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Shifting Sense of Self: Metamorphosis, Identity, and Memory in Chinese Literature

Session 9 - Sunday 4:30-6:00pm
Henry Hall 210
Presiding Officer: 
Alexei Ditter
  1. On Life after Death: Historical Self-Consciousness in the "Zuozhuan". Piotr Gibas, Reed College

    The narratological transformation in the Zuozhuan of the living into the dead and vice versa is a device used to present the moral quality of the portrayed characters.

  2. Dueling Dreams: Jiang Qing, the End of the Cultural Revolution, and Zong Pu’s “A Dream For Strings”. Roy Chan, College of William and Mary

    This paper explores personal and historical transformation in literature and journalism in the wake of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

  3. Humanizing My Robot Wife: Chinese Science Fiction in the Early 1980s. Jing Jiang, Reed College

    This paper examines the new definition of an ideal human, as well as the new configuration of the relationship between science and state in the 1980s China through reading three stories that involve failed romances between man and robot.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed