Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities

The conference features innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any humanistic discipline.

This is the inaugural session of the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities.  This will be an annual event, to be held in alternate years at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford.

Each year, the conference will bring together a keynote speaker and approximately twelve graduate students to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any humanistic discipline. We encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.

This year the keynote speaker is David Der-wei Wang, of Harvard University.

Conference agenda

Friday, April 16, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Panel 1: Media Matters: Visual and Aural Expressions of Chinese Modernity

Jessica K.Y. Chan, “Translating "Montage": the Discreet Attractions of Soviet Revolutionary Aesthetics for Chinese Revolutionary Cinema (1932-1966)”

Tiffany Lee, “Photography and Modernity in China through the Figure of the Double.”

Kristina Kleutghen, “Out From Behind the Curtain: Modernizing the Face of Imperial China?

Jing Wang, “Freedom in Listening: Depiction of Sound Art in Beijing”

Friday, April 16, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Keynote speech

David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University.  Title tba

Saturday, April 17, 10:00 a.m.

Panel 2: Embodiments of Modernity: Chinese Representations of Gender and Body

Howard Chiang, “The Demise of Chinese Eunuchism”

Emily Wilcox, “The Cultivation of Yunwei [??] in Contemporary Chinese Classical Dance”

Shing-ting Lin, “Hygienic Menstruation: Popularization and the Commodification of Female Hygiene in Republican China, 1910s-1930s”

Gary Wang, “Making 'Opposite-sex' Love in Print”

Saturday, April 17, 1:30 p.m.

Panel 3: "People's Arts:" Art production and performance in Post-1950s Mao-era

Daisy Yan Du, “From Politicized Tadpoles to Idealized Herd Boy”

Agnes Liu Zhuo, “The Role of Wengongtuan and Chinese Revolutionary Literature”

Margaret Greene, “A Ghostly Bodhisattva and the Price of Vengeance”

Saturday, April 17, 3:30 p.m.

Panel 4: Border Crossings: The Construction of National and Transnational Identities

Chen Xin, “Female Protestant Missionaries in Modern China and Japan (1880s-1940s)”

Ren Ke, “The Boulevardier from Fuzhou”

Ka Wong, “Depicting Other, Defining Self: Chinese Modernity and the Representations of “Nanyang” in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Art”