Speaker:
Professor Shih-Diing Liu, Department of Communication, University of Macau
Moderator:
Dr. Daniel Vukovich, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Friday, January 26, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: Room 1069, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU, and on Zoom
The growing political conflicts unfolding in China provide an opportunity for rethinking the cultural politics of emotion. Although the political formations in the region can be laden with a multitude of emotions, they tend to be poorly understood. In their forthcoming book, Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China, Shih-Diing Liu and Wei Shi explain why affect and emotion matter to politics from Mao Zedong to the present. The book investigates the dynamics of political passions and the contexts from which emotional subjects engage in hegemonic struggles through the creation of various cultural forms, including Maoist art and popular films. We argue that cultural feelings and emotional experiences are crucial for understanding political struggle, as well as debates about the cultural dilemma of the Chinese Dream.
Shih-Diing Liu is Professor of Communication at the University of Macau. His research has appeared in Positions, Social Movement Studies, New Media and Society, and New Left Review. He is the author of The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (State University of New York Press, 2019).
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