On Apr. 10, join Professor Sophie Volpp (University of California, Berkeley) as she investigates the context behind and implications of rare books from the National Library of China being sent to the United States in 1941 through published and unpublished archival documents.
Rethink the conceptions of verisimilitude as well as mimetic illusion with Professor Sophie Volpp (University of California, Berkeley) as she examines scenic illusion paintings of the Forbidden City through the lens of perspectivalism in Cao Xueqin’s mid-eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone.
The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium will be focused on the metaphors and concepts of possession and dispossession. While we speak of various kinds of “possession”—spirit possession, drug possession, weapons possession—“dispossession” is used mostly in terms of property, and especially land under colonialism. The term also evokes the difference between possession and ownership. But what […]
The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium will be focused on the metaphors and concepts of possession and dispossession. While we speak of various kinds of “possession”—spirit possession, drug possession, weapons possession—“dispossession” is used mostly in terms of property, and especially land under colonialism. The term also evokes the difference between possession and ownership. But what […]
GOLDEN GATE GIRLS, directed by S. Louisa Wei, is the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent women director in Hong Kong in the 1930s. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is sadly overlooked and most of […]
GOLDEN GATE GIRLS, directed by S. Louisa Wei, is the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent women director in Hong Kong in the 1930s. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is sadly overlooked and most of […]
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