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A China Book Slam: New Small Works on a Big Country
The Forum for the Academy and the Public will host a second book slam event, "New Small Works on a Big Country." This event features an eclectic range of topics in the China field, from surveillance in Xinjiang to transcultural sci-fi, united by a rather counterintuitive thread: despite China’s vast size and long history, these books are all delightfully short.
"New Small Works on a Big Country" will celebrate four timely publications, The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower—A Retelling of Our Times by Linda Jaivin, For the Love of Hong Kong: A Memoir from my City Under Siege by Hana Meihan Davis, Found in Translation: New People in 20th Century Chinese Science Fiction by Jing Jiang, and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler.
This conversation will feature special commentary from Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, Sabina Knight, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Smith College, Xiaowei Wang, writer, artist, and filmmaker, and Thomas Mullaney, Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University. Jeffrey Wasserstrom will moderate.
This will be a hybrid live event taking place at UC Irvine in Humanities Gateway 1030 and, via streaming, everywhere else.
"New Small Works on a Big Country" will celebrate four timely publications, The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower—A Retelling of Our Times by Linda Jaivin, For the Love of Hong Kong: A Memoir from my City Under Siege by Hana Meihan Davis, Found in Translation: New People in 20th Century Chinese Science Fiction by Jing Jiang, and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler.
This conversation will feature special commentary from Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, Sabina Knight, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Smith College, Xiaowei Wang, writer, artist, and filmmaker, and Thomas Mullaney, Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University. Jeffrey Wasserstrom will moderate.
This will be a hybrid live event taking place at UC Irvine in Humanities Gateway 1030 and, via streaming, everywhere else.
4000 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697
Humanities Center Nov 9 2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HG1030 & Zoom