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May Fourth @100
May Fourth @ 100: China and the World, 1919-2019
April 12-13, 2019
Sponsored by: The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, Harvard University Asia Center, and Harvard-Yenching Institute
THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND FURTHER DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE
THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1730 CAMBRIDGE STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA, 02138, IN THE TSAI AUDITORIUM OF THE CGIS-SOUTH BUILDING AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 12, 2019
9:30 Welcoming + Opening Remarks
David Wang, Michael Szonyi
9:40-10:40 Keynote Speech
Rudolf Wagner: Reconstructing May Fourth: The Role of Communication, Propaganda, and International Actors
Introduced by Ge Zhaoguang
11:00-12:10 Forum I: May Fourth and Cultural Mutation
Chair: Li Hsiao-t’i
Michael Hill: May Fourth and the Limits of Comparison
Ishii Tsuyoshi: What Did They Protest Against? –On the Possibility of the Reinterpretation of “Li” in “May Fourth” Discourse
Paola Iovene: May Fourth at 10: Looking Backward from 1929
1:10-2:30 Forum II: Revolution and Utopian Politics
Chair: Jie Li
Pu Wang: The May Fourth Mobility: Travel Writing, World Making, and Utopian Geography
Andrew Rodekohr: Worlding May Fourth: Qu Qiubai’s Critique of Modern Chinese Literature
Wang Xiaojue: The Poetics of Landscape in May Fourth Literature.
Weijie Song, Shamanistic Narrative, Fragmentary Redemption: Imagining Northeast China Beyond the Great Wall
2:40-3:50 Forum III: May Fourth and the West
Chair: Ha Jin
Olga Lomova: From Periphery to Periphery – The Beginnings of ex libris in China
Chen Jingling: Under the Greek Sunshine: Zhou Zuoren in May Fourth
Ma Xiaolu: Translingual Negotiation and Concession: Relay Translation of Turgenev’s Stories in New Youth
4:10-5:10 Roundtable I: May Fourth Isn’t Yesterday
Chair: Catherine Yeh
Participants: Xia Xiaohong, Mei Chia-ling, Li Hsiao-t’i, Dai Yan, Li Wen-ching, Aki Tsumori
April 13, 2019
9:30-10:30 Keynote Speech
Chen Pingyuan: From “Touches of History” to “Exercises in Thought”: My Views on May Fourth and May Fourth Studies
Introduced by Olga Lomová
10:50-12:10 Forum IV: May Fourth and Korea and Japan
Chair: Leonard K.K. Chan
Ge Zhaoguang: China and Japan on the Diplomatic Stage of the May Fourth
Satoru Hashimoto: Reverberations of May Fourth in Japan
Lee BoGyeong: The New Era and Its Affects: The March First Sympathy and the May Fourth Shame
Younghwan Park: The Tragic Life of Independence Activist and Businessman Og Gwanbin：His Role in the “105 People Incident,” the “March-First Movement,” and His Exile Period in Shanghai
1:10-2:30 Forum V: May Fourth and the Sinophone World
Chair: Mei Chia-ling
Josephine Chiu-Duke, The May Fourth Liberal Legacy in Taiwan
Ko Eitetsu (Huang Ying-che): May Fourth and Its Continuation in Taiwan
Ko Chia-cian: Woodcravers and Soldiers: Lu Xun’s Legacies of Woodcut Print and Essay in Southeast Asia
Chan Hok Yin: “May Fourth” in Hong Kong: Local Voices in Commemorating a National Event
2:50-4:10 Forum VI: Contesting the May Fourth Anew
Chair: Karen Thornber
Leonard K.K. Chan: Hong Kong and the New Culture Movement: The Case of Yuan Zhenying
Carlos Rojas: Tradition and Diaspora: From Lu Xun to Ng Kim Chew
Mingwei Song: Can We Read “A Madman’s Diary” as Science Fiction?
Carlos Yu-Kai Lin: May Fourth Studies and It Contemporary Challenges
4:30-5:30 Roundtable II: From May Fourth to the Beyond
Chairs: Ellen Widmer and David Wang
Panelists: Kyle Shernuk, Jessica Tan, Tu Hang, Dingru Huang, Fangdai Chen, Jannis Chen, Peng Hai, Michael O’Krent, Yingchun Fan, Nan Qu, Joel Wing-Lun, Casey Stevens
Posted by: Kyle Shernuk <kshernuk at fas.harvard.edu>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on April 12, 2019
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