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China Perspectives / Perspectives Chinoises

Recent success of Chinese reality television singing competitions broadcasted on national television or streamed directly on the internet, has shown the extent of musical genres represented in the Chinese world, from pop to folk via hip-hop or rock ’n’ roll. The popularity of new musical styles up to then considered as deviant as well as the recent attempts of the State to intervene directly on musical contents, tend to blur the distinctions between “mainstream” (流行) music, “popular” (民间) music as non-official, “underground” (地下) music or even “alternative” (另类) music. This call for papers aims at promoting a better understanding of the transformations of Chinese “musical worlds”, in the sense that Becker gave to “art worlds”, which stresses the role of cooperation and interactions between the different actors of the artistic sphere.

Sheffield

Conference, symposium - Asia

New research on the History of Chinese gardens and landscapes

Organised by Dr Jan Woudstra in conjunction with the Gardens Trust, the event will look at new discoveries in the field from both professionals and post-graduate students from around the world. Dr Alison Hardie will introduce the conference and outline the importance that Maggie Keswick’s 1978 book The Chinese Garden, History Art and Architecture has played in the subject. It is a unique opportunity to hear speakers from UK and International institutions to present their new research in the field. Talks will cover subjects as wide-ranging as Jesuit water landscapes, gardens as museums, Feng Shui symbolism and botanical watercolours.

Lausanne

Call for papers - History

The Smaller European Powers and China in the Cold War, 1949-1989

This international conference aims to examine the policies of the smaller European powers towards China – and vice versa – during the Cold War. Thereby it focuses, on the European side, on both Western and Eastern Europe – regardless of whether a country was part of the NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Meanwhile, on the Chinese side, the conference proposes to include both Chinas, namely the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (RoC). While this should allow for the analysis of different relational constellations, the chronological framework – that ranges from the Communist victory in China in 1949 to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989 – should enable us to identify policy shifts and patterns.

Paris

Common Experiences, Common Desires ? Tracing an Intellectual History between China and Africa

Conférence ANR Espaces de la culture chinoise en Afrique (EsCA)

In his 1954 presentation to dignitaries from across Asia and Africa, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai acknowledged the differences between the two cultural spheres; nevertheless, Zhou stressed, a more important factor in all future relations should be the “common experiences and desires” of people from across the two continents to create a new world from the ashes of war and colonialism. Building on Zhou’s insight into commonalities of experience, this presentation will trace the cultural intersections that have existed between China and African since the 1920s.

Taipei

The Geopolitics of Film and Entertainment Industries Across the Taiwan Strait

Franco-Taiwanese Workshop

The Taipei office of the HK-based French Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CEFC, http://www.cefc.com.hk/rubrique.php?id=73) is inviting you to join a limited number of researchers in freely exchanging ideas about Cross-Taiwan Strait cinema and entertainment industries in a geopolitical perspective.

Lisbon

Conference, symposium - Representation

Face to Face. The transcendence of the arts in China and beyond

Our goals for the conference are to raise awareness of the artistic exchange and mutual influences between the Han Chinese arts and the arts from different cultural backgrounds in China itself, as well as beyond its geographical and cultural boundaries. We also aim to go through the issues on the construction of artistic identity and the balance between permeability and hegemony, tradition and innovation, convenience and misinterpretation.

Paris

Conference, symposium - History

Readings and uses of the Great Learning

Colloque international organisé par la chaire d’Histoire intellectuelle de la Chine du Collège de France. La Grande Étude est un petit texte qui a connu un large et long destin non seulement en Chine, mais aussi au-delà, notamment en Corée et au Japon où il a donné lieu à des développements considérables. Ce sont les multiples interprétations, utilisations, instrumentalisations et reconstructions de ce texte devenu canonique qui font l’objet du présent colloque réunissant des spécialistes internationaux de disciplines et de domaines très divers. / The core idea of this conference is to look into different modes of interpretation and implementation (philosophical, political, religious, etc) of the Great Learning in various historical and cultural contexts, in China, Korea and Japan, including the most contemporary aspects related to the “Confucian revival” of the past decades.

Lyon

Conference, symposium - Asia

History in images, History through images

The main theme of the present workshop is “Entertainment, Media and the Public Space” as documented in photographs and other pictorial images. As for previous meetings, participants are expected to work with photographic collections or others visual materials, and namely :- to take visual materials as the core material source of the presentation- to make an innovative use of a set of visual documents- to explore how visual materials may bring/allow a new perspective or approach or questioning on a given topic- to discuss the methodological implications/challenges in the use of visual materials.

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