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A Global Research Network: Zhiyi Yang’s Research Project »Sinophone Classicism«
The project, which has been running for three years, presents and discusses its results in publications and at international workshops. In May and June, scholars and artists came together at the Kolleg and at Goethe University to discuss the role of Sinophone cultural memories in a global, multicentric space.
The project »Sinophone Classicism: Chinese Cultural Memories in a Global Space,« led by Zhiyi Yang, Professor of Sinology at Goethe University Frankfurt and Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (FKH Bad Homburg), and launched at FKH Bad Homburg in the 2021/22 winter semester, has already produced a successful hybrid lecture series with more than two dozen renowned speakers, an online symposium between the universities of Harvard, Frankfurt, and Lingnan symposium, and a special issue of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature jointly edited by Yang and David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University) on »Classicism in Digital Times« (issue 20.2, 2023). The participants – scholars as well as artists – come from all parts of the world and from various arts and disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Paricipants at the workshop »GlobalSinophone Classicisms. Hybridity, Agency, and Critical Challenges« (Foto: privat)
In the summer semester 2024, the project culminated in the
workshop on »Global Sinophone Classicisms. Habridity, Agency, and Critical Challenges« with over twenty scholars held from May 10–11 at FKH Bad Homburg, a lecture by fellow-in-residence Prof. Tsu-chung Su (NTNU), and a Sini-Islamic calligraphic workshop led by the Chinese Muslim calligrapher Haji Noor Deen (Mi Guangjiang). The workshop brought together theory and practice as well as investigations on various forms of Sinophone classicisms across genres and media in the multicentered Sinophone space and cyberspace. Some papers examine the classicist articulations supporting or resisting the establishment in contemporary Chinese political speech, some focus on aesthetic practices in literature, the fine arts, and performative arts, and some investigate the cross-cultural and intermedial dimensions of Sinophone classicisms. A volume entitled
Global Sinophone Classcisims, jointly edited by Zhiyi Yang and David Der-wei Wang and to be submitted to a major university press, will further consolidate the results of the project. More events spanning academic and aesthetic practices are planned for the 2024/25 winter semester.
Contact: Prof Zhiyi Yang (z.yang@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
(FKH - 12.06.2024)
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