IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing

Virtual Workshop: Transcultural Encounters Between Russia and East Asia


Detailed program

Day 1 (April 17, Sat)
 
9:00 - 9:50 pm Keynote speech
  - “The Chinese Appropriation of Russian Texts during the Inter-War Years”
Prof. Katerina CLARK (Yale University)

 
10:00 - 11:20 pm Session A) Encounters and transformations
  - “Science and Mythology in Manchurian Prose of Nikolai Baikov”
Prof. Olga Anatolyevna VOLKOVA (Clemson University)

 
  - “Departure from Western Modernity: Russian Literature and Futabatei Shimei in the Making of Kunikida Doppo”
Dr. Yu SAKAI (University of Oxford)

 
  - “Nikolai Konrad and his Project of “World Literature” in the USSR”
Prof. Shunichiro AKIKUSA (Nihon University)

 
  - “Dual Homeland: Cho Myoung-hui and the Origins of Koryo Saram (Soviet Korean) Literature”
Prof. Susanna Soojung LIM (University of Oregon)
 
11:25 pm - 12:25 am Session B) The circulation of ideas
  - “Life as Form-Giving Concept: China, Russia, Idealism”
Prof. Roy CHAN (University of Oregon)

 
  - “From Commune to Cooperative: Translation and Localization of Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread
Prof. Andrew Way LEONG (University of California, Berkeley)

 
  - “Bringing Up Asia: Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Children in a Russian International Children’s Home”
Prof. Elizabeth MCGUIRE (California State University, East Bay)
 
Day 2 (April 18, Sun)
 
9:00 - 9:50 pm Keynote speech
  - “Doing Transnational Intellectual History from Below: Underground Origins of Japan’s Russia”
Prof. Sho KONISHI (University of Oxford)
 
10:00 - 11:20 pm Session C) Modernism and post-modernism
  - “Chinese Stories for International Readers: Aesthetics of Xiao San’s Russian Poems”
Prof. Zhen ZHANG (Renmin University of China)

 
  - “Love Lost in Transmission and Translation: Kollontai’s 'Theory of a Glass of Water' in the Early Soviet Union, Japan and May Fourth China”
Prof. Sasha Hsiang-Yin CHEN (Academia Sinica)

 
  - “Poetry in the Era of Reform: The Russian Poetics of Chinese Avant-Garde”
Prof. Jinyi CHU (Yale University)

 
  - “A Different Version of Socialist Realism: Revolutionary Romanticism in China and its Reconfiguration by Mo Yan”
Prof. Xiaolu MA (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 
 
11:25 pm - 12:25 am Session D) Cinematic internationalism
  - “Stalled at Friendship Station: Under Ancient Desert Skies and Cinematic Internationalism on the Eve of the Sino-Soviet Split”
Prof. Edward TYERMAN (University of California, Berkeley)

 
  - “The Translation and Reception of Soviet Acting Theories in Chinese Socialist Cinema”
Prof. Jessica CHAN (University of Richmond)

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