On 25 March 2023, the third session of the Daxia Forum on Foreign Literature Studies was successfully held. The forum invited Professor Yin Qiping from Hangzhou Normal University and Professor Jin Hengshan from East China Normal University as keynote speakers, and Professor Zhang Chong from Fudan University and Professor Dan Hansong from Nanjing University as commentators. Over 150 students and teachers attended the forum both online and offline.

In the first half, Professor Yin Qiping discussed in depth the meaning of “new liberal arts” and the value of “new” by pointing out that before the term “new liberal arts” was introduced, cross-fertilization of disciplines had existed, and that many of these cross-fertilizations were natural. In response to Professor Yin’s ideas of the value of “new” and “old”, the commentator Professor Zhang Chong emphasizes that literary researchers should overcome the anxiety of “new” for the sake of “new”, and should take a firm stand on the issue.

In the second half of the forum, Professor Jin Hengshan discussed the importance of interdisciplinarity, examined the development process, theoretical causes, approaches and contents of interdisciplinarity, and summarized the merits and problems of interdisciplinarity, with the title “A Historical Perspective: Approaches, Contents and Causes of Interdisciplinarity and its Problems”.

Professor Dan Hansong commented on both the historical and political dimensions, saying that Prof. Yin had deconstructed the dichotomy between the old and new liberal arts from the standpoint of traditional humanists, while Prof. Jin had examined the paths and consequences of American (literary) studies from the perspective of the history of ideas and disciplines.

Students and teachers engaged in diversified and insightful questions and discussions on topics such as literature teaching, the linguistic dimension of science fiction literature and interdisciplinary studies, ChatGPT and literary creation.