Historian and translator of Chinese comics & sci-fi, postdoc @Nationalmuseet, tree. He/him.
Joined December 2008
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Nick Stember 沈若昆 retweeted
24 Sep 2024
Beyond Captain America and Akira: Heroes and Villains in Chinese Comics and Caricature with Damian Mandzunowski & Lena Henningsen, Heidelberg University
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Nick Stember 沈若昆 retweeted
7 Sep 2024
With this September, our ERC-funded project #ChinaComx starts. Researching comics culture in the People's Republic of China, the project aims to bridge the fields of PRC history, global comics studies, and visual history. See chinacomx.github.io for details, and get in touch!
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Writing Chinese: Technology and Literature #CFP [special issue guest edited by @heatherinwood w/ keynotes by Michel Hockx & Jiang Yuqin] Deadline: 31st August 2024 u.osu.edu/mclc/2024/06/28/wr… @WritingChinese
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Nick Stember 沈若昆 retweeted
Still a few more days to enter our first Bai Meigui creative writing competition! Judged by @jennywcreative, @Kit_Fan_, and Karen Cheung, it's on the theme of 'Writing Hong Kong' - find out more here! Deadline June 30th. writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/t…
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19 Jun 2024
What foreign films have been popular in Chinese-language territories, with what audiences, when, and why? [And vis versa?] And what forces and practices have shaped those transborder flows and what are the impacts and results of those flows?
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19 Jun 2024
"Chinamaniacs, whether women or children, are too preoccupied with amassing ceramics that they have forgotten how to behave according to Victorian notions of ‘natural’ gendered behaviour and thus, 'chinamania was charged with moral corruption'" imagetextjournal.com/matthew…
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19 Jun 2024
"...Singaporean comics’ negative capability, in contrast to the Singaporean government’s political capacity to swiftly and robustly respond to the pandemic, opens up spaces for readers to reflect on social, political, and cultural circumstances surrounding the pandemic."
15.1 is out! It features Weihsin Gui on graphic medicine, Amy Matthewson on Du Maurier, and Sohini Naiya and Smriti Singh on Aranyaka. We also have some fantastic student-made zines in our "From the Classroom" section and a collection of new book reviews! imagetextjournal.com
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"Notes from the Consulting Room" (诊疗室手记) a short story by Zuo Fei 昨非 / translated by @dylanleviking and Yun Qin Wang for @PaperRepublic 's new series _Home_ paper-republic.org/pubs/read…
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16 May 2024
The relief prints of the woodblock on the cover are a nice touch — looks like early 50s marriage law?
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Nick Stember 沈若昆 retweeted
14 May 2024
CfP "to demonstrate the analytical potential of 'queer pop media in global Asias' in (re)negotiating, (re)positioning, and (re)formulating socio-culturally marginalized identities, subjectivities, and desire in a global cultural landscape" u.osu.edu/mclc/2024/05/09/qu…
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5 May 2024
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3 May 2024
Book launch: Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation. SOAS 5.00, 31 May. The editors will be there & a handful of contributors. I'll play a very small part indeed talking about my chapter for a few minutes #Sappho's Younger Brother
Big congrats to editors!
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24 Nov 2023
Jiang Jiehong @CCVAnetwork presents the third and final keynote for #CCVA2023 “Shanghai: Sleepless Theatre” beginning with a personal reflection on curation in post-Covid Shanghai
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Lan Xiao @UniofOxford considers shifting depictions of Shanghai in her paper “Behind the Aesthetics of the ‘Magic City’” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork
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24 Nov 2023
Shi Hantao presents the second #CCVA2023 keynote “Shanghai Spring: Photographic perspectives during the 2022 Covid lockdown” @CCVAnetwork
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24 Nov 2023
Weiying Yu @HongKongPolyU takes us to the hyperreal frontier in her paper “Islanding Media and Infrastructure: Ecological Space, Submarine Cable and the Aesthetics of Chongming Island” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork
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24 Nov 2023
Anqi Li @HKUniversity discusses urban renewal and gentrification in her paper “The Rise and Fall of Shanghai’s West Bund” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork
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24 Nov 2023
Hongwei Bao @ University of Nottingham presents a history of LGBTQ cultural expression in his paper “Queer Screen Culture in Shanghai: The Development of a Magical, Queer City” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork
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23 Nov 2023
Rafael Ortiz Martínez de Canero @ O R Studio considers the city as a living organism in his paper “Hybrid, Polymorphic and Borderline: The Contemporary Urban Experience of Shanghai from Domestic to Territorial” #CCVA2023
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23 Nov 2023
Karolina Pawlik @ XianJiaoTongUni plumbs the irrational depths in her paper “Shanghai and the Unconscious: China’s Hidden Dreams, Fears and Desires” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork
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