Date and Time: 18:00, November 14, 2023
Venue: Room 401, Teaching Building B
Content: Since the opening of Shanghai, a distinctive overseas Shanghai image has emerged in Western cultures and literatures, and this image has been evolving along with changes of China’s international standing. The lecture aims to systematically examine the classic texts that overseas cultural celebrities such as Spielberg, and texts by some influential Chinese, have employed in depicting Shanghai. This helps us contemplate the motivations and strategies behind these texts and through this reflection, we can reconsider the methods of “telling well China’s stories” and work towards constructing a positive and influential Chinese discourse in the field of international cultural exchange.
Organizers: Office of Academic Affairs, School of Arts and Sciences
About the Speaker: Zhu Hua, Ph.D. of Comparative Literature (Fudan University), is a professor at College of Foreign Languages of Shanghai Ocean University, and visiting scholar at the University of California and University of Florida. Professor Zhu specializes in interdisciplinary researches and his areas of research include world ocean literature, polar writing, Sino-American transnational writing, Pearl S. Buck, Shanghai studies, postcolonial criticism, and theories of diaspora and transnationalism. He has led social science fund projects such as “Shanghai in Sino-American Transnational English Writing since the 20th Century”. He has published over forty papers in core academic journals, with several papers reprinted by the Journal Reproduction Center of Renmin University of China. His monograph, Chinese Discourse of American Orientalism: A Study of Sino-American Transnational Writing of Pearl S. Buck, was awarded first prize of monograph by China Association for the Study of American Literature in 2015. Additionally, he developed a 51-episode MOOC series titled World Ocean Literature.
