MCLC: Fashioning of New Cultural Spaces

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Fashioning of New Cultural Spaces
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The Fashioning of New Cultural Spaces: Between Performance, Print, and
Visuality in Late Imperial and Republican China
The Ohio State University
May 4 and 5, 2012

 
Keynote Address

Friday, May 4, 050 Hagerty Hall
Wei Shang (Associate Professor, EALC, Columbia University)
³The Grand Prospect Garden and Its Visual Representations, 1791-1919²
 
Saturday, May 5

ICS Graduate Forum, 180 Hagerty Hall, 9 am

Opening Remarks:

Wei Shang (EALC, Columbia University)
 

9:30 am-12 pm: The Work of Performance
 

Introduction: Ying Zhang, History, The Ohio State University
Presenter: Mi Zhao (PhD candidate, History, University of Oregon
"Ma Xianglan (1548-1604) and Her Talented Men: The Late Ming Courtesan
On-stage and Off-stage, at Sea and
Overseas²
Discussant: Patricia Sieber, DEALL, The Ohio State University
 

Summarizer: Heather Inwood. DEALL, The Ohio State University
Presenter: He Man (PhD candidate, DEALL, The Ohio State University)
"From the Theatrical Novel to Amateur Drama: Creating Performance Space in
Tian Han's The Night the Tiger was Caught (1924)"
Discussant: Richard Torrance, DEALL, The Ohio State University
 

12 pm- 1 pm Lunch Break
 

1:00 pm -3:30pm: The Work of Editions
 

Introduction: Kirk Denton, DEALL, The Ohio State University
Presenter: Mengjun Li (PhD candidate, DEALL, The Ohio State University)
"Thinking Outside the Examination Box: Redefinitions of ³Genius² in early
to Mid-Qing Scholar-Beauty Fiction
(1644-1795)"
Discussant: Ying Zhang, History, The Ohio State University
 

Introduction: Patricia Sieber
Qin Chen (PhD student, DEALL, The Ohio State University)
³The Game of Pictures, Words, and Performance: A Comparative Study of Four
Editions of ³The Sixth Book of Genius²
Discussant: Peggy Wang, History of Art, Denison University
 

Closing Remarks:
 

Patricia Sieber, DEALL, The Ohio State University
 

Sponsors: 

The Institute for Chinese Studies; The East Asian Studies Center; The
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State
University