On November 1st, hosted by Postgraduate Student Affairs Office under the Party Committee of the NKU and organized by the Graduate Students Union of the CFL, the Tutor Appointment Afternoon Tea” –for exchanges between postgraduates and teaches was held in Conference Room 110 of the CFL. This time, Prof. Wang Xinxin from the Department of Japanese Language and Literature was invited to share some insights about the academics with graduate students of the 2019 class. Postgraduates from the CFL and the College of Liberal Arts participated in the conference.
First of all, Wang Xinxin began with the introduction of the differences between Mater of Science and Mater of Translation and Interpreting. She mentioned that students of the MTI, on one hand, should focus their attention on practice in order to meet the social needs, on the other hand, develop a habit of posing questions, assuming hypothesis and finding solution to them. For students with a master's degree, she suggested that they should dedicate themselves to one single subject and go deeper into it so that they would have a say in this area.
Afterwards, Wang Xinxin illustrated some examples to expound where the differences lies when the researches of Japanese literature were done in China and Japan. Chinese scholars often study one topic from the macro perspective while Japanese ones are the opposite. Therefore, students should give priority to the research method and subjects when they started.
Later, Wang Xinxin inspired the students to probe into what interests them most in the ocean of academics. Deeply moved, she recalled of her study at the University of Tokyo, saying that her doctoral dissertation was questioned by the teacher as not a dissertation for lack of evidence. Overwhelming burdened, she began to peruse the Historical Records and Book of the Latter Han in the library before finding her way to the academics. She encouraged students of both colleges to read a large number of outstanding dissertations and focus on academic frontiers. “What is of foremost concern to the postgraduates is to modify, supplement, and publish a paper.
In the end, Wang Xinxin made a concise summary, highlighting that the students must make practices during which they should improve their academic ability and linguistic proficiency in the postgraduate life.
