[Hum_Calendar_Events] REMINDER: "What is Sinophone Studies?" Colloquium, 5/16

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Please note new location: Humanities 348

		 

		What Is Sinophone Studies?
		A colloquium
		Friday, May 16, 2008
		4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
		Humanities 348
		UCLA
		
		
		Scholars from ethnic studies and area studies will
discuss Shu-mei Shih's book, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone
Articulations across the Pacific, and engage the author with comments
and questions
		Robert Chi (Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA), Chair
		Colleen Lye (English, UC Berkeley)
		Yingjin Zhang (Literature, UC San Diego)
		 
		Colleen Lye is Associate Professor of English at UC
Berkeley where she teaches courses in Asian American literature,
twentieth-century Anglophone literature, and postcolonial theory. Her
book, America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
(Princeton University Press, 2005) won an award from the Association for
Asian American Studies and honorable mention from the American Studies
Association. Most recently, she coedited with Christopher Bush a special
issue of Representations called "Forms of Asia," which appeared in the
summer of 2007.
		 
		Yingjin Zhang is Professor of Chinese Literature and
Film, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of
California San Diego. Among his publications are From Underground to
Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China (coedited
with Paul Pickowicz; Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); China in Focus:
Studies of Chinese Film and Literature in the Perspective of Academic
History (in Chinese) (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2006), and
Chinese National Cinema (Routledge, 2004), and The City in Modern
Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender
(Stanford University Press, 1996).
		 
		 
		Shu-mei Shih's Visuality and Identity: Sinophone
Articulations across the Pacific (University of California Press, 2007)
inaugurated the field of Sinophone studies. The book has been described
as a "vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated
at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies,
diaspora studies, and transnational studies." Arguing that the visual
has become the primary means of mediating identities under global
capitalism, Shih examines the production and circulation of images
across what she terms the "Sinophone Pacific," which comprises
Sinitic-language-speaking communities such as the People's Republic of
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America. This groundbreaking work
argues that the dispersal of the so-called Chinese peoples across the
world needs to be reconceptualized in terms of vibrant or vanishing
communities of Sinitic-language cultures rather than of ethnicity and
nationality.
		 
		
		
		
		For more information please contact
		Richard Gunde
		Tel: 301 825-8683
		Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies and Department of
Comparative Literature

		 

 

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