MCLC: Peripheral Visions conference

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Peripheral Visions conference
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Peripheral Visions
In honor of Professor Wilt L. Idema in celebration of his career &
achievements
November 8-9 | 2013
 
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South Room S020 1730 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge MA 

http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k99569&pageid=icb.page632718

“Peripheral Visions in Chinese Literature and Drama” turns the
spotlight on those scripts, performance traditions, literary languages,
and modes of circulation that have traditionally or more recently
deemed of secondary importance to the study of Chinese literary
culture. These margins provide ideal vantage points for considering
the formation and development of Chinese literature as a field of
study, as well as starting points for a discussion of literary history that
more accurately reflect contacts and flows of information between
various literary communities. The panels explore marginality as both
an impetus for cultural renaissance and transformation, as well as a
discursive formulation to be potentially appropriated by centers of
social and cultural power.

11.8
Center or Margins
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Chair: Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University)
Stephen H. West (Arizona State University):
“Sound and Sight: Perceptual Mapping in Erlang Plays”
Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College):
“Letters as Windows on Ming-Qing Literary Culture”
Michel Hockx (SOAS, University of London):

“The Lost Books of Modern China”

Marginal Characters
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Chair: Judith Zeitlin (University of Chicago)
Grace Fong (McGill University):

“Unlikely Biographers? Daughters, Wives, and Mistresses in the Qing”
Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu (Academia Sinica): 

“How Is a Loyalist's Suicide Turned into Comedy? Prostitutes, Barbarians
and Eunuchs in The Rock with Shadows of Blood”
Maria Sibau (Emory University):

“Storytellers, Fishermen, and Maids: Rewriting Marginal Characters in
Early Qing Drama”

Rethinking the Non-Canonical
1:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Chair: Robert Hegel (Washington University in St. Louis)
Katherine Carlitz (University of Pittsburgh):
“Center and Periphery in Ming Dynasty Gazetteers: Is the Distinction
Useful?”

Tian-yuan Tan (SOAS, University of London):

“A Peripheral Figure in the Historiography of Chinese Drama: The Case of
Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802)”
Tsai Hsin-hsin (National Chengchi University, National Taiwan College of
Performing Arts):

“A Game on Stage: The Amalgamation of Playwright, Director, and Performer”
場上遊戲──試論「編導演合一」的京劇「玩笑戲」《十八扯》
Xiaosu Sun (Harvard University):

“Praying at the Xiangshan Altar of Wishes: Performance of the Precious
Scroll of Incense Mountain (Xiangshan baojuan) in the Greater Suzhou Area”

Rethinking the Canonical
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Chair: Judith Zeitlin (University of Chicago)
Xu Yongming (Zhejiang University):
“The Zou Brothers and Early Qing Literature”
Xiaoqiao Ling (Arizona State University):

“Constructing Historical Memory: Reading The Peach Blossom Fan”
Shiamin Kwa (Bryn Mawr College):

“Genevieve Wimsatt and Griffins in China"

 
11.9
Circulations Between Centers and Margins
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Chair: Stephen Owen (Harvard University)
Paize Keulemans (Princeton University):
“Chinese Gossip, Dutch Theater, Global News”
Wang Ayling (Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan): “Dramatic Interpretation of
the Fall of the Ming in Dong Rong’s (1711-60) Ganoderma Shrine (Zhikan ji)”
Ariel Fox (Harvard University):

“Marginal Economies: The Circulation of Money and Men in Coins of Heavenly
Peace (Taiping qian)”
William C. Hedberg (UNC-Wilmington):

“A Resident of the Periphery Adrift in the Center: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s
Uncanny Travels in Republican China”

Margins of Empire
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Chair: Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
Siao-chen Hu (Academia Sinica):
“The Southwest in Ming-Qing Literary Imagination”
Guo Jie (University of South Carolina):

“Portraying Peri-peripheries: Late Imperial Representations of Mianren”
Eileen Chow (Duke University):

“Paper and Bones: Tales in Transit and from Abroad”

Peripheral Possibilities
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Roundtable with Wilt L. Idema and David Der-wei Wang
Wilt L. Idema (Harvard University),
David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University),
Tarryn Chun (Harvard University),
Yingzhi Zhao (Harvard University),
Einor Keinan-Segev (Harvard University),
Huan Jin (Harvard University)