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Jie Li — Socialist Hot Noise: Loudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Mao’s China

October 26, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Speaker: Li Jie, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her second monograph, Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Duke University Press, 2020), explores contemporary cultural memories of the 1950s to the 1970s through textual, audiovisual, and material artifacts, including police files, photographs, documentary films, and museums. Li has co-edited a volume entitled Red Legacies: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution (Harvard Asia Center, 2016). Her current book project, Cinematic Guerrillas: Maoist Propaganda as a Spirit Medium explores film exhibition and reception in socialist China, including movie theatres and open-air screenings, projectionists and audiences, as well as memories of revolutionary and foreign films. Her other research projects include a transnational film history of Manchuria and a cultural history of noise in modern China.

Presented via Zoom
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Date:
October 26, 2021
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf-ypqDIqH9XHuHa5_h4qWkMI_Rlu1N1W

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Department of East Asian Language and Civilizations
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