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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150925T100000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/international-symposium-shen-c
 ongwen-and-modern-china/
SUMMARY:International Symposium: Shen Congwen and Modern China
DESCRIPTION:\n	Sponsored by the CCK Foundation for International Scholarly 
 Exchange\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, the Harvard University Departm
 ent of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and the Fairbank Center fo
 r Chinese Studies\n\n\n	Shen Congwen (December 28\, 1902 – May 10\, 1988
 ) was one of the greatest modern Chinese writers cum scholars on par with 
 Lu Xun. Yet\, for decades\, Shen Congwen was overlooked by literary histor
 ians in the People’s Republic of China due to his stylistic iconoclasm a
 nd ideological nonconformism. It is only in recent years\, since his nomin
 ation for the Nobel Prize for Literature and passing in 1988\, that Shen h
 as won increased attention from readers and researchers. Amidst a growing 
 “craze” for his life\, literary works\, and scholarship\, this symposi
 um seeks to critically reassess Shen Congwen’s contribution to modern Ch
 inese cultural\, ethnic\, literary and art history. The symposium hopes no
 t only to critique the strengths and limitations of prevailing trends in S
 hen Congwen Studies\, but also to explore the possibilities of reading She
 n Congwen in a dialogical light and reposition Shen as an interface betwee
 n modern Chinese literary and cultural studies capable of enabling fruitfu
 l comparisons.\n\n	 \n\n	Above all\, the symposium hopes to situate Shen 
 Congwen in the tumultuous historical context from the early Republican era
  to the Cultural Revolution\, and rethink the contested process by which a
  modern Chinese intellectual writer came to terms with his time as well as
  his own life. The symposium will focus on the following four themes:\n\n	
 \n		Shen Congwen and the May Fourth: Nativism\, Regional Culture\, and The
  Polemics of Realism\n	\n		Shen Congwen during the Revolutionary Era: Art 
 as a Form of Resistance\; Revolutionism vs. Liberalism\; The Poetics of Se
 lf-Negation\n	\n		Shen Conwen after 1949: the Politics of Esoteric Writing
 \; Shen Congwen as an Art Historian.\n	\n		Shen Congwen and His Legacy: Cr
 itical Lyricism in Modern China\n\n\n	The conference will be conducted in 
 English and Chinese.\n\n	 \n\n	More information
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