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Panel I
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Narrating Chinese Diaspora: Identity Issues, Cultural Variations and Representation
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Chair |
Professor Eva Kit Wah Man
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Description |
This panel proposes to review various forms of narration among Chinese diaspora in different areas of the world that are articulating subjectivities. Speakers will discuss new identity formation and cultural variations the Chinese diaspora groups have formed and developed. The panelists will review biographical writing, curatorial narration in public displays, song compositions in Chinese languages, visual arts and moving images reflecting on their living in diaspora. The panel will look at 1) how the representations of diaspora are constituted by the sensual and performative media through which diasporans enact their felt autonomy, and a “space” they claim to own; 2) how the narratives mediated are subjectified through circulation in the networks of Chinese diaspora to create new forms of aesthetics, disseminating care and support for social existence. |
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Keynote Speaker |
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Professor Gregory LEE, School of Modern Languages, St. Andrews University, United Kingdom. Topic TBC: Perspectives: Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Literature URL: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languages/people/chinese/gbl1/
Short bio: Professor Gregory Lee specialises in the culture and cultural history of China and its diaspora from the nineteenth-century imagining of China the nation-state to today. His areas of interest include collective memory, censorship, the technical/technological society, the Anthopocene, and the ideology and representation of work. He is particularly interested in the contribution premodern, pre-Chinese thought — as found in the Zhuangzi — may make to the resolution of contemporary problems. His current research project involves creating an archive, and writing a multi-volume history, of Chinese culture 1976-2025.
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Panelists |
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Professor Henry YU, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia, BC Canada.
Topic: "Hope and Sacrifice and Networks of Desire: An Affective History of the Cantonese Pacific for the Last Three Centuries" URL: https://acam.arts.ubc.ca/henry-yu/
Short bio: Professor Henry Yu plays an important role in researching the history and the lives of Chinese Canadians. His book, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2001) won the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize as the Most Distinguished Book of 2001, and he is currently working on a book entitled How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Finding Ourselves in History. Currently, he is the Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research on Chinese Canadians (INSTRCC) and the Principal of St. John's College at UBC, as well as a Board Member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (CCHSBC). |
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Professor Stephen Yiu Wai CHU, School of Chinese, Hong Kong University.
Topic: “Include Me Out”: The Diasporic Imaginaries of Hong Kong Cantopop URL: https://repository.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01773
Short bio: Professor Stephen CHU is Professor and Director of Hong Kong Studies Programme, The University of Hong Kong, and Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities. His research focuses on postcolonialism, globalization and Hong Kong culture and has published widely in the field of Hong Kong Studies. He is the chief editor of the Hong Kong Studies: Humanities Perspectives, Global Dialogues series published by Brill, and two Chinese-language book series on Hong Kong – “Cultural Hong Kong” and “Hong Kong Popular Lyricists” – published by Chung Hwa Book Company.
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Dr
Kit HUNG,
School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster, United Kingdom.
Topic: "Carrying Home: Family Artefact and Personal Storytelling, an audio-visual diary" URL: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/hung-kit
Short bio: Dr Kit Hung studied film and got his M.F.A. in Studio (Film, Video and New Media) from Chicago Art institute, US. He has taught at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and the Academy of Film at the Hong Kong Baptist University and the School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster, UK. He is a Yale-China Art Fellow and an independent filmmaker, his films have won international awards, most notable for his film Soundless Wind Chime (2009), which has won international awards and was distributed in Germany, Hong Kong, North America, France and the United Kingdom. |
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Professor Eva Kit Wah MAN, Chair professor, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.
Topic: Aesthetics, Creativity and The Construction of Chinese Diaspora Subjectivities: Case Studies URL: https://www.hkmu.edu.hk/as/people/staff-profile/?email=evaman&unit=AS&po=N
Short bio: Professor Eva Man's research expertise lies in philosophy of art, comparative aesthetics, gender and cultural studies and Neo-Confucian philosophy. Her research grants cover Hong Kong Visual Arts History, Hong Kong dance choreography studies, aesthetic discourses in contemporary China and comparative aesthetics. She was a Fulbright scholar affiliated at the Chinese Studies Center, UC Berkeley US. She is also a life fellow of the Clare Hall College of the University of Cambridge, UK, an AMUW endowed professor at the Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US and Kiriyama endowed Professor at the Center of Pacific and Asia Studies at the University of San Francisco, US. She is now serving at Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Acquisition Committee of M+, and the Board of Tai Kwun Arts and Heritage Company. |
