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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/latin-american-travelers-and-r
 evolutionary-china-in-the-global-1960s-a-story-of-disencounters/
SUMMARY:Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960
 s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the
  David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\n\nIn the Global 1960
 s\, many Latin American leading intellectuals\, such as Pablo Neruda\, Jos
 é Venturelli\, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia\, visited Maoist China\
 , which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureau
 cratic systems. This talk tries to reconstruct the experiences of their (d
 is)encounters with revolutionary China in the 1960-70s\, through travelogu
 es\, memoirs\, documentaries\, archival records\, and contemporary novels.
  I will appropriate Contemporary Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez
 ’s Volver la vista atrás (2020) as Ariadne’s thread to sketch several
  Latin American travelers’ trajectories in Revolutionary China’s labyr
 inth. Key Latin American travelers’ experiences not merely synergistical
 ly created a Chinese version of Tricontinentalism and global solidarity\, 
 but rather creatively modified some of the uniform discourses of Mao Zedon
 g's thought on literature and culture into centrifugal and transgressive c
 ritique. My central argument is that the pioneering literary and cultural 
 creativity of the cross-border Latin American travelers led the way in the
  conceptualization of socialist cosmopolitanism\, rather than economic and
  trade cooperation in the 1960-70s. After five decades of the global 1960s
 \, facing Latin American postmemory archives\, such as Volver la vista atr
 ás\, this talk\, by challenging fixed epistemological patterns\, seeks to
  suggest new perspectives towards the transnational utopian ruins.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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