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SUMMARY:Sailing to the Sinophone World: On Modern Chinese Literary Cartogr
 aphy - David Der-wei Wang (Edward Henderson Professor in Chinese Literatur
 e at Harvard University\, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Cent
 er for Sinological Studies\, and Academician\, Academia Senica)
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DESCRIPTION:This is the third of four public Humanitas events in Chinese S
 tudies by renowned scholar of Chinese Literature David Der-wei Wang.\n\n"D
 avid Der-wei Wang":http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/people/profile/david-der-we
 i-wang (Edward Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature at Harvard Univer
 sity\, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological 
 Studies\, and Academician\, Academia Senica) will give a series of three p
 ublic lectures on The Chinesesness of Chinese Literature and participate i
 n a concluding symposium on Wednesday 21 May 2014.\n\nSinophone Studies—
 the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of postcolonial and postsocial
 ist influences—has represented a forceful intervention with Chinese Stud
 ies since the turn of the millennium. This talk seeks to examine the recen
 t developments of Sinphone Studies and reflect on their theoretical premis
 es and geopolitical implications.\n\nThe talk is divided into three parts.
  The first part takes issue with the definition of “Sinophone” as a ho
 mogeneous discourse and highlights the potential of heteroglossia in any S
 inophone articulation. The second part proposes "post-loyalism” as a dia
 logical critique of the extant paradigm which is rooted primarily in post-
 colonialism and a renewed Cold-War spatial imaginary. The third part intro
 duces the poetics of “disposition\,” as inspired by the traditional Ch
 inese poetics of shi\, and suggests that beyond the geopolitics of “root
 \,” scholars should look into the momentum arising from the aesthetic an
 d humanistic engagement with Sinophone Studies.\n\nFor further information
 \, see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25338
LOCATION:Mill Lane\, Lecture Room 1
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