The Right, Social Movement, and the Chinese Revolution
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
4:00 PM
The Chinese Studies Program
at UCSD presents:
Fall 2008 Lectures
All Fall 2008 lectures are co-sponsored by the Department of Literature and will take place at de Certeau Room, Literature Building, 4:00 pm
Ban Wang (Stanford University): “The Right, Social Movement, and the Chinese Revolution”
Ban Wang received his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles, and is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He specializes in modern Chinese literature and culture, psychoanalysis, international politics, literary theory and aesthetics, transnational cinemas, and diaspora studies. He is the author of The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China (Stanford, 1997; Chinese edition 2008), Narrative Perspective and Irony in Chinese and American Fiction (Mellen, 2002), Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory and History (Stanford, 2004), and History and Memory in the Shadows of Globalization (in Chinese, Nanjing, 2006); co-editor of Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations (Hong Kong, 2004). His lecture is a critical response to the emergence of right discourse in present-day China.
Tel: (858) 534-6477
chinesestudies@ucsd.edu
Sponsor(s): Chinese Studies Program, UC San Diego
