May Fourth @ 100: China and the World, 1919-2019
April 12-13, 2019
Sponsored by: The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, Harvard University Asia Center, and Harvard-Yenching Institute
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THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1730 CAMBRIDGE STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA, 02138, IN THE TSAI AUDITORIUM OF THE CGIS-SOUTH BUILDING AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 12, 2019
9:30 Welcoming + Opening Remarks
David Wang, Michael Szonyi
9:40-10:40 Keynote Speech
Rudolf Wagner: Reconstructing May Fourth: The Role of Communication, Propaganda, and International Actors
Introduced by Ge Zhaoguang
11:00-12:10 Forum I: May Fourth and Cultural Mutation
Chair: Li Hsiao-t’i
Michael Hill: May Fourth and the Limits of Comparison
Ishii Tsuyoshi: What Did They Protest Against? –On the Possibility of the Reinterpretation of “Li” in “May Fourth” Discourse
Paola Iovene: May Fourth@10: Looking Backward from 1929
1:10-2:30 Forum II: Revolution and Utopian Politics
Chair: Jie Li
Pu Wang: The May Fourth Mobility: Travel Writing, World Making, and Utopian Geography
Andrew Rodekohr: Worlding May Fourth: Qu Qiubai’s Critique of Modern Chinese Literature
Wang Xiaojue: The Poetics of Landscape in May Fourth Literature.
Weijie Song, Shamanistic Narrative, Fragmentary Redemption: Imagining Northeast China Beyond the Great Wall
2:40-3:50 Forum III: May Fourth and the West
Chair: Ha Jin
Olga Lomova: From Periphery to Periphery – The Beginnings of ex libris in China
Chen Jingling: Under the Greek Sunshine: Zhou Zuoren in May Fourth
Ma Xiaolu: Translingual Negotiation and Concession: Relay Translation of Turgenev’s Stories in New Youth
4:10-5:10 Roundtable I: May Fourth Isn’t Yesterday
Chair: Catherine Yeh
Participants: Xia Xiaohong, Mei Chia-ling, Li Hsiao-t’i, Dai Yan, Li Wen-ching, Aki Tsumori
April 13, 2019
9:30-10:30 Keynote Speech
Chen Pingyuan: From “Touches of History” to “Exercises in Thought”: My Views on May Fourth and May Fourth Studies
Introduced by Olga Lomová
10:50-12:10 Forum IV: May Fourth and Korea and Japan
Chair: Leonard K.K. Chan
Ge Zhaoguang: China and Japan on the Diplomatic Stage of the May Fourth
Satoru Hashimoto: Reverberations of May Fourth in Japan
Lee BoGyeong: The New Era and Its Affects: The March First Sympathy and the May Fourth Shame
Younghwan Park: The Tragic Life of Independence Activist and Businessman Og Gwanbin：His Role in the “105 People Incident,” the “March-First Movement,” and His Exile Period in Shanghai
1:10-2:30 Forum V: May Fourth and the Sinophone World
Chair: Mei Chia-ling
Josephine Chiu-Duke, The May Fourth Liberal Legacy in Taiwan
Ko Eitetsu (Huang Ying-che): May Fourth and Its Continuation in Taiwan
Ko Chia-cian: Woodcravers and Soldiers: Lu Xun’s Legacies of Woodcut Print and Essay in Southeast Asia
Chan Hok Yin: “May Fourth” in Hong Kong: Local Voices in Commemorating a National Event
2:50-4:10 Forum VI: Contesting the May Fourth Anew
Chair: Karen Thornber
Leonard K.K. Chan: Hong Kong and the New Culture Movement: The Case of Yuan Zhenying
Carlos Rojas: Tradition and Diaspora: From Lu Xun to Ng Kim Chew
Mingwei Song: Can We Read “A Madman’s Diary” as Science Fiction?
Carlos Yu-Kai Lin: May Fourth Studies and It Contemporary Challenges
4:30-5:30 Roundtable II: From May Fourth to the Beyond
Chairs: Ellen Widmer and David Wang
Panelists: Kyle Shernuk, Jessica Tan, Tu Hang, Dingru Huang, Fangdai Chen, Jannis Chen, Peng Hai, Michael O’Krent, Yingchun Fan, Nan Qu, Joel Wing-Lun, Casey Stevens
Posted by: Kyle Shernuk <kshernuk@fas.harvard.edu>