{"id":3158,"date":"2015-05-04T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T03:41:02","slug":"fragmentation-of-self-and-discourse-in-the-nineteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3158","title":{"rendered":"Fragmentation of Self and Discourse in the Nineteenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May 7, 2015<\/strong> (Thursday), 4:30-6:00 pm<\/div>\n
CPD-2.37, Centennial Campus, HKU<\/div>\n
English and Putonghua<\/div>\n
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Poetry as Evidence:
\n<\/strong> Fragmentation of Self and Discourse in the Nineteenth Century
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Speaker: Professor Xiaofei Tian \u7530\u66c9\u83f2 (Harvard University)<\/div>\n
Moderator: Professor Shu-mei Shih \u53f2\u66f8\u7f8e<\/div>\n
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Late imperial Chinese culture was a theater culture, and the metaphor of theater had a large intellectual significance for social life. \u00a0This talk argues that poetry writing became part of the cultural role-playing in the nineteenth century, and that the multiplicity of roles assumed by a member of the cultural elite, roles carefully kept apart from one another, demonstrates a strange self-dismemberment and the failure of the neo-Confucian vision of a unified self. How was this fragmentation manifested, and what did it mean for our understanding of Chinese literature?<\/em><\/div>\n
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May 7, 2015 (Thursday), 4:30-6:00 pm CPD-2.37, Centennial Campus, HKU English and Putonghua Poetry as Evidence: Fragmentation of Self and Discourse in the Nineteenth Century \u6709\u8a69\u70ba\u8b49\uff1a\u5341\u4e5d\u4e16\u7d00\u7684\u89d2\u8272\u626e\u6f14\u8207\u8a71\u8a9e\u7684\u5272\u88c2 Speaker: Professor Xiaofei Tian \u7530\u66c9\u83f2 (Harvard University) Moderator: Professor Shu-mei Shih \u53f2\u66f8\u7f8e Late imperial … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1603,1602,1601],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-OW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3152,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3152","url_meta":{"origin":3158,"position":0},"title":"Translation, Chineseness, & World Literature in Chinese Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"May 8, 2015 (Friday), 4:00-5:30 pm Room 730, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Foreign Echoes & Discerning the Soil: Translation, Chineseness, & World Literature in Chinese Poetry Presenter: Lucas Klein; Commentator: Xiaofei Tian \u7530\u66c9\u83f2 What constitutes the relationship between world literature and Chineseness? 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