Dear all,
We are currently preparing a book on “China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces: Creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance”. The general outline of the book is available at the following URL address: goo.gl/Y7jbgx.
We already have a number of proposals, but we would like to invite one or two more chapters on the following topic: “Traveling in Space-Time: revisiting and reperforming history in youth cultural production”.
How do youth relate to the past and reimagine the history of China? How do they address articulations between a nostalgia for a dreamed past and the desire for a new world? What interstices can be found in the current expression of a cultural-nationalist revival? This panel examines how Chinese youths are trying to re-read their history and those of their ancestors and to build new communities based on so-called “Chinese traditions” through art and cultural
We are looking for contributions around this subject with a special focus on music, theater, visual art, new media or cultural performance. Additionally, we will host a workshop to discuss the papers to be published at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) in June 2018. Anyone who is interested can contact us directly for further information.
Best regards,
Vanessa Frangville (Chair in Chinese Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles) <vanessafrangville@gmail.com>
Gwennaël Gaffric (Postdoctoral research fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles)