MCLC: Nation, Gender, and Transcultural Modernism--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Ping Zhu <zpdarr at gmail.com>
Subject: Nation, Gender and Transcultural Modernism--cfp
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We are looking for paper proposals for the Panel "Nation, Gender, and
Transcultural Modernism in Republican China" for the AAS 2013 Annual
Conference in San Diego, March 21­24, 2013.

This panel seeks to explore the intersecting relationship between
gender and nation in Republican China within a transcultural
framework. The gendering practices in modern China have been global
from the start; but more research has yet to be done to illuminate the
complex system of gendering in modern China as an active participant
of the global progressive gender ideology, rather than a passive
receiver of western discourses. The gendering practices in modern
China not only produced sexed bodies, but also provided a space of
mediation between western discourses and local tradition, between
orientialist representation and imperialist power, and between
colonial hegemony and nationalistic resistance. It is often through
this complex process of mediation that a nationalistic agency is
constructed across mutually contradictory global discourses. This
panel welcomes theoretically-informed (post-colonialism,
transnationalism. psychoanalysis, and feminism, etc.) papers that
explore the transcultural process of gendering in Republican China to
shed new light on the relationship between gender and nation as a
prominent feature of Chinese colonial modernity.

Please submit a 250 word abstract and a short bio to Ping Zhu
(pingzhu at ou.edu) or Li Guo (li.guo at usu.edu) by 25 July, 2012.