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SUMMARY:Transpacific Celebrity: Xiao Hong\, Agnes Smedley\, and Eileen Chang
DESCRIPTION:The Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity and the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong present: \nTranspacific Celebrity: Xiao Hong\, Agnes Smedley\, and Eileen Chang \nSpeaker:\nClara Iwasaki\, Assistant Professor\, Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Alberta \nDiscussant:\nNicole Huang\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Comparative Literature\, School of Humanities\, HKU \nModerator:\nElizabeth LaCouture\, Director and Assistant Professor\, Gender Studies Programme\, School of Humanities\, HKU \nDate: Wednesday\, March 9\, 2022 \nTime: 10:00 am Hong Kong Time \nVenue: On Zoom \nAll are welcome. Please register and the link will be sent to you before the event. \nhttps://bit.ly/CIwasaki \nThis talk focuses on the way three authors\, Xiao Hong\, Agnes Smedley and Eileen Chang\, circulated around the transpacific. All three writers are strongly associated with autobiographical writings and in the case of Xiao and Chang\, their sensational biographies (particularly their love lives) have frequently overshadowed their writing. All three women deployed their literary personae\, but their control over their image was never absolute. Xiao Hong and Agnes Smedley were friends and more importantly\, they circulated each other’s works and literary images. Xiao Hong sees in Smedley’s work a universal feminist struggle. Smedley sees in Xiao Hong a vision of a progressive and particularly Chinese proletarian feminism. For Eileen Chang\, her autobiographical novels remained unpublished until many years after her death because her stark self-revelation was inconsistent with the image of old Shanghai glamor that her earlier fiction had conjured up. \nClara Iwasaki is an assistant professor in the department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. Her book Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions across the Transpacific was published by Cambria in 2020. \nThis event is organised with the support of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) and the Department of Comparative Literature\, School of Humanities\, HKU. \nEnquiries: Georgina Challen – gchallen@hku.hk
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/transpacific-celebrity-xiao-hong-agnes-smedley-and-eileen-chang/
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