WRITING, SHARING AND GROWING: CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH AT A MAINLAND CHINESE UNIVERSITY

The teaching of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Sun Yat-sen University in South China has its own particular characteristics. First, to my knowledge, this is one of the very first English Creative Writing courses taught by Mainland Chinese faculty to students for whom English is a second language. Another important factor is that the Creative Writing program at Sun Yat-sen has developed not only as a writing experience, but also as a context for counselling and therapy for students.

China, creative writing, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), counseling, therapy