Vernacular Sociology & Modern Girl Iconography in the Interwar Years in China
A talk by Tani E. Barlow
Thursday, May 11, 2006
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Vernacular sociology is the general or categorical term Barlow gives to social theories popular among urbane, middle class, city-dwellers during the interwar years. Vernacular sociological thinking predated sociology as a discipline, and it continued to proliferate during the effort to establish departments of sociology in China's modern universities. In this talk Barlow presents evidence that the advent, popularity and significance of vernacular sociology is linked to the commercial modern girl phenomenon.
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Tani E. Barlow (Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1985) is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Washington. Her fields of interest include modern Chinese intellectual history, feminist theory, and gender and social science. Professor Barlow is the founding senior editor of the journal positions: east asian cultures critique. She has written, among others, The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (Duke U. Press, 2004), and is editor or co-editor of Cinema and Desire: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Marxist Dai Jinhua (Verso, 2002), Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism (Duke U. Press, 1994), and Body, Subject, and Power in China (U. of Chicago Press, 1994),
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Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
gunde@ucla.edu
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies
