MCLC: conference in honor of Ted Huters

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Center for Chinese Studies <ccs at berkeley.edu>
Subject: conference in honor of Ted Huters
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Modern Chinese Style: Words & Worlds in Twentieth Century China:
A conference in honor of Professor Theodore Huters

Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, 2014, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor
conference room
Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley

Agenda and directions available here:

http://ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/events/2014.05.02.html

The conference is convened in honor of the scholarship of Professor
Theodore Huters of UCLA, whose work has been crucial in expanding our
understanding of Chinese print culture and its relation to modern
intellectual history, binding a rigorous focus on questions of literary
form and style to the historical excavation of the mediation between words
and worlds in modern China. It brings a group of distinguished scholars of
cultural and literary history to Berkeley’s Center for Chinese Studies, to
explore the question of style in Chinese literary modernity. Professor
Huters is the keynote speaker and presenters include his current and
former students as well as scholars whom he has inspired and collaborated
with.

Presentations will investigate Chinese writing in the twentieth century
not so much in terms of content, but as a set of styles of
conceptualizing, feeling, translating, navigating, and revolutionizing the
world through words.

Schedule

Friday, May 2, 2014

3:00–4:50 — Panel 1: Passages: the Modern Micro-Politics of Style
Haiyan Lee, The Silence of Animals: Writing on the Edge of
Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Richard Jean So, Love in a Time of Networks: Guo Moruo's "The Vase"
Xiao Liu, Information Nonsense and Experimental Writings of Wang Meng
Nicole Huang, How to Style a Murder Story: On the Minor Narratives of Chen
Dingshan (1897-1987)

5:10-6:30 pm — Keynote speech
Theodore Huters, Separated at Birth? Notes on the Popular and Vernacular
in Modern China

Saturday, May 39:00-10:50 -- Panel 2: Keywords: the Modern Chinese Lexicon
Roy Chan, How to Do Things with Dreams
Hu Ying, How to Make a Lieshi: Eulogy between Empire and Nation
Eileen J. Cheng, How to Relate to an Other: Lu Xun on Cultivating the Human
Michel Hockx, Keywords: yinhui 淫秽 (obscene), buliang 不良 (harmful)

11:00 to noon — Panel 3: Words and Everyday Worlds
Wen-huei Cheng, 日常生活現代性：周瘦鵑小說的文化敘事
Joan Judge, Detailing the Everyday: the Invention of the shiyan tan 實騐談
and the Valorization of Quotidian Experience in the Chinese Republic

Noon to 1:00 — lunch

1:00-3:50 — Panel 4: Genre and Gender in the Formation of Modern Print
Culture
Shengqing Wu, Confucian Poetics, the Politics of Sound, and the Imaginary
of Peace in East Asia: Long Yusheng (1902–1966) in 1940s Nanjing
Yurou Zhong, Yutiwen in Modern Chinese Literature
Andrew Stuckey, Female Relations: On Giving Voice to the Abject in Chinese
New Fiction
Huang Jinzhu, 民初女作家呂韻清言情小說的駢體文與日常性黃錦珠

3:50-4:50 — Panel 5: Translating Worlds
Yuan Jin, 新文学的先驱——试论十九世纪来华西方传教士对中国文学的改变复旦大学中
文系袁进
Wang Hui, The Reconstruction of Classical Order in a New Concept of Time:
Yan Fu's Translation of Evolution
5:00 — Roundtable: Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies: Questions
of Methodologies and Media
Andrew Jones, Moderator

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible. No reservations
required.

If you have any questions, please contact Elinor Levine, Program Director,
Center for Chinese Studies at ccs at berkeley.edu