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	Events Current Events 20th Anniversary Celebration Exhibitions Brown Bag Series Conferences Lectures & Symposia		Printer Version Featuring our Fellows Date: 2/12/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location: Room 2022 202 S. Thayer St. Ann Arbor Host Department: Institute for the Humanities Haiping Yan, Theatre, Performance Studies and Critical Theory, UCLA “Tropes of ‘Home’: The Gender of Globalizing Markets in Chinese Urban Culture” Detailed Information Haiping Yan is Professor of Theatre, Performance Studies, and Critical Theory at UCLA. She also holds a Zijiang Chair Professorship in the Arts and Humanistic Studies at East China Normal University. This year she is in residence as the distinguished Norman Freehling Visiting Professor in the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Her specialties include twentieth-century Asian (primarily Chinese), European, and sub-Saharan African dramas, transnational performance studies, and critical theory. She is currently working on two books on twentieth-century performance of transnationalism and intellectual praxis, both are contracted with the University of Michigan Press. Her accolades include China’s 1980-1981 First Prize for Excellence in Drama (the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in the U.S.) for her ten-act historical play titled Li Shimin, Prince of Qin, and CNN’s 1999 selection as one of the “six most influential Chinese cultural figures” for her scholarly and creative works both in English and Chinese. Working through a range of textual, visual and social materials, this talk explores the distinct configurations of the tropes of "home" (jia) in Chinese urban culture and explicates their intricate connotations from a fundamentally transnational perspective. Informed by recent developments in gender studies and shifts in critical theory, this essay attempts to raise some urgent questions not only integral to the on-going scholarly discussions about the tremendous transformations of contemporary Chinese culture and society but also central to the studies of modern Politics of visibility and disappearance, in an era of rapidly unfolding and crisis-ridden globalization. Free and open to the public Contact Information Doretha Coval humin@umich.edu 734-936-3518



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