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March 2020

Dr. Yuan Yuan

• What's your favorite book to read for fun?
   ÌÆÊ«Èþ°ÙÊ× A Collection of Tang Poems.  Pure Aesthetic pleasure.
• What's your favorite book to teach?
  The Scarlet Letter: An exemplary text to practice all schools of critical theories. 
• Do you have a favorite film?
  Ciao, Professore!  No Man¡¯s Land, Tampopo, The Last Tango in Paris.
• How do you spend your free time?
  In San Diego? Walking on the beach during the day and watching cartoons (Ice Age, Tom and Jerry, etc.) during the night.
• What is your biggest literary inspiration?

  Dreams of the Red Chamber (ºìÂ¥ÃÎ)  by Xueqing Cao. No one can truly finish this novel.

   And the other one, Kafka¡¯s Der Process (Trial), because it does not make sense.
• What's your cure for writer's block?

  I got most inspirations while walking or driving. Of course, you can get lost easily (or dangerously).

              Or watching Rashomon, that helps a lot.

• What are you working on outside of class?
  It is still too early to start a memoir, so I write satires instead, not exactly creative, but absolutely therapeutic.
• Fun Fact:
  I love fish, but I was born in the year of the rooster¡ªidentity disorder perhaps?