Speaker: Angie Chau, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, University of Victoria
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Monday, April 8, 2024
Time: 10:00 am Hong Kong Time
Venue: On Zoom
A brief stay in France was a vital stepping stone for many Chinese political leaders during the cultural and political push to modernize China after World War I. For Chinese students who went abroad to study Western art and literature however, these trips meant something else entirely. Set against the backdrop of interwar Paris, Paris and the Art of Transposition (University of Michigan Press, 2023) uncovers previously marginalized archives to reveal the artistic strategies employed by Chinese artists and writers in the early twentieth-century transnational imaginary and to explain why Paris played such a central role in the global reception of modern Chinese literature and art.
Angie Chau is assistant professor of Chinese literature and film at the University of Victoria. She has published articles on modern Chinese literature, art, film and internet culture, and her research interests include contemporary Chinese literature, popular culture, visual art, and translation. Her work has appeared in journals such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Concentric, and Chinese Literature Today, and various edited volumes.
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