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异质经验的重组：跨国视野下的二十世纪中国文化


UChicago Center in Beijing

Culture Plaza 20th Floor
59A Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing

Language: English

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The development of twentieth-century Chinese culture was inseparable from its encounters with the foreign amid shifting political alignments and power dynamics. Far from passive reception or simple resistance, these encounters involved ongoing processes of selection and adaptation. Ideas and forms acquired new meanings as they were translated and incorporated into local cultural projects. At the same time, Chinese culture itself went through transformation as it circulated transnationally. Moving beyond the familiar model of influence and response, Reassembling the Foreign approaches cultural exchange as a process of reassembly, through which the foreign is reconfigured, opening new possibilities of thought and cultural production.



Organized by Dr. Yueling Ji (National University of Singapore) and Prof. Yuqian Yan (Zhejiang University).



Schedule

DAY 1, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7

9:30-10:00 Coffee & Opening Remarks by Paola Iovene

10:00 AM–12:00 PM PANEL 1

Moderated by

Matteo Cavelier (Tsinghua University)

YAN Yuqian (Zhejiang University) — Making the Cinematic Scene: Changmian Diaodu in Chinese Film Theory

ZHANG Zhen (Renmin University of China) — Recycling Soviet Anti-imperialist Critique in China: Source Text and Adaptation in Window to America (1952)

ZHOU Xin (Concordia University) — Misaligned Grafts, Metabolic Mobiles: Audiovisual Knowledge and Traveling Technology in Early Socialist China

12:00–1:00 PM Lunch

1:00–2:30 PM PANEL 2

Moderated by

Yan Yuqian (Zhejiang University)

HE Qiliang (Hong Kong Shue Yan University) — Sentinels of the High Sky: Heroism, Desire, and the Korean War Film in Mao’s China

NAKAJIMA Seio (Waseda University) — Assembling and Translating China: Legend of the White Snake (1958) and the Transborder Making of Japanese Animation

2:30–3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:00–4:30 PM PANEL 3

Moderated by

Daniela Licandro (Tallinn University)

HUA Yang (Yale University) — Beyond the Clash of Religions: Secular Critique in Lenin and Li Dazhao

MA Xiaolu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) — Confession and Redemption: Yan Lianke’s Appropriation of Dostoevsky’s Exploration of Human Sin in The Four Books

6:00 PM Dinner



DAY 2, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8

9:30–11:00 AM PANEL 4

Moderated by

Paola Iovene (University of Chicago)

JI Yueling (National University of Singapore) — Russian Formalism in Macau: The Cultural Cold War and a Global History of Criticism

Maciej Kurzynski (Lingnan University) — Aesthetic Autonomy under Socialism: China’s Great Aesthetic Debate and the Polish Thaw of 1956 in Comparative Perspective

11:00–11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM–1:00 PM PANEL 5

Moderated by

Ji Yueling (National University of Singapore)

FENG Miao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) — Clash, Dialogue, and Critique: Chen Hansheng, the Chinese Agrarian Question, and Their Transnational Academic Encounters

PANG Laikwan (Chinese University of Hong Kong) — A Chinese Theory of Pluralism: Zhang Dongsun and His Philosophy of Democracy

1:00-2:00 PM Lunch

End of Symposium



Bio

Feng Miao 冯淼 (Mia) is a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History近代史研究所, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in History from New York University. She specializes in history and historiography of the Chinese Revolution, social intellectual history of twentieth-century China, gender and women’s history. She is currently working on two projects. One is on the role progressive intellectuals played in the left-wing social and cultural movement in twentieth-century China. The other is the international left during China’s anti-Japanese fascist war. She can be reached at mia.feng.historian@icloud.com.



He Qiliang 何其亮 is Professor of the Department of History at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. His research focuses on twentieth-century Chinese history, urban history, and cultural history. He published numerous books, including The People’s West Lake (2023), Working the System (2023), and Cinema and the Cosmopolitan City: Colonial Encounters in Shanghai, 1900–1930 (2027).



Hua Yang 华阳 is a scholar of modern Chinese literature and intellectual history. His research focuses on China’s cultural interactions with Russia since the late nineteenth century within the historical contexts of socialist internationalism and global secularism. He just received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University.



Ji Yueling 冀悦玲 is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. She holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on Chinese literary theory/criticism, philosophy of art, Cold War history, and Sino-Soviet relations. Her book manuscript, Chinese Literary Style: Aesthetic Judgment in the Cold War Era, examines the methodology of modern Chinese literary criticism and the political history leading to the development of the methodology; a related article, “Chinese New Critics: Close Reading as the Object of Aesthetic Judgment,” is forthcoming in Philological Quarterly.



Ma Xiaolu 马筱璐 is associate professor in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024). This book has received honorable mentions for both the Anna Balakian Prize and University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies. Her research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including JAS, PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Twentieth-Century China, among others.



Maciej Kurzynski 马杰 is assistant professor of Chinese and digital humanities at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in modern Chinese literature and culture from Stanford University and previously studied at the University of Warsaw and Zhejiang University. In his research and teaching, he draws inspiration from affective neuroscience and machine learning to expand the boundaries of literary studies. He is also the founder of the Quantitative Humanities China Lab (https://www.qhchina.org).



Nakajima Seio 中嶋 聖雄 teaches sociology and Asian studies at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. His research encompasses organizational analyses of the Chinese film industry and ethnographic studies of Chinese film audiences and consumption. His recent publications include “Transborder Assemblage: Legend of Hei in Japan,” Journal of Chinese Film Studies 5(3) (2025): 527–547. He also studies the next-generation automobile industry, particularly electric vehicles and autonomous driving, drawing on economic sociology, cultural sociology, and science and technology studies.



Pang Laikwan 彭丽君 is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, focusing on modern and contemporary Chinese cultures. She is particularly interested in exploring the tensions and possibilities at the intersections between culture and politics. She is the author of a few books. Her most recent book, One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty (Stanford University Press, 2024) is shortlisted for the W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize. The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement (University of Michigan Press, 2020) received the American Library Association Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and Creativity and Its Discontents: China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses (Duke University Press, 2012) received the Chiang King-Kuo Foundation Publication Award.



Yan Yuqian 严毓倩 is an Assistant Professor in the College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University. She received her Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on Chinese film history, media aesthetics, and the intersections of cinema, visual culture, and emerging technologies. She is currently completing a book manuscript on costume films in Republican China and developing a new project on historical mise-en-scène and cinematic space. She is also co-editor of Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media.



Zhang Zhen 张振 is currently an associate professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China. His research interests cover areas such as Sino-Russian comparative literature, literary and cultural theory, and Chinese-language cinema. His research articles appeared in journals such as Journal of World Literature, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, College English, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, The Modern Language Journal, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Performance Research and many journals in Chinese language. He is the author of the Chinese monograph Between Archipelagos: Border-Crossing in Comparative Literature Studies and the Chinese translator of Birth of the Anthropocene.



Zhou Xin 周昕 is a PhD candidate in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. His research focuses on state-sponsored science and education films from socialist China onward, with an emphasis on collecting, cataloguing, digitizing, and critically interpreting these discarded materials. More recently, he has examined the residues of socialist media and their unexpected intersections with the circular economies of analog film and agricultural production in China’s rural hinterlands. He has written for ArtReview Asia, The Brooklyn Rail, Film Comment, and Frieze, and has curated screening programs at Anthology Film Archives, ICA Boston, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, among others.

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