11/20 Danbao

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”。

Please contact Jiayi Zhu (jiayizhu@uchicago.edu) and Sophia Walker (scwalker2@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or concerns.
Jiayi and Sophia, Co-coordinators, Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop
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Danbao’s Bio: 淡豹,原名刘雪婷,辽宁沈阳人,作家。结束在北京大学的社会学、人类学学习后,她在芝加哥大学人类学系度过了五年多,其间开始为《东方早报》等中文媒体写社会评论、文化评论。2013年,微博上出现一条广东某高校男性教授评论大学女生“应该打扮漂亮,为老师和男生带来美的享受”的言论后,她非常生气,在微博上连续十天共写下十篇系列回应文章,呼吁国内高校反对性别歧视和刻板印象;从此她活跃于微博,话题遍及女性、读书、儿童权利等。2015年她回到北京生活至今。今年8月,她出版了一本短篇小说集《美满》,写中国家庭近年的结构性变化、人们在流动中漂浮不安又寻求支撑点的生活感受、以及女性在家庭中的欲望和苦闷。如今她主要是一名小说写作者,也在一本新闻时事杂志和另一本儿童杂志上开有专栏。

10/30 Carl Kubler

PhD Candidate, History

“European Vernaculars in Late Imperial China: Texts and Contexts before the Treaty Ports”

Time: Friday, October 30th, 3-5 pm

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

Discussant: Yin Cai, Ph.D. Candidate, EALC

The Art and Politics of East Asia (APEA) workshop is proud to host Carl Kubler (Ph.D. Candidate, History), who will present his dissertation chapter “European Vernaculars in Late Imperial China: Texts and Contexts before the Treaty Ports” this Friday. He summarizes his chapter as follows:

Although many scholars of late imperial China have analyzed in detail the economic and political dimensions of Chinese trade with the West in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, fewer have considered the routine linguistic mechanisms and practices that facilitated commercial and cross-cultural interactions on the ground level. This chapter examines European language learning among Chinese commoners in the decades leading up to the first Opium War (1839-1842) and shows how a better understanding of translingual interaction can deepen our understanding of everyday exchanges and relationships.

Please contact Jiayi Zhu (jiayizhu@uchicago.edu) and Sophia Walker (scwalker2@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or concerns.
Jiayi and Sophia, Co-coordinators, Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop

Professionalization Workshop with Ji Young Kim and Scott W. Aalgaard

Dear friends and colleagues,
Welcome back to a new academic year! To kick off this year’s APEA, we are delighted to have EALC’s graduates, Ji Young Kim and Scott W. Aalgaard, hosting a professionalization workshop. They will be sharing their experience on their first job with us on Zoom. And please come with your questions on pedagogy and research!
Ji Young Kim (Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Queens College)
and Scott W. Aalgaard (Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University)
Friday, Oct 16th, 2020
3-5pm (CDT), Zoom meeting
Zoom Registration Link:
Please contact Jiayi Zhu (jiayizhu@uchicago.edu) and Sophia Walker (scwalker2@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or concerns.
Jiayi and Sophia, Co-coordinators, Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop