Emerging Research on
Modern East Asian Literature
2025/26 Seminar Series
Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913-1941
Speaker: James ReichertAssociate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature | Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures | Stanford University
Moderator: Daniel PochAssociate Professor | Japanese Studies | The University of Hong Kong
DATE: 6 NOV 2025 (THU) 12:00–1:30 pm (HKT)
VENUE: ON ZOOM
2022-23 Fall Semester
2022-23 Spring Semester
2021-2022
2021-22 The First Semester
Inaugural Lecture
Global Healing and the Covid Era:
Literature, Advocacy, Care
Speaker: Karen Thornber (Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations | Harvard University
Date: 29 September 2021 (Wed), 8:00–9:30 pm (HK Time)
How (Not) To Find Yu Dafu:Refractions across the Transpacific
Speaker: Clara Iwasaki (Assistant Professor | Department of East Asian Studies | University of Alberta)
Date: 20 October 2021 (Wed), 10:00–11:30 am (HK Time)
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Figures of the World:The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form
Speaker: Christopher Hill (Associate Professor | Asian Languages and Cultures | University of Michigan)
Date: 10 November 2021 (Wed) 10:00–11:30 am (HK Time)
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From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea
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Speaker: Yoon Sun Yang (Associate Professor | World Languages & Literatures | Boston University)
Date: 1 December 2021 (Wed), 10:00–11:30 am (HK Time)
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2021-22 The Second Semester
Cold War Reckonings: In the Shadow of Solzhenitsyn
Jini Kim Watson, Associate Professor of English, NYU
Jan 26, 2022 (Wed), 10:00-11:30 am (Zoom, HKT)
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Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture
Shengqing Wu, Professor of Chinese literature,
the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
March 2 (Wed), 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm (Zoom ONLY, HKT))
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The Translatability of Revolution:
Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture
Pu Wang, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
Mar 30 (Wed), 10:00-11:30 am (Zoom, HKT)
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The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age
Hoyt Long, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Apr 27 (Wed), 10:00-11:30 am (Zoom, HKT)
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