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Anthony Yu
Schedule

Symposium Schedule

Swift Third Floor Lecture Hall
1025 E. 58th St.

Persons may require assistance, please contact Suyoung Son at son@uchicago.edu.

Saturday | Sunday
---Saturday, May 27, 2006
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
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Panel I: Moments of Cultural Redefinition 
Chair, Norma Field, University of Chicago
Martin Huang, University of California, Irvine 
"Passion for Friends: Li Zhi’s Tragedy and His Pursuit of Friendship"

Judith Zeitlin, University of Chicago
"Song-within-Song and Play-within-Play in Seventeenth-Century Drama"

Wai-yee Li, Harvard University
"Feminine Diction and Male Literary Communities during the Ming-Qing Transition"
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10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 p.m.
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Panel II: Gender and Power
Chair, Wu Hung, University of Chicago

Yiqun Zhou, Valparaiso University
"Tan-chun’s Garden: Sentiment, Household Management and Family Decline in Dream of the Red Chamber"

Liangyan Ge, University of Notre Dame
"Castration, Remasculinization, and Upward Mobility in The Precious Mirror of Ranked Flowers"
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12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
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Panel III: Translation and Theories of Literature
Chair, Michael Murrin, University of Chicago 

James St. André, University of Manchester
"The Development of British Sinology and Changes in Translation Practice: The Case of Sir John Francis Davis (1795-1890)"

Pauline Yu, ACLS, Columbia University
"Nineteenth-Century Translations of Chinese Poetry into French"
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3:00 - 3:15 p.m. 
 Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
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Panel IV: The Pleasures and Dangers of Reading 
Chair, Josh Scodel, University of Chicago 
Robert Hegel, Washington University
"The Pleasures of Reading Chinese Fiction"

Yuming He,  University of Chicago
"Laughing Matters: On Woodblock Print and Cultural Change in the Late Ming"

Ling Hon Lam, University of Chicago
"A Stele of Forgetfulness: An Unmemorable Name List at the End of the Phonetic Quest in The Flowers in the Mirror"
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5:00 p.m.
Reception
 
 
Saturday | Sunday
---Sunday, May 28, 2006
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
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Panel V: Religion and Fiction
Chair, Donald Harper, University of Chicago 

Qiancheng Li, Louisiana State University
"Transmutations of Desire: Drama and Narrative in Late Imperial China"
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10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 p.m.
 


 
 
 

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Roundtable on Translation and the Chinese Novel 
David Roy, University of Chicago
Andrew Plaks, Princeton University
Robert Hegel, Washington University
Anthony Yu, University of Chicago
Conference will end at noon.
About
Schedule
Participants
Abstracts
Anthony Yu

Persons who may require assistance, please contact Suyoung Son at son@uchicago.edu.

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