A guest lecture by Prof. Hangping Xu (UCSB), sponsored by The Wellington K.K. Chan Fund for Distinguished Visitors in Chinese Studies
Event Date: Apr. 14, 2021
This talk uses the rise of Yu Xiuhua as a celebrity poet to shed some light on contemporary Chinese society. It pays particular attention to disability representations, gender politics, and the role of social media in literary production. Selectively reading Yu's poetry as well as analyzing Fan Jian's film Still Tomorrow, the talk will also consider the global reception of Yu Xiuhua in order to think through such questions as translation and world literature.
