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Chinese Russophiles AAS panel–cfp
A panel proposal for the AAS 2016 conference in Seattle on March 31-April 3
Chinese Russophiles in Revolutionary China: Translation, Mediation and Travel
Zhen Zhang, PhD Candidate, University of California, Davis (panel presenter and co-organizer)
ABSTRACT:
Chinese Russophiles played a significant role in shaping the modern Chinese literary scene and social thought at the beginning of the twentieth century. Russophiles injected refreshing and transformative ideas in the intellectual culture of China, a dynamic cultural sphere that was open to many critical thoughts and literary movements in the waning days of the Qing dynasty. Such process of appropriation was more often than not achieved by active translations of Russian literary works, critical reception of Russian social thought and intellectuals’ self-fashioning during their travel in Russia. Although most scholars recognize the crucial impact of Russian socialist realism on the Chinese leftist literary movement in the 1930s, the significance of early adaptation of Russian culture by Chinese Russophiles in the late Qing dynasty and early Republican period is undervalued.  This panel seeks to explore how Sino-Russian encounter shapes modern Chinese intellectual culture, literary orientation and social formation in the first two decades of the twentieth century. By drawing examples from creative as well as theoretical writings, the panelists with both specialist and comparatist backgrounds attempt to reexamine some of the key figures and crucial issues in the Sino-Russian cultural encounter, an experience that had exerted powerful influence on modern China, entailing significant cultural, social, and political consequences that are yet to be fully appreciated.
If you are interested in participating in the panel either in the capacity of a presenter or a discussant/chair, please contact me at jnzhang at ucdavis.edu by Monday, August 3rd, 2015.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on July 24, 2015
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