The Soundscape in Shanghai New-Sensation School’s Fiction

2019-03-12

Lecture：The Soundscape in Shanghai New-Sensation School's Fiction
Speaker：Dr. KWOK Sze Wing (Department of Chinese, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
Date：2019/3/12（Tue.）15: 30-18: 20
Venue ：Room C402, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University

Abstract
Unlike landscape studies which lay stress on visuality, this seminar looks into the work of Shanghai new-sensation school from the perspective of soundscapes and sound technologies. It analyzes how modern audio experiences were transformed into the narrative works and how new transcultural intertextuality and erotic imagination were constructed, in order to explicate the cultural politics in the writing of Shanghai new-sensation school and the cosmopolitism and modernity in Shanghai during the 1930s.
 
Speaker Bio
Dr. KWOK Sze Wing is an assistant professor in the Department of Chinese at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. She is also a member of editorial board of Hong Kong literature journal Fluers Des Lettres. Her research interests include modern Chinese literature, literature and film, Honk Kong literature and creative writing education. Her ongoing research projects concern the relationship between auditory technologies and Chinese modernity, post-97 Hong Kong literature and literary publicness.

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