The Mr. Simon Suen and Mrs. Mary Suen Sino-Humanitas Institute is very glad to invite Professor Hui Faye XIAO from The University of Kansas, USA to give a presentation at Hong Kong Baptist University this September, and share her findings and insight on the transmedia interplay between literature and cinema.
The Book and Sword in Exile: Gendered Soundscape and Poetic Aesthetics in Ann Hui’s Cinema
Organizers: Department of Chinese Language and Literature – Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy & Mr. Simon Suen and Mrs. Mary Suen Sino-Humanitas Institute
Date: 24 September 2024, Tuesday
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Venue: Room 512, Lui Ming Choi Centre, Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University (LMC512)
Speaker: Professor Hui Faye XIAO (Professor of modern Chinese literature and culture, The University of Kansas, USA)
Moderator: Professor Zhang Hongsheng (Director, Mr. Simon Suen and Mrs. Mary Suen Sino-Humanitas Institute, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Language: Mandarin
Abstract:
許鞍華是香港新浪潮一代中至今仍在堅持創作的導演之一，她的作品吸引了眾多海內外學者和影評人的關注。然而，在對許鞍華作品的研究中，關於她影片中聲音的政治美學的深入分析卻還未多見。本次講座嘗試通過細聽許鞍華影片中的性別音景來探討文學和電影之間的跨媒體互動，尤其是導演如何通過日常音景的詩學想象來對武俠文學傳統中的書劍主題在電影媒體裏進行再現、拓展、反思和重寫。
About the speaker:
Hui Faye Xiao is Professor of Chinese Studies and served as the Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas between 2019 and 2024. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture (2014) and Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China: Morning Sun in the Tiny Times (2020). She has also co-edited (with Dr. Ping Zhu) the volume Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (2021). Currently she is working on a new monograph tentatively titled The Hen Cackles in the Morning: Gendered Soundscape and Female Leadership in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.
All are welcome to register and participate.
Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/Xa8C4bRGqg