Month: November 2020

Ph.D. Candidate, EALC

“Suspended Across the Chasm: Husks and Other Lacuna in the Works of Mizuno Senko”

Time: Friday, December 4, 3-5 pm

Zoom Registration: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvduGrqjoiHNONWLZEQF_K9VEyZAiOXI7T

Discussant: Nick Ogonek, Ph.D. Student, EALC

The Art and Politics of East Asia (APEA) workshop is proud to host Helina Mazza-Hilway (Ph.D. Candidate, EALC), who will present her dissertation chapter “Suspended Across the Chasm: Husks and Other Lacuna in the Works of Mizuno Senko” this Friday. She summarizes her chapter as follows:

In this portion of my second dissertation chapter, I trace the image of husk – that is, a cast-off skin or carapace – as it pertains to feminine hysteria in Mizuno Senko’s 1913 short story “Husk”. Utilizing the work of Luce Irigaray on hysterical women, I show how Mizuno offers a voice to the female hysteric and elucidates upon the seemingly cryptic symptoms of hysteria. Ultimately, I argue that Mizuno develops through the image of husk a kind of ‘hysterical subjectivity’ which complicates any easy understandings either of hysteria or of representations of women’s consciousness in Taishō-era fiction.

Chinese Novelist, former PhD student in Anthropology

“How Do You Tell New Stories of “Guanxi”? Writing and Publishing Fiction in Today’s China”

Time: Friday, November 20th, 5-7 pm CST

Zoom Registration: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvduGrqjoiHNONWLZEQF_K9VEyZAiOXI7T

Discussant: Yueling Ji, Ph.D. Candidate, EALC

The Art and Politics of East Asia (APEA) workshop is proud to host Danbao (Chinese Novelist and former PhD student in Anthropology), who will talk about her newly published book 美满  (roughly translated as Perfectly Satisfactory) this Friday. Note that the event will be mostly Chinese with opportunity to ask questions in English during the Q&A. She summarizes her short stories as follows:

《女儿》，试图用中国旧小说的“夹叙夹议”办法，用一对情侣的分手讲男性的自高自大、有限的反省、对女性的轻视、以及他们（不肯承认的那些！）对家庭的依赖。
《山河》，一位二十多岁的女孩——一个私生女——回忆她短暂的人生。她希望自己能和父母的“活法”有所区别；
《父母》，一对普通父母失去其“独生子女”后，展开了对再次生育和新生活的探索；
《乱世佳人》，三个人物，一家三口，一个典型的中国城市家庭：李先生、李太太、女儿小李。李太太看着《乱世佳人》译制片长大，想要成为一个勇敢、独立的女性，觉得那样有魅力。她却发现自己难以原谅丈夫的出轨。
《你还记得在上州给我变魔术吗？》，一对前恋人如今分隔在太平洋两岸。其中的那位女性是生活北京的插画艺术家对周围处处反感，又处处眷恋，她认为自己只能这样在中国活下去，又受不了“这样的中国”。

PhD Student, EALC

 “Loose Harmonies in Cold War South Korea: Sin Chung-hyŏn and the Rise of Psychedelic Rock”

Photo citation: Sin Chung-hyŏn and the Pearl Sisters on the cover of the magazine Popular songs (Taejung kayo che 41-chip, [1969])

Time: Friday, November 13, 3-5 pm CT

Zoom Registration:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlcuGtqjsvGt1MgyeyiA_F_wJDTl-qA3L2

The Art and Politics of East Asia (APEA) workshop is proud to host Ethan Waddell, (Ph.D. student, EALC), who will present his paper, “Loose Harmonies in Cold War South Korea: Sin Chung-hyŏn and the Rise of Psychedelic Rock“ this Friday. He summarizes his paper as follows:

This paper explores the aesthetics and conditions for reception and production of South Korean psychedelic rock between 1968-1975, focusing on the genre’s primary figure, Sin Chung-hyŏn (1938-). I consider psychedelic music in an emergent youth culture, specifically in relation to the discovery of tradition, pursuit of dissociation and commodification of sex. In this way I hope to cast a wider spectrum for analysis of rock music defined as psychedelic and other contemporaneous texts from popular literature and media, allowing us to move beyond dominant formations of masculinity and essentialized notions of culture that have often gone overlooked in the discourse of hybrid rock authenticity.