Jun 11th, 2014 - TANG Xiaobing, “On the Implications of Aural Studies: Revelations of Poetic Works by Mu Dan and Ai Qing” (Si-mian Lectures on Humanities No. 211)

2014-06-04  

Title: On the Implications of Aural Studies: Revelations of Poetic Works by Mu Dan and Ai Qing

Lecturer: TANG Xiaobing (Helmut F. Stern Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan)

Chairperson: LUO Gang (Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University)

Date: 1 pm, June 11th, 2014 (Wednesday)

Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU

Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU

  

Abstract of the Lecture:

Through readings of poetic works by Mu Dan (1918-1977) and Ai Qing (1910-1996) in the 1930s-40s, I will address aural and visual experiences as pointing to two related and yet differentiated paradigms for historical inquiry. I will offer an assessment of “visual cultural studies” as an academic discipline and propose some concepts and approaches for an “aural studies.”

  

Brief Introduction of the Lecturer：

TANG Xiaobing is Helmut F. Stern Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, USA. His publications include Visual Culture in Contemporary China (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde (University of California Press, 2008), and Chinese Modern (Duke University Press, 2000). He is the editor of Re-reading (first ed. Oxford University Press in Hong Kong, 1993; republished be Peking University Press, 2007).