

Announcing New Exchange with National Taiwan Normal University

Please join us for the upcoming symposium, Translatability/Transmediality: Chinese Poetry in/and the World, organized by Yunte Huang and Hangping Xu.
Schedule
Session 1
October 7, 11 am-1 pm ET / 11 pm-1 am GMT+8
Yunte Huang and Hangping Xu:
Welcome and opening remarks
Haun Saussy: Ways of Reading Worlds in Chinese Poetry
Shengqing Wu: Lyrical Looking and World-Visions in Late Qing Poetry on Overseas Journeys
Xiaorong Li: Globalizing Chinese Sensual-Sentimental Lyricism: Zhou Shoujuan’s Xiangyan Conghua
Chris Song: Failures of Diplomatic Intents in Poetry Translation: On Thomas Francis Wade’s Chinese Translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”
Lucas Klein: Assimilation or Detention: Poetic Form and the Retranslation of the Angel Island Poems
Session 2
October 8, 11 am-1 pm ET / 11 pm-1 am GMT+8
Michelle Yeh: The Russian Imaginary and Modern Chinese Poetry in Taiwan
Nick Admussen: The Poetry Turn: Writing Chinese Cultural Studies Between Empires
Cosima Bruno: Intersections, Interactions, Integrations: Chronological Entanglement of a Chinese Poem
Maghiel Crevel: China’s Battler Poetry and the Hypertranslatability of Zheng
Xiaoqiong
Hangping Xu: Crossing the World to Sleep with You: Yu Xiuhua’s Poetry as Performance and its Cross-cultural Translatability
Jacob Edmond: Literature as Translation: Bei Dao beyond World Poetry
Co-hosted by:
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
The Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Sponsored by:
The Carsey-Wolf Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
EALCS is proud to congratulate Linshan Jiang for earning her Ph.D. and moving to a postdoc at Duke University! Way to go Linshan!!
Huge congratulations to Sophia Shi who just earned her MA and is entering the Princeton Ph.D. program in Religion! We know Sophia will do GREAT!
We celebrate the 2022 Mochizuki award winners, Dr. Akiyo Cantrell and Aidan Pedersen. Congratulations!
Here are two lectures Professor Yang gave on one of the main themes in the book: “Ritual Economy”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP3wQqRNbAg&ab_channel=CenterforChineseStudies%2CUCBerkeley
2. Online Audio Interview: “Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China,” on Mayfair Yang’s book, interview with Victoria Lupascu, New Books Network, July 2020.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/peoples-places/east-asian-studies/
The New Books Network recently interviewed Prof. Mayfair Yang about her recent edited volume, Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices. Click the link below to hear the interview: https://newbooksnetwork.com/chinese-environmental-ethics.
The Audio Interview Award recognizes outstanding examples of audio interviews conducted by UCSB students of individuals who grew up in Taiwan. The winning interviews need to be
about 55 minutes long, good audio quality, and, at minimum, include most of the following questions:
What year were you born?
Were you born in Taiwan? If not, at what age did you come to Taiwan
and with whom?
What is the earliest memory you have of your childhood?
What kinds of values did your parents instill in you?
What kinds of conversations did you have around the dinner table?
What language did you speak at home?
What was your favorite food and who prepared it for you usually?
What did your family do for a living?
What was your relationship with your mother and father like?
Do you have siblings? If so, what role did they play in your life growing up?
What kind of education did you get in Taiwan and where?
What was a normal day like for you at the age of 10 or 15?
What were some of your favorite places to be as a child?
Could you tell me a little about your friends? What did you play with
them? How much time did you spend with your friends?
Do you still keep in touch with a friend or friends from your childhood
in Taiwan?
When you grew up, what kind of life and profession did you imagine
having as a grown-up? (For example, what was your dream job? Your ideal of family or house?)
In sum, what kinds of feelings and words come to mind when you
remember your childhood in Taiwan?
Lastly, if you could tell your 10-year-old self one thing, what would it be?
Submit to CT at eastasian-taiwanstudies@ucsb.edu your current CV, the interview audio file, and a 500-word description of the interview.
For questions, please contact eastasian-taiwanstudies@ucsb.edu prior to submission.
The deadline is May 30, 2022.
The winners will receive a certificate and $500.
The winning interviews will be included in the Made in Taiwan archive.