MCLC: AAS panel in memory of Zhang Hui

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Wu, Shengqing <swu03 at wesleyan.edu>
Subject: AAS panel in memory of Zhang Hui
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Dear Colleagues,

I write to cordially invite you to attend an AAS panel, dedicated to the
memory of our colleague and friend Zhang Hui, which will take place at
8:30AM on Saturday morning. Those of us who were fortunate enough to know
him well were deeply impressed with his precocious intellect and his
exemplary scholarship and productivity, but also with his genuine
friendship, humility and devotion. His sudden death on March 15, 2013 in
Beijing has caused the ripple effects across China’s contemporary
intellectual circles. The outpouring of sentiment speaks to the magnitude
to which his short life has touched and inspired others. Zhang Hui’s
former teachers and friends are getting together in this meaningful venue
to celebrate his contributions to the field of Chinese poetry, while
furthering our shared critical interest on the intertwined relationships
among history, emotion, and lyricism.

A short biography of Zhang Hui as well as the panel’s program are enclosed
below. Thirty copies of three of his works will be available for free at
the panel. These books were donated by Sha Xianyi, Zhang
Lin, and Zhejiang University Press.

Thank you, and I look forward to seeing you at the AAS!

Best regards,
Wu Shengqing 


 
 
Zhang Hui 張暉, born in 1977 in Chongming Island, Shanghai, received his BA
and MA from Nanjing University and his PhD from the Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology in 2005. He also held a postdoctoral position at
Academia Sinica in 2008-2009. His last position was at the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences. His first work the Chronicle of Long Yusheng 龍榆生先生年
譜, his third-year thesis as an undergraduate student, immediately received
critical claim upon its publication in 2001. His major work China’s
Tradition of “History in Verse” 中國“詩史”傳統 (Xusheng shuju,2007; Sanlian,
2012), offers rich and ingenious examination of the relationship between
history and lyricism in China’s poetic thoughts. His editorial efforts
range from works by Long Yusheng, Shi Shuyi, Huang Kai, and Chen Shixiang,
to a series of rare sources of modern literature, to a new journal Modern
Literature Criticism 近代文學評論 that he was excitingly preparing to launch
until the days before his sudden departure on March 15, 2013. His
unfinished book manuscript Exile of the Empire 帝國的流亡, one of a trilogy
that he was writing on the Ming-Qing transitional culture, was
posthumously published by the Social Science Press earlier this month. His
death was mourned by many of his teachers, friends and readers. Numerous
accounts of his short life and memorial essays can be found at this
website: http://www.douban.com/doulist/1937489/
 

In Mourning: Poetic Affect and Historical Commitment in Late Imperial and
Republican China---A Dedication to Dr. Zhang Hui (1977-2013)

Time: Sat Mar 28, 2014,  8:30am to 10:30am
Location: Philadelphia Marriott,
Level 3 - Liberty Salon C
 
Chair: Leonard Kwok Kou Chan
Hong Kong Institute of Education
 

1) Memory Minus Empathy? Poetics of Nostalgia and Its Discontents in Early
Qing China
 
Ling Hon Lam, University of California, Berkeley
 

2)  Writing Posterity: Suicide Poems and (Post)Loyalism during the
Ming-Qing Transition
Chien-hsin Tsai, University of Texas at Austin
 

3) Confucian Poetics, the Politics of Sound, and the Imaginary of Peace in
East Asia: Long Yusheng (1902–1966) in 1940s Nanjing
Shengqing Wu, Wesleyan University
 

Discussants:  Hongsheng  Zhang, Hong Kong Baptist University
 
Lawrence C.H. Yim, Academia Sinica