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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2015/09/03/comparative-politics-in-literature-and-language-cfp/" target="_blank">Comparative Politics in Literature and Language–cfp</a></h3>
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<p><b>Call for Papers:</b><br />
<b>Comparative Politics in Literature and Language: China 66 Meets Singapore 50</b><br />
Organizer:<b> </b>Sophia Tingting Zhao, University of San Francisco<br />
Co-Organizer:<b> </b>Ming Chew Teo, Stanford University<br />
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 23, 2015<br />
ACLA Conference Location: Harvard University<br />
Time: March 17-20, 2016</p>
<p class="p1">Our panel proposes a comparative study between China and Singapore while examining the uncanny similarities in their historical complexity and modern construction. Focusing on four elements, culture, economy, law, and politics, this panel aims at deciphering the “Chinese Dream” proposed by Chairman Xi Jinping and “Asian values” implemented by ex-Prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. With regard to these four elements, challenges faced by both countries include: shared technological and economic dream in creating soft-power; shared vision for a strong legal system in establishing law and order; Chinese neo-Confucianism dream and Singapore’s Asian values in establishing a people with strong cultural roots; different legacies from socialist and capitalist ideologies that aim to achieve an utopian communist China and an utopian capitalistic Singapore respectively.</p>
<p class="p1">2014 and 2015 witnessed the initiation of the Chinese dream and Singapore's 50th birthday, it also witnessed sharp criticism on China’s environment and the tragic passing of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew. A re-evaluation of China and Singapore's literature, culture, and history is thus more urgent than ever. Unprecedentedly, this panel brings the two countries into comparative paradigm, exploring the utopian Chinese and Singapore dreams through textual, audiovisual, and material artifacts. We will invite scholars who specialize on Chinese and Singapore’s literature, language, and film to examine the countries’ future in light of its past.</p>
<p class="p1">Possible paper topics include but are not limited to:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">-How literary imagination gets transformed into political reality, thereby contributing to the field of comparative politics and the study of aesthetics and politics.<br />
-The rationale and outcomes of language policies in China/Singapore.<br />
-How does Chinese and Singapore film industry go from obscurity towards global visibility?</p>
<p class="p1">Please send 250 word abstract and brief bio to Sophia Tingting Zhao <a href="mailto:tzhao14@usfca.edu"><span class="s2"><a href="mailto:tzhao14@usfca.edu">tzhao14@usfca.edu</a></span></a> and Ming Chew Teo <a href="mailto:mcteo@stanford.edu"><span class="s2"><a href="mailto:mcteo@stanford.edu">mcteo@stanford.edu</a></span></a></p>
<p class="p1">We welcome proposals for individual papers on all theoretical approaches by September 23, 2015. Here is the link to the website:</p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.acla.org/seminar/comparative-politics-literature-and-language-china-66-meets-singapore-50">http://www.acla.org/seminar/comparative-politics-literature-and-language-china-66-meets-singapore-50</a></span></p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on September 3, 2015 </div>
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