Dear List Members,
The 71st annual KFLC conference is taking place on the campus of the University of Kentucky in the next couple of days, from April 19th to 21st.
Please check out the following program for the East Asian Studies sessions and join us if you are able!
Thursday, April 19, 2018 – 9:00am to 12:00pm
From Mao to Now
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, Room A
Thursday, April 19, 2018 – 9:00am to 12:00pm
Organized by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky ; Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Melody Yunzi Li, Transylvania University
9:00: Things Lost and Found in Digitally Performing “The Legend of the White Snake”
Liang Luo, University of Kentucky
9:30: Young Taiwan and the Spirit of Protest: National Identity and Political Action Among Taiwanese College Students
Bridget Nicholas, University of Kentucky
10:00: Marginalized Female Characters in Geling Yan’s Novels
Xiaoyang Li, University of Canterbury
10:30: Coffee Break
11:00: Running Away From Mao-ti in Contemporary China
Miao Dou, Washington University in St. Louis
11:30: Home-Building in Mao-Era—The Dialectic between Politics and Family in Yan Geling’s The Criminal Lu Yanshi
Melody Yunzi Li, Transylvania University
Thursday, April 19, 2018 – 10:00am to 12:00pm
Gender and Morality in Premodern China
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, Room H
Thursday, April 19, 2018 – 10:00am to 12:00pm
Organized by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky ; Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Li Zeng, University of Louisville
10:00: Reading Order in Early Biographical Histories
Lei Yang, Carleton College
10:30: Coffee Break
11:00: The Obscure Zone In-Between: Early Chinese Theory on Empathy in Gu Yue Jing Zhuan
Ying Wu, Peking University
11:30: Speaking in Her Voice: Allusion, Metaphor, and Male Forlornness in Li Shangyin’s Love Poems
Li Zeng, University of Louisville
Thursday, April 19, 2018 – 2:00pm to 5:00pm
The Politics of Culture in Modern China
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, Room A
Thursday, April 19, 2018 – 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Organized by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky ; Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Tonglu Li, Iowa State University ; Keisha A. Brown, Tennessee State University
2:00: Aubrey Pankey and Performativity of Blackness in Maoist China
Keisha A. Brown, Tennessee State University
2:30: Pioneers Traveling between Spain and China: the Transregional Image Construction of Battlefield Poets During the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Nan Qu, Peking University
3:00: Envisioning Hero-ism: Wenyi Biopic in Republican Cinema
Yee Lok Tam, Hong Kong Baptist University
3:30: Coffee Break
4:00: Religion through the Lens of the May Fourth Enlightenment: A Discussion Centering on the Cultural Practices of the Zhou Brothers
Tonglu Li, Iowa State University
4:30: Mandarin Teacher as Author: Language and Ethnicity in Lao She’s 1931 Xiaopo de Shengri
Noah Arthur Weber, Washington University in Saint Louis
Thursday, April 19, 2018 – 2:30pm to 3:30pm
We Media Vs. They Media (Part One)
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, Room C
Thursday, April 19, 2018 – 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Organized by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky ; Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Zixue Tai, University of Kentucky
2:30: New Media “Circle” Communication and Information Response of New Audience
Dayong Zhou, Jilin University
3:00: The Ecology of Chinese We Media Network Language: The Queer Outburst and the Queerer Disappearance of Online Buzzwords in China’s Social Media Networks
Zhaojuan Song, Qufu Normal University
3:30: Coffee Break
Friday, April 20, 2018 – 9:00am to 12:00pm
We Media Vs. They Media (Part Two)
Patterson Hall, PH 119
Friday, April 20, 2018 – 9:00am to 12:00pm
Organized by: Zixue Tai, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Zixue Tai, University of Kentucky
9:00: The Role of WeChat Public Accounts in Promoting Community Development: Lessons for Conventional Newspapers
Genyuan Jiang, University of Kentucky
9:30: The Formative and Communicative Characteristics of Public Opinion via WeChat
Qun Li, Minjiang University, China
10:00: State-Orchestrated Digital Media Initiatives: Comparing the Cases of China and South Korea
Yun Long, Communication University of China
10:30: Coffee Break
11:00: We Media Chatter about Consumer Brands in China: A Data-Driven Assessment of Product Branding among Urban Consumers
Cheng Dai, Minjiang University, China
11:30: From the High Ground to the Mundane Tune: An Ecology of the We Media Landscape in China
Min Zhou, University of Kentucky
Friday, April 20, 2018 – 9:30am to 12:00pm
The Folk and the Poetic from Late Imperial to Contemporary China
Patterson Hall, PH 128
Friday, April 20, 2018 – 9:30am to 12:00pm
Organized by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky ; Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Jie Gao, Murray State University
9:30: “Heaven and Earth Grant Me this Life at Leisure”: An Analytical Study of Yongzheng Emperor’s Leisure Poetry
Mengke Zhou, George Washington University
10:00: Folklore Studies in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Jie Gao, Murray State University
10:30: Coffee Break
11:00: On Cross-cultural Interpretation of She Minority Folk Songs
Ellen Du, University of Kentucky
11:30: From the Transformation of Chinese Painting to the Reconstruction of Cultural Identity in Contemporary China
Liqing Xue, Nanjing Tech University
Warmly,
Liang
羅靚 Luo, Liang Ph.D.
Faculty Director, International Village Living and Learning Program
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of Kentucky