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Jia Zhangke's Platform: Epic Pop Music of 1980s
Professor Lu Tonglin from the University of Montreal will speak about 1980s pop music at the University of Illinois.
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After her PhD degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton in 1988, Tonglin Lu worked at American universities, including a one-year research grant at UC Berkeley, before moving to Canada in 2003. Currently, she teaches Chinese literature and cinema and cultural theory in Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal. She published several monographs, an anthology and a series of articles concerning gender, sexuality, modernity, Chinese literature and cinema. Currently, she is completing a manuscript in contemporary Chinese independent film entitled "Documentary Aesthetics and Spectacle of Ideology as Fantasy."
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