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“Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950”

Haiyan Lee (Stanford University)

5/3/2018
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Dartmouth 105
Intended Audience(s): Public
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Haiyan Lee is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Comparative Literature at Stanford University and has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Hong Kong, in addition to holding post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University and Cornell University. Her first book, Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2007), upon which her talk at Dartmouth will be based, is a critical genealogy of the idea of “love” (qing) in modern Chinese literary and cultural history and was the first recipient of the Joseph Levenson Prize in the field of modern Chinese literature from the Association for Asian Studies. She has also written The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination (Stanford University Press, 2014), which looks at how the figure of “the stranger” in Chinese fiction, film, television, and exhibition culture—foreigner, migrant, class enemy, woman, animal, ghost—tests the moral limits of a society known for the primacy of consanguinity and familiarity, and her current project explores Chinese visions of “justice” at the intersection of narrative, law, and ethics.
 
Sponsored by the Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages Program
For more information, contact:
Ann Fenton
ann.n.fenton@dartmouth.edu
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