MCLC: Lu Xun and East Asia conference

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Tarryn Li-Min Chun <tarryn.chun at gmail.com>
Subject: Lu Xun and East Asia conference
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"Lu Xun and East Asia"

an international conference in conjunction with the 3rd Academy Forum of
the International Society of Lu Xun Studies (ISLS) April 5-6, 2013 at
Harvard University 

Organizers: David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University), Jaewoo Park (Hankuk
University, South Korea), Xiaojue Wang (University of Pennsylvania)

East Asia, as both a geopolitical and geopoetic domain, constituted a
crucial part of Lu Xun¹s engagement with China and the world. The issues
that he confronted during his lifetime ­ national character and
sovereignty, literature and cultural hegemony, the politics of body and
spectrality, modernity and its disavowal ­ resonated beyond the political
borders of the People¹s Republic of China and remain key concerns
throughout the region to this day. Yet, the extant paradigm of Lu Xun
Studies in China and the Sinological world tends to overlook this
expansiveness in a way that recapitulates the very ³Obsession with China²
that Lu Xun sought to critique. Presenters at this conference will offer
new scholarly perspectives that challenge and complicate prevailing trends
in Lu Xun Studies, explore possibilities for reading Lu Xun in a
dialogical light, and uncover new grounds for fruitful comparison of Lu
Xun and his oeuvre with writers and literary works from East Asia and
beyond. By problematizing the dominant critical perspective and adopting
instead the lens of contemporary East Asia, this conference aims to
reposition Lu Xun as a key interface of transnational literary and
cultural studies and to radically rethink the legacy of China¹s leading
author of modern literature.

Conference is free and open to the public. No registration required.

Sponsors: the CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology, the
Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and
the Harvard University Department of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations  

Conference location: CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
 

For more information, please visit the conference website
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k94090 or email
harvardluxun at gmail.com