Nick Stember 沈若昆

Beyond Captain America and Akira: Heroes and Villains in Chinese Comics and Caricature with Damian Mandzunowski & Lena Henningsen, Heidelberg University nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/dam…

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!

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/2024/06/2… @WritingChinese

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/translation-co…

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? u.osu.edu/mclc/2024/06/1…

"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/matthewson-geo…

"...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."

"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/note…

The relief prints of the woodblock on the cover are a nice touch — looks like early 50s marriage law?

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" #more-48916" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">u.osu.edu/mclc/2024/05/0…

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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

Lan Xiao @UniofOxford considers shifting depictions of Shanghai in her paper “Behind the Aesthetics of the ‘Magic City’” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork

Shi Hantao presents the second #CCVA2023 keynote “Shanghai Spring: Photographic perspectives during the 2022 Covid lockdown” @CCVAnetwork

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

Anqi Li @HKUniversity discusses urban renewal and gentrification in her paper “The Rise and Fall of Shanghai’s West Bund” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork

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

Ellen Larsen @UChicago discusses the move away from ideology and consumerism in her paper “Art for Sale: Early Video Art in Shanghai” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork

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

Karolina Pawlik @ XianJiaoTongUni plumbs the irrational depths in her paper “Shanghai and the Unconscious: China’s Hidden Dreams, Fears and Desires” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork