How is nostalgia relevant to New Chinese Cinema? Its avowed forward-looking politics notwithstanding, New Chinese Cinema in the 1980s surprisingly sustains nostalgic for the foregoing age. The talk will introduce the conceptualisation of nostalgia in both China and the West before drawing a detailed picture of the nostalgic cinema. King of the Children (Haizi Wang, Chen Kaige, 1987) will be read as an example, in which sundry voices of the past bespeak a reflective and non-political nostalgia. The talk also welcomes inspirations on the relation between nostalgia and Hong Kong New Wave.
Speaker: Mr. September Liu
Moderator: Prof. Dina Iordanova
Speaker Bio:
September Liu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film Studies, University of St.Andrews. His current research focuses on nostalgia and Chinese New Waves. He has received an MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Downing College, University of Cambridge, and two BAs in English and Chinese Literature at Peking University.
Date:6 November 2018 (Tue)
Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Venue:Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
