BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Asian Studies//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Asian Studies - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211018T0953Z-1634550836.1248-EO-53404-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T183716Z CREATED:20211015T214349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T204931Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20170315T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20170315T210000 SUMMARY: 2016/17 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Barbara Mit tler DESCRIPTION: The 2016/17 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Bar bara Mittler (University of Heidelberg) Lecture: Living the Cultural Revolu tion—Impact Events and the Making of Cultural Memory Why is it that for a while in the early 2000s\, Mao’s portrait dangled in almost every taxi? Wh y is it that Mao’s image is to be […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The 2
016/17 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg)
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Why is it that for a while in the early 2000s\, Mao’s portrait dangled in almost every taxi? Why is it that Mao’s image is to be found everywhere today\, in high-market as well as popular accessorie s? Why do numerous Chinese websites feature memories of producing and consu ming Maoist propaganda art? Why do people get married in “Cultural Revoluti on style”? Why are the model works and revolutionary songs most prominent d uring the Cultural Revolution reproduced in never-ending varieties of pop\, rock and jazz covers\, even in karaoke bars\, and on home videos? Why\, in short\, do people appreciate the products of a period in Chinese history k nown for its radical politics and the horrors it inflicted on so many?
< p>In addressing these questions\, Barbara Mittler will argue that the Cultu ral Revolution was an “impact event” that touched not only those who have w ritten about it—intellectuals\, the well-off\, the middle class—but everyon e down to peasants and workers. The Cultural Revolution was there for—or ag ainst—everyone. Taking her point of departure from three recent films\, fic tional and documentary: Bloody Snow by Peng Tao and My Cultural Revolution and Crime Summary by Xu Xing\, Professor Mittler will illustrate how\, in i nnumerable and even counterintuitive ways\, the Cultural Revolution’s polit ical hysterics reached even the most remote corners of a vast country. She will explore how the all-encompassing experience of living through the Cult ural Revolution has influenced the making of cultural memory in and beyond China.Wednesday\, March 15\, 2017
6pm - 9pm (P
acific Time)
Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
Tuesday\, March 14\, 2017
2pm - 4pm (Pacific Time)
Room 221\, West Mall Swing Space\,
2175 West Mall
Tuesday\, March 14\, 2017
4pm - 6pm (Pacific Time)
Room 604\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall
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About the Speaker
Prof. Dr. Bar bara Mittler is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Institute of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Heid elberg Centre for Transcultural Studies—Asia and Europe in a Global Context . Her hundreds of publications include the books Dangerous Tunes: The Polit ics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and the People’s Republic of C hina since 1949 (Harrassowitz\, 1997)\; A Newspaper for China: Power\, Iden tity and Change in Shanghai’s News Media (1872-1912) (Harvard\, 2004)\; and A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture (Harv ard\, 2012)\, which won the 2013 John K. Fairbank Prize from the American H istorical Association. She is a graduate of Heidelberg (Habilitation and Ph .D.)\, Oxford (B.A./M.A.)\, and Pearson College (I.B.) in Victoria\, B.C. p>
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their moth er\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture . Please visit the full lecture list here.
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