WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Wang Anyi. Fu Ping: A Novel Translated by Howard Goldblatt (2019) Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the … [Read more...]
“Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy Of Emotion-Realms through the Lens of The Peony Pavilion”
Discussion "Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy Of Emotion-Realms through the Lens of The Peony Pavilion" Ling Hon Lam, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley Wei Shang, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Department of East Asia Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Moderated by Ying Qian, … [Read more...]
“Frankenstein in China: A Chinese Diplomat, an Indian Automaton, and the Characterization of China as a ‘Sleeping Lion'”
Lecture "Frankenstein in China: A Chinese Diplomat, an Indian Automaton, and the Characterization of China as a ‘Sleeping Lion’" Ari Larissa Heinrich, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies, University of California San Diego Thursday, November 9, 2017 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Kent Hall, Room 403 This talk explores … [Read more...]
“Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion – Fan Jian and Still Tomorrow (2016)”
Film Screening and Discussion "Fan Jian and Still Tomorrow" Fan Jian, Filmmaker Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University November 10, 2017 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Dodge Hall, Room 511 No registration required. Despite not having finished high school, Yu Xiuhua … [Read more...]
Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Nicolai Volland (Columbia University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literature from the Mao era, proposing to read Chinese socialist literature as world literature. China after 1949 engaged with the world beyond its borders in myriad … [Read more...]
