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Damian M @damiandamiani.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The first #ChinaComx workshop last week was a great success! Engaged discussions, provocative questions, fun talks, and overall a greatly inspiring two-and-half days of engaging with lianhuanhua and other Chinese comics. Thanks to all participants for taking their time!

Full room at Barbara Mittler’s opening keynote!

Stephan Packard delivered the second keynote

We ended the workshop with a hands-on session to browse the CATS Seifert Chinese Comics Collection

ChinaComx PhD candidates Jiu Song and Aijia Zhang in conversation with Stephan Packard

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 03/09/2024

Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"

布衣中，問英雄。
王圖霸業成何用？
禾黍高低六代宮。
楸梧遠近千官塚。
一場惡夢。

Standing in humble homespun robes,
I question history's men of great esteem:
What use were all your kingly plans;
How long endured the tyrant's scheme?
Palaces from the Six Dynasties
Now fertilize the farmer's grain,
And scraggly catalpa trees
Mark loyal ministers' remains:
All history is one bad dream.

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Sarah Dauncey @ Uni Nottingham considers affective visions of disability in the 2nd #BACS2023 keynote “Emotional subjects: Citizenship, identity and the emotional world of disability in China”

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Leigh Jenco @ London School of Economics investigates moral responses to inequality in her paper “Validity and the Cult of Qing (Passion) in Late Ming Poetic Criticism” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Kar Yue Chan @ Hong Kong Metropolitan Uni explores the poetics of grief in her paper “Epitomizing the Poignancy in Poetry and Cantonese Opera: “The Heartbreaking Poetry” of Zhu Shuzhen” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Moxuan Luo @ Uni Hong Kong kicks off day 2 of #BACS2023 with his paper “The Evolution and Political Imagination of "Wu Hu Jiang"(五虎將) in Ming and Qing Fictions”

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Dylan K. Wang @ SOAS gets historical with his paper “Depicting Chinese Murders: Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee Mysteries as Illustrated by Himself” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Lindsey McLean-Melchor @ Uni Grenada considers the intersection of the personal and the political in her paper “Woman-Author, Woman-Subject: (Auto)biographical trends in non-fictional literature (2002-2019) by Chinese-British author Xue Xinran 薛欣然 (1958-)” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Yaqi Zhang @ Uni Leeds foregrounds the audience in her paper “A Case Study of the Reception of the Translation of Legends of the Condor Heroes Written by Jin Yong” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Mary Mazzilli @ Uni_of_Essex considers strategic self-fashioning in “Exophony, Translation, and Transnationalism in Sinophone contemporary writers” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Didn’t manage to get any pics—too much multitasking for my poor older millennial brain—but here are the abstracts for this fantastic panel #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Yang Shaoyu @ uniofwarwick delves into micro-narratives of wartime life in her paper “Memory Lost and Revived: Representations of the Nanjing Massacre in the Novels of Chinese American Writers and their Self-Translation” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Karita Kan @ HongKongPolyU questions ‘the end of rural China’ in the first keynote of #BACS2023 “Seeds of change: Fifteen years of China’s rural transformation”

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Yantao Sun (University of Leeds) investigates love and heroism in her paper “Reinventing ‘heroic sons and daughters’: a rising hybrid genre of web romantic fiction and the popularism imagination of self-community relationship in contemporary China” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Anna Antong Chen (University of Sydney) explores the mechanism of irony in her paper “The trauma narrative in Wang Xiaobo’s fiction: irony, memory and identity” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Will Gatherer (University of Queensland) gets meta with his paper “Anxiety in the anthropocene: Post-postmodernism and eco-consciousness within the contemporary novels of Ma Yuan (马原)” #BACS2023

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

I’ll also be chairing panel B5: New Media, New Art for #BACS2023, which will be held in the SE wing of Bush House, floor 2, room 10, Thursday 7 Sept 14:00 – 15:30.

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Nick Stember @beckminster.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

For anyone who will be attending the British Association of Chinese Studies conference King's College London (Thur 7– Fri 8 Sept), I will be presenting a paper for panel F8: Making Do: Politics, Tradition, and Identity in Postsocialist Chinese Visual Cultures. #BACS2023 (thread)

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