Languages and Literature, University of Warwick
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Her project explores the exotic and transcultural representations of 1930s Shanghai as reflected in modern Chinese and French literature, using Segalen’s notion of exoticism – a sensation of surprise or difference that arises from encountering something outside of our current experience, whether in space or time – as a theoretical framework (Victor Segalen, 1978). She considers modern Shanghai as a ‘transcultural site’ (Peng Hsiao-yen, 2010).
'An Aesthetic Portrayal of Republican-era Shanghai: The Exciting and Discordant Beauty of the Metropolis in Zhang Ruogu's Urban Symphony', Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 10.3 (2023), 48-61 <https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i3.920>
'An Aesthetic Portrayal of Republican Shanghai: The 'Exciting' and 'Discordant' Beauty of the Metropolis in Zhang Ruogu's Urban Symphony', 20-minute presentation for the University of Exeter's Global China Research Centre Graduate and ECR Seminar Series in Chinese Studies (8 March 2023)
'Shanghai as 'Paris of the East': Exotic and Uncanny Representations of Republican Shanghai', 20-minute presentation for the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) 25th Biennial Conference 2024 at Tallinn University, Estonia (28 August 2024)
International Summer Seminar 'From Late Imperial to Republican China Continuities and Ruptures' at Saint-Pierre d’Oléron in France, junior commentator (8-14 September 2024)
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