In the afternoon of November 26, 2020, the 253^rd Academic Forum of China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) was successfully held online through Tencent Meeting. The speaker was Prof. Wang Zhuo, Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Shandong Normal University. The topic was “Emperor Jones” and His Past and Present life - the Cross-media Adaptation of Emperor Jones. This lecture was sponsored by the Research Office and organized by the School of Foreign Studies, CUPL. Prof. Zhang Qing, Dean of the School of Foreign Studies, CUPL, moderated the forum. More than 60 teachers and students from inside and outside of our university attended this online lecture.