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LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese

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  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films.” The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience (Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO, 2022). Digital Database in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    The depiction of women of East Asian descent in science fiction films reveals how racial hierarchies are mapped onto, and used as justification for, mistreatment of women—and misogynistic prejudices inform racism. Contributing to the patterns that dehumanize Asian women are multiple sci-fi films that feature cyborgs and androids in Asian female b…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Palgrave, 2022) in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 6 months, 4 weeks ago

    Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, three of the most frequently adapted tragedies, have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for over two centuries as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, and avant-garde theatre. Gender roles in the plays take on new meanings when they are e…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago

    The global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130. in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    How might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Adapting Shakespeare: shattering stereotypes of Asian women onstage and onscreen.” Oxford University Press blog, July 5, 2021 in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago

    Gender roles in Shakespeare’s plays take on new meanings when they are embodied by Asian actors. Learning more about Asian approaches to performance not only enriches our worldview but also makes Asian cultures less abstract and Asian people more relatable as fellow human beings. Reflecting the idea that strength and empowerment can take many f…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    Western observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]

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    Nick Admussen started the topic CFP: Translations of Song, MLA 2022 (Washington, D. C.) in the discussion Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    The Ming-Qing forum and the Modern and Contemporary Chinese forum are collaborating to offer a panel on the translation of song. Here’s the CFP:

    We invite papers that explore how song forms from early modern and modern China have been/can be translated in ways that engage with their extant or lost musical dimensions. Contact…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.: The Pandemic and ‘Yellow Peril’.” Global Social Security Review Vol. 15 (Winter 2020): 50-59 in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Scroll down to read the Korean, followed by English, versions :::::: COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. Offering strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic, this article analyzes the his…[Read more]

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    Haiyan Lee created the doc LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese EC Documents in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Epilogue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    The epilogue tackles the ramifications of these new modes of inscribing temporally and visually ambiguous articulations of Shakespeare and China into a global vernacular in theater (Lin Zhaohua’s Richard III) and cinema (Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet). A paradox of infatuation with Asian visuality and rejection of ethnic authenticity emerged in the…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    This chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?

    Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Prologue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    Named the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto, championed and denounced in turn by optimists and critics. If Shakespeare now has worldwide currency, how is the se…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    Asian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical c…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    Members and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago

    This chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Cultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “King Lear on the small screen and its pedagogical implications,” in Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, ed. Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

    As a work that survives and appears in more than one form, King Lear has a vexing problem of interpretation and a rich opportunity for the study of textual and cultural variants. The play begins with an aging monarch staging a fantastical, paradoxical final act as a king. It lures us toward a final act of interpretation to nail down the nature of…[Read more]

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    Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    CFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:

    Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia

    What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC Modern and Contemporary ChineseLLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    CFP for MLA 2019 (Chicago) Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):

    Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions

    Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The…[Read more]

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