Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents
Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature
Speaker: Xiaolu Ma
Assistant Professor | Division of Humanities | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Moderator: Edwin Michielsen
Assistant Professor | Japanese Studies | The University of Hong Kong
DATE: 27 SEP 2024 (FRI) 5:00–6:30 pm (HKT)
VENUE: ROOM 436, 4/F, RUN RUN SHAW TOWER, HKU
REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/MEAL27Sep2024
“Transpatial Modernity” offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era. Drawing on primary sources in all three languages—among others—Xiaolu Ma reveals how Chinese writers translated and appropriated Russian cultural tropes through the intermediary of Japanese writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Not limited to a dyadic relationship between source and target culture, “Transpatial Modernity” explores the implications of cultural brokerage within complex transculturation process, thus establishing the value of a new transpatial framework for understanding literary and cultural exchange in local, regional, and global contexts.
Xiaolu Ma is assistant professor in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She engages in research in the interrelationship of trans-Eurasian literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of “Transpatial Modernity” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024). Her research articles have been published or are forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals, including “JAS,” “PMLA,” “Comparative Literature Studies,” “Modern Chinese Literature and Culture,” “Twentieth-Century China,” among others.
The series is coordinated by Prof. Su Yun Kim (suyunkim@hku.hk), Prof. Pei-yin Lin (pylin@hku.hk), and Prof. Alvin Wong (akhwong@hku.hk), and is supported by the School of Chinese, School of Humanities, and School of Modern Languages and Cultures.
For registration of the seminar, go to https://bit.ly/MEAL27Sep2024.
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