Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
April 21-22, 2023
Encina Commons, Conference Room 123, Stanford University
Friday, April 21
2:00 PM | OPENING REMARKS
2:15 PM – 4:00 PM | Technologies of Chinese Socialism
Aolan Mi, Indiana University Bloomington
“Let Mountains Lower their Heads”: Imageries of Nature in Railway Constructions in Socialist China
Song Han, Harvard University
Not for Approaching Reality: Standardizing the Color Television Test Card in China
Yuan Gao, Washington University in St. Louis
Regimentation and Rationalization: Red Flag Canal and Socialist Newsreel Documentary
Yingchuan Yang, Columbia University
Modest Technology: Repairing Radio Sets in Socialist China
Discussants:
Ban Wang, Stanford University
Kelly Fan, University of California, Berkeley
4:15 – 5:45 PM | KEYNOTE
John Crespi, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Colgate University
The Origins of an Indefinite Art: Independent Comics (Manhua) in China
Saturday, April 22
9:30 – 10:30 AM | Animals, Robots, Post-Humans
Qingyi Zeng, University of Michigan
Sinophonic Assemblage: Geopolitics, Energy Transition, and Chinese White Dolphins
Mengmeng Zhu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Robots Encountered China: Transnational Journey of R.U.R and the Structural Change in the Representation of “Man-made Humans”
Discussants:
Andrew F. Jones, University of California, Berkeley
Ting Zheng, Stanford University
10:45 – 12:15 AM | KEYNOTE
En Li, History, Drake University
Betting on the Civil Service Examinations in Late-Qing China: How was it Possible, and Why Did it Matter?
1:15 – 3:00 PM | Transnational Politics of Representation
Jiaqi Yao, University of British Columbia
Composing Authenticity: Borderlands, Travel Narratives, and Propaganda in WWII China, 1939-1943
Christopher Blackmore, University of Michigan
Imperial Displacements, Transnational Spaces of the Fascist Imaginary: Alarm in Peking and Die Tochter des Samurai (1937)
Aaron Gilkison, Stanford University
Ambushed by Honor: Moral Injury and PRC Narratives of the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict
James Meador, University of Michigan
‘Womn du sh udarnik’: The Shock Worker in Soviet Sin Wenz Literature
Discussants:
Puck Engman, University of California, Berkeley
Maciej Kurzynski, Stanford University
3:15 – 4:30 PM | Protests and Performances
Shaoyu Tang, The University of Hong Kong
Political In Between: Streaming Stand-Up Comedy and Feminist Reckoning in Contemporary Mainland China
Shan Huang, Stanford University
“We Are Really So Damn Fond of Hong Kong!”: The Affective Spatialization of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement
Aurélien Bellucci, Harvard University
Playing the Citizen’s Part: A Hong Kong Artist Stages Illegal Protests Online
Discussants:
Haiyan Lee, Stanford University
Mason Hinsdale, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 PM | CLOSING REMARKS
Posted by: Maciej Kurzynski makurz@stanford.edu