餘種外文，被譽為世界上當代中國文學最有代表性的聲音之一。所獲諸多獎項包括意大利萊里奇「文學終身成就」獎、波蘭茲比格紐·赫伯特國際文學獎、英國筆會獎、雅努斯·潘諾尼烏斯國際詩歌大獎、台灣首屆太平洋國際詩歌獎、意大利卡普里國際詩歌獎及諾尼諾國際文學獎等。楊煉兩次當選國際筆會理事，並獲邀成為挪威文學暨自由表達學院院士，亦是1988年創刊的《倖存者》詩刊雙主編之一。
友友，小說家、畫家。她離開中國後正式開始文學創作，迄今在中國、台灣及海外出版中短篇小說集、長篇小說及個人畫冊共13部，其中兩部小說已譯成英文：《Ghost Tide》（HarperCollins/Fourth Estate，2005）與《One Man's Decision to Become a Tree》（德國柏林 PalmArtPress，2023）。她的文學創作被譽為「現實魔幻主義」作品。友友是1980年代以來中國當代文學史的親歷者與見證者；作為視覺藝術家，她的作品曾在世界多國舉行個展，畫作《空中樓閣》於2018年在意大利蘇爾摩納第46屆國際藝術展獲得外國藝術家特別獎。
Rapid globalization poses new questions for contemporary Chinese-language writing. How can writing in Chinese matter to the world? The question is not only why we write, but how. How can a writer keep deepening their work and build a "small tradition" of their own, one that is both distinctly individual and universally meaningful? Poet Yang Lian and his wife, the novelist and painter Youyou, who live between the UK and Germany, draw on decades of writing while wandering the world as willing outsiders, testing their creed: "There is no heaven, but we must resist every hell."
About the Speakers
Yang Lian was born in Switzerland in 1955 and grew up in Beijing. He began writing poetry in the late 1970s and rose to fame in 1983 with his long poem "Nuorilang." He has published fifteen collections of poetry in Chinese, two essay collections, and a book of criticism, and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His honors include Italy's Lerici Pea Lifetime Achievement Award, Poland's Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the English PEN Award, the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry, the Capri International Poetry Prize, and the Nonino International Literary Prize. He has twice been elected to the board of PEN International and is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Literature and Freedom of Expression. His English-language collections include A Tower Built Downwards (Bloodaxe Books) and the bilingual Riding Pisces: Poems from Five Collections (Shearsman Books).
Youyou is a novelist and painter who began writing seriously after leaving China. She has published 13 books of fiction and art in China, Taiwan, and abroad, including two novels in English translation: Ghost Tide (Fourth Estate, 2005) and One Man's Decision to Become a Tree (PalmArtPress, 2023). Her fiction has been described as "realist magic." As a visual artist, she has held solo exhibitions in many countries, and her painting Castle in the Air won the Special Prize for Foreign Artists at the 46th International Art Exhibition in Sulmona, Italy, in 2018.
November 12th, Thursday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In Mandarin Chinese
家，為什麼會傷人？——談女性命運與中國家庭的裂變 
中篇小說集《家庭生活》（The Unfilial）以普通家庭為稜鏡，映照高速發展帶來的社會撕裂，直面當代女性的生存困境，以及傳統倫理與個體覺醒之間的持續衝突。本場對談由喬治城大學助理教授 Kyle Shernuk（佘仁強）與 Sinoist Books 行銷總監 Daniel Li 主持。
講者簡介
姚鄂梅，現居上海。著有長篇小說《像天一樣高》《白話霧落》《真相》等，中篇小說集《家庭生活》等。2021年，《家庭生活》由人民文學出版社出版，入選豆瓣2021年度讀書榜單。
主持人簡介
Kyle Shernuk（佘仁強）是喬治城大學現代中國文學與文化助理教授，同時也是研究現代與當代華語文學、電影與文化的學者。他的研究特別關注弱勢與少數族群，近期發表之著作聚焦於全球華人社群中的族群性、原住民性、酷兒議題以及語言等主題。
Daniel Li 自 Sinoist Books 創立以來即擔任行銷總監。Sinoist Books 是一間致力於推廣全球華語社群與海外華人多元敘事的出版社。他獲得了倫敦書展2026年「開拓者獎」。
The novella collection The Unfilial uses ordinary families as a prism to reflect the social divisions brought about by China's rapid development, confronting the difficulties faced by contemporary women and the conflict between traditional ethics and individual awakening. Reviewed by The Irish Times. The conversation will be moderated by Kyle Shernuk of Georgetown University and Daniel Li of Sinoist Books.
About the Speaker
Yao Emei lives in Shanghai. She is the author of several novels and of the novella collection Family Life (家庭生活), published by People's Literature Publishing House in 2021 and named to Douban's list of the best books of 2021. Its English translation is published as The Unfilial.
About the Moderators
Kyle Shernuk is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at Georgetown University and a scholar of modern and contemporary Sinophone literature, film, and culture. His research focuses on marginalized and minority communities, and his recent work examines ethnicity, indigeneity, queerness, and language across the global Chinese-speaking world.
Daniel Li has served as Marketing Director of Sinoist Books since its founding. Sinoist Books is dedicated to promoting diverse stories from Chinese-speaking communities and the Chinese diaspora around the world. He received a 2026 London Book Fair Trailblazer Award.
November 17th, Tuesday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In English
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself, and China 
In 1991, Jung Chang's global bestseller Wild Swans captivated millions by telling modern China's story through three generations of women. Now, she returns with her long-awaited sequel, Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China. Spanning from the late 1970s to the present, this deeply moving memoir traces China's rise to global power alongside Chang's personal cost of exile and dissent under authoritarian rule. Join us for a powerful conversation on family, memory, and endurance.
About the Speaker
Jung Chang 張戎 is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Empress Dowager Cixi, and Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister, as well as Mao: The Unknown Story, with her husband, Jon Halliday. She was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952, and is the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to literature and to history, and lives in London with her husband.
1991年，張戎的全球暢銷書《鴻：三代中國女人的故事》透過三代女性的命運講述現代中國，打動了全球數以百萬計的讀者。如今，她帶來睽違已久的續作《飛吧，鴻！：母親、我與中國》。這部深刻動人的回憶錄從1970年代末寫到當下，在記錄中國崛起為全球強國的同時，也呈現張戎在威權統治下流亡與異見所付出的個人代價。歡迎一同參與這場關於家庭、記憶與堅韌的對談。張戎1952年生於四川宜賓，是第一位在英國大學獲得博士學位的中華人民共和國公民，著有《鴻》《慈禧：開啟現代中國的皇太后》等，並與丈夫喬·哈利戴（Jon Halliday）合著《毛澤東：鮮為人知的故事》。她因對文學與歷史的貢獻獲頒大英帝國司令勳章（CBE），現與丈夫定居倫敦。
November 18th, Wednesday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In Mandarin Chinese
張戎談《飛吧，鴻！：母親、我與中國》
繼11月17日的英文場之後，張戎將以中文與讀者分享新作《飛吧，鴻！：母親、我與中國》。作為暢銷全球逾1500萬冊的《鴻》的續作，本書從1970年代末寫到當下，延續張戎家族與中國的故事，記錄中國從封閉走向崛起的歷程。張戎是文革後少數離開中國的人之一；即使知道寫出真相會讓她遠離家園，母親仍鼓勵她勇敢去做想做的事。本場活動將與讀者一同談論母女、記憶、流亡與寫作。
講者簡介
張戎（Jung Chang），1952年生於四川宜賓，是第一位在英國大學獲得博士學位的中華人民共和國公民。著有《鴻：三代中國女人的故事》《慈禧：開啟現代中國的皇太后》等，並與丈夫喬·哈利戴（Jon Halliday）合著《毛澤東：鮮為人知的故事》。她因對文學與歷史的貢獻獲頒大英帝國司令勳章（CBE），現與丈夫定居倫敦。
Following her English-language talk on November 17, Jung Chang returns to speak in Chinese about Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China, the sequel to Wild Swans. Spanning from the late 1970s to the present, the memoir continues the story of her family and of China's journey from isolation to global power, and of a mother who encouraged her to write the truth even when it meant exile from home.
About the Speaker
Jung Chang is the author of Wild Swans, Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), and Empress Dowager Cixi. Born in Sichuan, China, she was awarded a CBE for services to literature and history, and lives in London.
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