The first #ChinaComx workshop last week was a great success! Engaged discussions, provocative questions, fun talks, and overall a greatly inspiring two-and-half days of engaging with lianhuanhua and other Chinese comics. Thanks to all participants for taking their time!

Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"

Sarah Dauncey @ Uni Nottingham considers affective visions of disability in the 2nd #BACS2023 keynote “Emotional subjects: Citizenship, identity and the emotional world of disability in China”

Leigh Jenco @ London School of Economics investigates moral responses to inequality in her paper “Validity and the Cult of Qing (Passion) in Late Ming Poetic Criticism” #BACS2023

Kar Yue Chan @ Hong Kong Metropolitan Uni explores the poetics of grief in her paper “Epitomizing the Poignancy in Poetry and Cantonese Opera: “The Heartbreaking Poetry” of Zhu Shuzhen” #BACS2023

Moxuan Luo @ Uni Hong Kong kicks off day 2 of #BACS2023 with his paper “The Evolution and Political Imagination of "Wu Hu Jiang"(五虎將) in Ming and Qing Fictions”

Dylan K. Wang @ SOAS gets historical with his paper “Depicting Chinese Murders: Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee Mysteries as Illustrated by Himself” #BACS2023

Lindsey McLean-Melchor @ Uni Grenada considers the intersection of the personal and the political in her paper “Woman-Author, Woman-Subject: (Auto)biographical trends in non-fictional literature (2002-2019) by Chinese-British author Xue Xinran 薛欣然 (1958-)” #BACS2023

Yaqi Zhang @ Uni Leeds foregrounds the audience in her paper “A Case Study of the Reception of the Translation of Legends of the Condor Heroes Written by Jin Yong” #BACS2023

Mary Mazzilli @ Uni_of_Essex considers strategic self-fashioning in “Exophony, Translation, and Transnationalism in Sinophone contemporary writers” #BACS2023

Didn’t manage to get any pics—too much multitasking for my poor older millennial brain—but here are the abstracts for this fantastic panel #BACS2023

Yang Shaoyu @ uniofwarwick delves into micro-narratives of wartime life in her paper “Memory Lost and Revived: Representations of the Nanjing Massacre in the Novels of Chinese American Writers and their Self-Translation” #BACS2023

Karita Kan @ HongKongPolyU questions ‘the end of rural China’ in the first keynote of #BACS2023 “Seeds of change: Fifteen years of China’s rural transformation”

Yantao Sun (University of Leeds) investigates love and heroism in her paper “Reinventing ‘heroic sons and daughters’: a rising hybrid genre of web romantic fiction and the popularism imagination of self-community relationship in contemporary China” #BACS2023

Anna Antong Chen (University of Sydney) explores the mechanism of irony in her paper “The trauma narrative in Wang Xiaobo’s fiction: irony, memory and identity” #BACS2023

Will Gatherer (University of Queensland) gets meta with his paper “Anxiety in the anthropocene: Post-postmodernism and eco-consciousness within the contemporary novels of Ma Yuan (马原)” #BACS2023

I’ll also be chairing panel B5: New Media, New Art for #BACS2023, which will be held in the SE wing of Bush House, floor 2, room 10, Thursday 7 Sept 14:00 – 15:30.

For anyone who will be attending the British Association of Chinese Studies conference King's College London (Thur 7– Fri 8 Sept), I will be presenting a paper for panel F8: Making Do: Politics, Tradition, and Identity in Postsocialist Chinese Visual Cultures. #BACS2023 (thread)