講者名稱: Prof. Kirk
A. Denton
講者簡歷:
Kirk Denton specializes in the fiction
and literary criticism of the Republican period (1911-1949). He regularly
teaches undergraduate courses in modern Chinese literature in translation,
Asian American film, and Chinese film, as well as graduate courses and seminars
on modern Chinese fiction, the writer Lu Xun, popular culture, Taiwan
literature, and Chinese film. He is especially interested in the inception and
formation of a discourse of modernity in the May Fourth period and how that
discourse was to some degree informed and shaped by traditional concerns.
Professor Denton's edited collection, Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings
on Literature. 1893-1945, was published by Stanford University Press in 1996.
Two years later, his The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu
Feng and Lu Ling was also published by Stanford. He is associate editor of the
Chinese section of The Columbia Companion to Modern East Literature (Columbia,
2003) and a coeditor of China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future
(Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002). He is co-editor,
with Michel Hockx, of Literary Societies in Republican China (Lexington, 2008).
He also edited China: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts, 2008). He
has published several articles on museum culture, including in The China
Quarterly and Japan Focus, and he is presently writing a book on the politics
of historical representation in museums and memorial sites in Greater China
entitled Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics and Ideology
of Museums in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Denton is
editor of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and manager of the
online MCLC Resource Center, which hosts the MCLC LIST, a listserv devoted to
scholarly discussion on the culture of modern and contemporary China.
活動摘要:
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演講摘要(Abstract):
Exhibiting the Future: Municipal Urban
Planning Exhibition Halls
The talk concerns the remarkable and
unique appearance in the PRC of municipal urban planning exhibition halls in
major metropoles and smaller cities around the country. These exhibitionary
spaces project utopian images of the future through an array of dazzling
multimedia displays. The talk focuses on such “museums” in Shanghai, Beijing,
Suzhou, and Chongqing and explores the links between their utopian
representations and the new ideology of the market in contemporary China. These
exhibitionary spaces also construct visions of the past that serve as
foundations for imagining the future. In this sense, they must be seen in
conjunction with the representations of the past and the tension between the
local and the national found in other museums and exhibitionary spaces in the
PRC.
活動時間: 星期四, 十二月 10, 2009
- 10:00 to 12:00
活動地點: 中興大學語言中心萬年樓5樓502室
主辦單位 | 國立中興大學人文與社會科學研究中心
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