MLA Commons | LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:30:07 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2daef4e07a7478b88bcf768087773531 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-5/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:53:21 -0500 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bc9b5189830428c2d8a9f95891f80e5 Heng Du started the topic Panels on Chinese and EA Lit at the MLA (Toronto, Jan 8-11) in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/panels-on-chinese-and-ea-lit-at-the-mla-toronto-jan-8-11-2/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:11:27 -0500 <div>Dear Colleagues, please find in this Google Doc a compilation of panels related to the study of Chinese and East Asian Literatures at the MLA. We hope to see you there!</div>
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<div>MLA Committees on Ming and Qing China & Pre-14th Century…[Read more]

]]> 0 461bd69c3b1d31ccd38a618f0db401b4 Nathaniel Isaacson started the topic Self-Nominations: MLA Modern and Contemporary Forum in the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/self-nominations-mla-modern-and-contemporary-forum/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:43:09 -0500 The MLA Forum for Modern and Contemporary Chinese invites self-nominations for executive committee candidates. Executive committee members serve a five-year term, beginning at the MLA Annual Convention in 2026, and must be prepared to retain MLA membership and regularly attend the MLA Convention during this period. The Forum will vote on nominees…[Read more]

]]> 0 1602961c6669fe6282afa940c429965e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886041/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:01:13 -0400 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 8aa490bbe35b7c4c66dea57a6413aed3 Nicolai Volland started the topic MLA 2025: Collaborative session proposals in the discussion LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/mla-2025-collaborative-session-proposals/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:03:09 -0400 Dear members of the LLC Modern & Contemporary Chinese:

our Forum can sponsor one more “non-guaranteed, collaborative” session for the 2025 Convention. If you know of another forum with an open collaborative slot, or if you are organizing a proposal with another forum that you’d like the LLC Modern & Contemporary Chinese to co-sponsor, please…[Read more]

]]> 0 021ec4824576208999326ed8b6bb9ed2 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women, Tucker-Boatwright Festival and Symposium: Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination, Richmond, February 23, 2024 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878851/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:02:41 -0500 My keynote explores such questions as: What are the patterns in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women from romantic comedy to science fiction films? How do racism and sexism intersect in these patterns? Watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iHjKOYf-IXQ) to gain a better understanding how gender biases are…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9defb0ddb563af9ac8978cd6d90e4f9 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876065/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:16:09 -0500 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 e73db22182bcf799755fc9f7abbd0aac Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876061/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:10:47 -0500 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen’s Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. “The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 3308d1038e42855c4f715bfab63b8ffb Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies-6/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:50:14 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a5e83b8101a9a604626539f01aaea8e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852244/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:51:37 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcc5c7bd69e61d675162630f8e0fa625 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Translational Agency in Liang Shiqiu’s Vernacular Sonnets," Shakespeare's Global Sonnets: Translation, Adaptation, Performance, ed. Jane Kingsley-Smith and W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 161-179 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835417/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 04:05:11 -0500 Like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Shakespeare’s Sonnets challenge the binaries between gender and between the vernacular and the literary. Translators take up this challenge and turn it into an opportunity for humanist interpretations of literature, as in the case of Taiwanese essayist Liang Shiqiu’s (1903–1987) translation. Widely known in the Sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 78d6293de20e00b3f2f4d7c8ac47b0d3 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1794547/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:51:02 -0400 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]

]]> 0 b497bfe4813fa2e45fb3f74e0a477c1c Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Palgrave, 2022) in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1786321/ Sat, 09 Jul 2022 03:53:45 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f4c21d65befd723b251caa8170ec03dd 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1784805/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:51:28 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f8511893767c38b6959d51806361444c 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756625/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:01:14 -0400 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]

]]> 0 8b012da8435a2abde7cb20621b5845d8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Adapting Shakespeare: shattering stereotypes of Asian women onstage and onscreen." Oxford University Press blog, July 5, 2021 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1744967/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:00:26 -0400 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]

]]> 0 bf84f722cdab92333f8f7176ddfb031a 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732628/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 03:51:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 8fd6313767bca7d2cd0786fbe911a819 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1730989/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 04:05:07 -0500 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]

]]> 0 7c83c2cf7b5c40e762ce2ce3d113688d Nick Admussen started the topic CFP: Translations of Song, MLA 2022 (Washington, D. C.) in the discussion LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/cfp-translations-of-song-mla-2022-washington-d-c/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:11:34 -0500 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]

]]> 0 255447c04379784cb0ae4d8d41307b3c 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723385/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 03:49:49 -0500 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]

]]> 0 082ee27c965250b362c309e4bfe33124 Haiyan Lee created the doc LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese EC Documents in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1717862/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:04:03 -0500 0 77a4c3ae5731cbd93b67a054e114b674 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1700955/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:07:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 12def2600e322749b7e082745bd15579 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1700946/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:01:30 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6a821f0a5481b88db40ded8da91f8253 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1700931/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 03:52:02 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e2a836c9560f4a02cab44749531ee473 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1684896/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 03:49:41 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6c1c979a6b6a2409b5f6203a5192ac05 Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/se-asian-clcs-forum-hosted-happy-hour-fri-jan-10-at-the-mla-5/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:59:24 -0500 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]

]]> 0 27ecdf98dfe9b4f31ea3f14a92775457 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1670235/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 03:51:00 -0500 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]

]]> 0 3e0d48cc609f7b22ac45850e7c769568 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666508/ Tue, 15 Oct 2019 03:52:12 -0400 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]

]]> 0 9c4e6f2714d9831c7ddfe1d6db2c75ee 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 LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1665571/ Sun, 06 Oct 2019 03:51:52 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2ee8ac484d92204b7021d128fc838b0d Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese: CFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601121/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:15:45 -0500 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]

]]> 0 ec1fe409b5237ba0be398b16237139c8 Brian Bernards posted an update in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese: CFP for MLA 2019 (Chicago) Special Session sponsored by the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601119/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:05:46 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f14392b40f4c043541f082fbcef4463f Petrus Liu posted an update in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese: BU visiting position Visiting Assistant Professor position […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598736/ Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:28:36 -0500 BU visiting position

Visiting Assistant Professor position in Chinese Lit. at Boston University

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/10781

The Department of World Languages & Literatures (WLL) invites applications for a one-year non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor position in Chinese literature for the 2018-2019 academic year…[Read more]

]]> 0 021e65725e7e2245bca77ad406c96ec1 Christopher M. Lupke posted an update in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese: Reconsidering Family Relations in Modern Chinese Literature […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598718/ Sat, 27 Jan 2018 06:43:52 -0500 Reconsidering Family Relations in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

A Forum Session at the 2018 MLA in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019.

Family relations over the past 120 years in Chinese society(ies) have changed dramatically, and some would argue that the emergence of individualism as a modern, atomized, subjective formation has risen in inverse…[Read more]

]]> 0 91b3c968049950245e548080cfbb8fa4 Nick Admussen replied to the topic Candidate Statement in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/candidate-statement-3/#post-1015560 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 02:30:48 -0400 Hi everyone,

I’m the second candidate for the executive committee seat in the Modern China forum this year. Like many of you, I’m a strong supporter of Petrus — I teach his excellent and path-breaking research, believe he strongly represents the openness and futurity that I hope come to dominate the field, and although we’ve never met, I have he…[Read more]

]]> 0 015bbc0f2e613558783044ac629f8b5d Petrus Liu started the topic Candidate Statement in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/candidate-statement-3/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:45:10 -0400 Dear Colleagues in Modern/Contemporary Chinese Literature,

I’m very honored to be nominated for the LLC Modern/Contemporary Chinese Executive Committee. I’d like to briefly introduce myself here, and share a few words on my vision for the committee and the field.

The MLA, as we know, has undergone important structural changes and now is an imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 932445fb832cf45c993d2e2e7b49ac6b Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Please help endorse the formation of an early & medieval Chinese lit forum! in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/please-help-endorse-the-formation-of-an-early-medieval-chinese-lit-forum/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:29:15 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

As many of you may be aware, while the MLA forums on modern Chinese lit and Ming-Qing lit were successfully established in 2014, a third forum, on pre-14th century literature, never quite got off the ground.  I’ve been encouraged to try to change this, and I need your help!

Could you please go to the prospective forum…[Read more]

]]> 0 3180da77de082e6eb2ec20aa77573759 Jiwei Xiao started the topic Jia Pingwa MLA 2018 Roundtable cfp in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/jia-pingwa-mla-2018-roundtable-cfp/ Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:57:30 -0500 The “Arrival” of Jia Pingwa in World Literature: Translation and Interpretation

A Roundtable sponsored by the LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum for the MLA Annual Meeting in New York, Jan. 4-7, 2018.

Jia Pingwa is considered one of the most original and influential novelists in contemporary China. A prolific writer, he has non…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ba424d65822c0bc3255d2a77c39e01f Jiwei Xiao replied to the topic East Asian Languages and Literatures -- Reception -- ALL WELCOME in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-reception-all-welcome/#post-1012943 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:17:56 -0500 Will be there Chris!

]]> 0 189cd758fdad1e7774d365d3dfe8dee4 Christopher M. Lupke started the topic East Asian Languages and Literatures -- Reception -- ALL WELCOME in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-reception-all-welcome/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:07:35 -0500 Please come to the East Asian Languages and Literatures Reception on Saturday night at 8:45 pm in Marriott 411-412. There will be food and drink! I hope to see you there.

Christopher Lupke

]]> 0 000530dd26223c1c1c75b9bbf482b00b Nathan Faries started the topic Invitation: Ming/Qing LLC Forum Meeting FRIDAY in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/invitation-mingqing-llc-forum-meeting-friday-2/ Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:51:11 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Thank you very much for supporting the LLC Ming/Qing Chinese forum!

We hope to see you all at our second forum meeting on

Friday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Marriott, room 303.

Please join us to talk about plans for promoting more China scholarship at the MLA.

Because of your participation in this forum, this year…[Read more]

]]> 0 91ed4a1cadf786821cd2e036e2279ba2 Carol Zuses started the topic Solilcitation of Membership Suggestions for First Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/solilcitation-of-membership-suggestions-for-first-forum-delegate-election/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:14:02 -0400 When this forum’s executive committee meets during the Philadelphia convention in January, it will take up the matter of nominations for the first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for the forum; the election will be held in the fall of 2017. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to no…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d334d612e3de8c9bdae5fb2fd5c757c Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Chinese Lit Position at Penn State in the discussion Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/modern-and-contemporary-chinese/forum/topic/chinese-lit-position-at-penn-state/ Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:07:56 -0400 I hope this message finds you enjoying a beautiful fall semester! I’m writing because I’m on the search committee for a new position in Chinese Literature at Penn State. Could you help spread the word amongst friends, colleagues, peers, grad students and the like? (Ad below.)

Thanks so much!
Charlotte

Job #65648
Assistant Professor of…[Read more]

]]> 0 9974c6d1e4e9adafbd681385796a4891 Alexa Huang deposited "It is the east": Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/551103/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:20:02 -0400 Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical…[Read more]

]]> 0 82dc0f5ffcb976f18d6e5476abcb86dc Alexa Huang deposited Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/550010/ Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:12:48 -0400 For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun’s search for a Chinese “Shakespeare,” and from Feng Xiaogang’s martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9b775fb7c5553aaa6744ea3ca7c92e3 Alexa Huang deposited Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectic between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549932/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:06:34 -0400 Modern Chinese fiction dealing with cultural others can be taken as a lens through which to reread the cosmopolitan theory. At stake in the debate between communitarianism and liberalism are the viability of single cultural membership and its validity. Lao She’s Self-Sacrifice (1934) and Dr. Wen (1936-1937) question the viability of global c…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ebba5a9f5713c55a486f5f299d66697 Pauline Kra deposited The Role of China in Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" in the group LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545825/ Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:30:42 -0400 Montesquieu’s ideas on China have been the subject of much study and controversy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that, as discussed in twenty-two books of the Esprit des lois, China serves to illustrate Montesquieu’s fundamental principles and to elucidate his method. References to the empire appear frequently in the concluding chapters…[Read more]

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