Chinese Literature and Tolerance

SOAS, London, 6-8 August 2003

Conference Venue
The conference will take place in Room B102 of the Brunei Gallery building, directly opposite the SOAS Main Building. The room is located on the first floor (which is the floor above the ground floor!).

Length of Presentations
The time allotted to each speaker for presentation and discussion is 30 minutes. Speakers are advised to limit their presentation to 20 minutes, to allow ample time for discussion.

This conference is supported by grants from The British Academy and from the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies

Programme
6th August 2003
11:00 - 12:30	Registration (Room B102, Brunei Gallery, SOAS)
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:.30	Opening and Welcome
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote Address	Michelle Yeh 'There are no camels in the Koran': Tolerance and Literary Creativity
15:30 - 15.45	Tea and Coffee
15.45 - 16.45 Panel 1	Wong Yoon Wah A Study of Nationalist Government’s Literary Censorship Ben Xu The Dubious Toleration of Literary Sympathy
7th August 2003
10:00 - 10:30 Panel 2	Ulrike Middendorf Beyond Due Measure – The Abhorrence for ‘Excessive Wording’
10:30 - 10:45	Tea and Coffee
10:45 - 11:45 Panel 3	Maghiel van Crevel Lower Body Poetry Xiaobin Yang A Critique of Pure Intolerance: Recent Chinese Poetry
11:45 - 12:00	Tea and Coffee
12:00 - 13:00 Panel 4	Eva Shan Chou Living Without A Queue: How Lu Xun Faced Hostility Xia Jing Tolerance in Zhou Zuoren’s Literary Theory and Criticism
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Panel 5	Kwok-kan Tam Tolerance/Intolerance and Dilemma of Self in Edward Yang’s Film A Confucian Confusion Pei-Yin Lin Historical Representation and National Myth in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness and Lin Yaode’s 1947 Formosan Lilies
15:30 - 15:45	Tea and Coffee
15:45 - 16:45 Panel 6	Terry Siu-han Yip The Dilemma of Choice: The Notion of Self and the Theme of (In)Tolerance in Modern Chinese Literature Yingjin Zhang Towards Critical Flanerie in Chinese Literature: Spatial Practices, New Visuality and Moral Tolerance in Shanghai Modernists
8th August 2003
9:30 - 10:30 Panel 7	Xinda Lian Intolerance of the Song Literati towards ‘Vulgarity’ Charles Kwong Intolerance and Tragedy in Chinese Literature: the Case of Six Records of a Floating Life
10:30 - 10:45	Tea and Coffee
10:45 - 11:45 Panel 8	Wen-Shan Shieh Violence of Representation: The Writings of Chen Yingzhen and Shi Mingzheng Rujie Wang Fiction Against Intolerance: The Voices of the Wounded
11:45 - 12:00	Tea and Coffee
12:00 - 13:00 Panel 9	Carsten Storm Aspects of Tolerance in Qing Dynasty Crime Fiction Nanxiu Qian Tolerance and Intolerance across Gender and Cultural Boundaries: Xue Shaohui’s Rewriting of Exemplary Foreign Women Stories
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Panel 10	Ken Sekine The Limit of Tolerance: A Study of the First Chinese Novel about the Nanking Massacre Martin Winter Tolerance in Hong Ying’s 1999 (2011)-trilogy and in K. Author’s Tolerance. State Tolerance
17:00 -	Closing reception (Brunei Gallery Café)