Winds, Dreams, Theater: An Archaeology of the Stratified Emotion in Late Ming China

Ling Hon Lam will lecture on emotion in late Ming China at Harvard University.

Ling Hon Lam will give a China Humanities Seminar at Harvard.

Ling Hon Lam is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chinese literature at the University of Chicago. His dissertation, "Emotional In-Difference: Exploring Exteriority in Late Imperial Chinese Drama and Fiction," is about the performativity of emotion and the material process of constructing the interiority at the intersection of various media. His research and teaching interests include Ming-Qing drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history of sentiments, nineteenth- and twentieth-century media culture, and critical theories. His recent publications include "Cannibalizing the Heart: The Politics of Allegory in The Journey to the West" (included in Literature, Religion, and East/West Comparison) and "The Matriarch's Private Ears: Performance, Reading, Censorship, and the Fabrication of Interiority in The Story of the Stone " (HJAS 65.2).