Month: March 2024

不可能三角與不現身的說書人：張愛玲《傳奇》的讀寫攻略

分享嘉賓 Speaker:  邵棟 博士 Dr. Shawn SHAO (HKMU)
主持人 Moderator: 黃心村 教授 Prof. Nicole HUANG (HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: March 26, 2024 (Tue) 16:30-18:00pm
語言 Language: 普通話 Putonghua
地點 Venue: KK101, K.K. Leung Building, Main Campus, HKU

摘要 Abstract:
《傳奇》作為張愛玲成名之作，為讀者研討品味久矣。而張愛玲其中的寫作策略，也成為學者與小說家們關心的文化政治與敘述技巧的表徵。《傳奇》是否完美無缺？張愛玲有哪些常用的寫作手段？模仿張愛玲如何可能？將成為本次講演會嘗試解答的部分問題。本次演講《傳奇》這本書的寫作策略和閱讀策略，內容會分為以下幾個部分：其一對張愛玲《傳奇》中的名篇（《封鎖》、《第一爐香》等作品）做創意寫作的拆解分析，詮釋其中的連環畫式的分場與剪輯技巧，以及其它常用敘事手段；其二，以《金鎖記》《傾城之戀》等為例，分析張愛玲女性書寫中慾望、道德、金錢的不可能三角；其三，敘事者的在場不在場，和張愛玲寫作的信心問題。 

As the work that brought Eileen Chang fame, Romances has long been a subject of discussion and admiration among readers. Chang’s writing strategies in this work have also become emblematic of cultural politics and narrative techniques, captivating the attention of scholars and novelists. Is Romances flawless? What are Chang’s frequently employed writing techniques? And how can one emulate her style? These questions will be addressed in this talk, which will be divided into the following sections: firstly, a creative writing approach will be adopted to analyse the masterpieces in Chang’s Romances (such as “Blockade” and “The First Brazier”), deciphering the techniques of sequential storytelling and editing reminiscent of a comic strip, as well as other commonly used narrative devices; secondly, an exploration of the impossible triangle of desire, morality, and money in Chang’s female writing will be presented, using “The Golden Cangue” and “Love in a Fallen City” as examples; and finally, the presence and absence of the narrator, as well as the issue of self-confidence in Chang’s literary craftsmanship, will be discussed.

講者簡介 About the Speaker:
邵棟 香港大學中文學院博士。現為香港都會大學人文社會科學院創意藝術系署理系主任、助理教授。主要研究範圍是現代小說與南社，華語系文學與電影。有學術專著《紙上銀幕：民初的影戲小說》(2017 年)。業餘從事小說創作，2022年推出首部短篇小說集《空氣吉他》，入選第六屆寶珀理想國文學獎決名單。 

Shawn SHAO received his PhD from the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Sinophone literature, film studies, and Nanshe studies. He is the author of the scholarly monograph The Silver Screen among Pages: A Study of Yingxi Fiction in Early Republican China (2017). He is also a fiction writer. His first collection of short stories, Air Guitar, published in 2022, has been selected as a finalist for the 6th Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize.

This event is held as part of the New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series |
張愛玲研究新方向講座系列 
Co-hosted by School of Chinese and Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Co-sponsored by Louis Cha Fund for Chinese studies & East/West studies in the Faculty
& Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC)

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Speaker:
Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Lecturer in English Literature, UCL

Moderator:
Beth Harper, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

Date: Monday, March 11, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time (9:00 am London)
Venue: On Zoom

Last year Anthony Ossa-Richardson published (with his colleague Richard Oosterhoff) a translation of the 1526 Cosmography and Geography of Africa by the Moroccan diplomat al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, commonly known as Johannes Leo Africanus. This was the first book about Africa published in Europe and the main written source of knowledge about the continent until the eighteenth century. The translation is the first (in any language) to be based on the only known manuscript of the work, which was rediscovered in 1931. In this talk, Ossa-Richardson will discuss some of the circumstances of the manuscript discovery and its seismic implications, not only for the nature of the work itself, but for our understanding of intercultural communication in the Renaissance more generally. He will argue that, understood in its full context, the manuscript offers a powerful challenge to our notion of ‘decolonisation’. 

Anthony Ossa-Richardson is a lecturer in English literature at UCL. He has written two monographs, the more recent of which is A History of Ambiguity, an account of the way readers posited, denied, conceptualised and argued over the presence of multiple meanings in texts from antiquity to the twentieth century. In addition he has authored around thirty essays on various aspects of literary and intellectual history, including recent pieces on Proust, George Eliot, and the seventeenth-century pamphleteer John Taylor. He is currently completing a monograph on postwar British architectural thought.

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Speaker:
Mingwei Song, Professor of Chinese Literature, Wellesley College

Moderator:
Pei-yin Lin, Associate Professor, School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong

Date: Thursday, 7 March 2024
Time: 4:30 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: CBA, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU

“Fear of seeing” constitutes the converting point of my thinking about the poetics of science fiction. Overcoming the “fear of seeing” to represent the invisible energizes this genre. Science fiction is an imaginary realm that opens up infinite new possibilities and inspiring new ways of telling stories about China and the world. Through analyzing representative works of the major authors of the new wave, I explore how the representation of the invisible creates political meaning and poetic resonance that has led to larger changes in the contemporary literary paradigm.

Mingwei Song is a Professor of Chinese Literature at Wellesley College. He is the author of Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959 (Harvard, 2015) and Fear of Seeing: The Poetics and Politics of Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia, 2023). He is the co-editor of The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First Century Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia, 2018). His Chinese-language publications include New Wave in Chinese Science Fiction: History, Text, Poetics (2020), Criticism and Imagination: Collected Critical Essays (2013), and Sorrows of a Floating World: A Biography of Eileen Chang (1996; second edition, 1998).

This event is presented by the Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster as part of its Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature series. The series is coordinated by Prof. Su Yun Kim (suyunkim@hku.hk), Prof. Pei-yin Lin (pylin@hku.hk), and Prof. Alvin Wong (akhwong@hku.hk), and is supported by the School of Chinese, School of Humanities, and School of Modern Languages and Cultures.For registration of the seminar, go to www.meal.hku.hk or https://bit.ly/MEAL7Mar. This event is organized with the support of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

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