Reading as Mapping: Developing Thinking in Whole Learning On "Wholeness" and "Fragmentation" — The Reading and Teaching of Lu Xun's Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk

The guided approach to reading classics is undoubtedly different from the whole-book approach, and the latter has replaced the former in the latest Junior High School Chinese textbooks (Unified Edition). What does the change signify regarding today’s literary education? What does the whole-book approach ask for while balancing between intensive and extensive, holistic and selective reading? The Whole-book Reading: Essential Tutorials and Practices series, published by East China University Press, came out at a timely moment to address these questions.

Professor Ni Wenjian, a reputable scholar from East China Normal University, will bring us an in-depth, captivating “how-to” lecture on the book series, using Lu Xun’s Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk as an example, tackling the challenges and barriers to acquiring the skills for whole-book reading, and offering advice to facilitate the effective application of the approach in the classroom.