Margaret B. Wan’s Regional Literature and the Transmission of Culture provides a richly textured picture of cultural transmission in the Qing and early Republican eras.
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Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · New Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Revolution, with Denise Y. Ho Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University,
Wilt L. Idema and Xiaofei Tian introduce the Fairbank Center’s latest exhibition of eclectic treasures from Chinese history.
Joshua L. Freeman, Ph.D. Candidate in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University, introduces and presents a translation of Uyghur poet Perhat Tursun’s “Elegy.”
Jasmine Hu, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, examines recent female performances of ci poetry on Chinese television and the relationship between gender and genre.
The first comprehensive study of the lifework of Guo Moruo (1892–1978) in English, this book explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture.
Lei Ying, Graduate Student Associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, examines the influence of Buddhist texts on Chinese canonical writer Lu Xun.
As part of the Fairbank Center’s exhibition of dazibao (大字报 “big-character posters”) and woodcuts from 1960s China, we present a four-part series on Cultural Revolution-era artworks. Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, presents part 3 on the exhibitionism of dazibao.
作為費正清中心20世紀60年代中國"大字海報"和木刻展的一部分,我們展出了文化大革命時期藝術品的四部分系列。哈佛大學中國文學教授田曉飛介紹了第二部分:對達孜寶的意象和視覺活力的探索。
World-first Exhibition at Harvard displays “big character posters” from China’s Cultural Revolution Read our four-part blog post series on this exhibition: Exhibiting the Cultural Revolution, Part 1: Reading “Big-Character Posters”