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張愛玲研究新方向講座系列之二十三 New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #23
Co-hosted by School of Chinese and Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Co-sponsored by Louis Cha Fund for Chinese studies & East/West studies in the Faculty
& Center for the Study of Globalization and Culture (CSGC) 

當摩登女郎遇上張愛玲

When the Modern Girl Meets Eileen Chang

分享嘉賓 Speaker:

Prof. SANG Tze-lan 桑梓蘭 教授

(Dept. of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Michigan State University)

主持人 Moderator:

Prof. LIN Pei-yin 林姵吟 教授

(School of Chinese, HKU)

日期時間 Date & Time: May 28, 2025 (Wed) 16:30-18:00pm (HKT)

語言 Language: 普通話/國語 Mandarin

地點 Venue: CPD-1.24, Central Podium Level 1, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

授課模式 Delivery Mode: Face-to-face & Online

報名 Registration:

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摘要 Abstract:

摩登女郎在二十世紀上半葉的中國文學與視覺文化中無處不在。無論是通俗小說或革命文學，電影雜誌或嚴肅報刊，廣告圖像或左翼電影，摩登女郎作為一種標誌性形象，廣泛出現在1920年代末至1940年代的各類表現形式中。一般而言，她被描繪為時髦、誘人且性自主的女性，既令人羨慕與模仿，也引來指責與批評。她象徵著現代性的矛盾——既充滿魅力，亦帶來威脅。她經常是現代異性戀規範敘事中的關鍵角色，這些敘事在民國時期的都市公共話語中日益佔據主導地位，促進了異性戀愛自由，與傳統儒家禮教的約束大相徑庭。與此同時，她被認爲的放蕩與物質主義也引起了媒體強烈批評。

當摩登女郎遇上張愛玲，會發生什麼變化？張愛玲如何看待飽受爭議的摩登女郎？她延續了什麼樣的書寫慣習，又介入了何種公共話語？自認爲“拜金主義者”的張愛玲，遇上頗有“挖金姑娘”嫌疑的摩登女子，有著什麼樣的洞見與不見？本次演講將帶您一探究竟。

The Modern Girl had a ubiquitous presence in early-twentieth-century Chinese literature and visual culture. From popular fiction to revolutionary literature, from movie fanzines to more serious varieties of newspapers and magazines, from advertising images to leftist cinema, the Modern Girl appeared as an iconic figure in a wide range of representations from the late 1920s through the 1940s. Generally speaking, she was depicted as glamorous, alluring, and sexually liberated. She was envied and emulated as much as chastised. She symbolized the contradictions of modernity—its inordinate attraction as well as its threat. Frequently, she was a key character in the modern heteronormative narratives that gained increasing dominance in urban public discourse in Republican China, narratives that promoted the liberalization of cross-sex courtship as a progressive, humane practice that radically departed from restrictive Confucian ritual. At the same time, her reputed promiscuity and materialism provoked criticisms in the media.

What happens when the Modern Girl meets Eileen Chang? How does Chang see the Modern Girl? What literary molds does Chang borrow and what public interventions does she make? What insights can we gain into the Modern Girl by deploying Eileen Chang as a method?

講者簡介 About the Speaker:

桑梓蘭    美國加州大學柏克萊校區比較文學博士，曾任奧勒岡大學東亞語文系系主任，現任密西根州立大學語言學與語言文化系教授。學術著作有專書 The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (芝加哥大學出版社)（台大出版中心中譯本名《浮現中的女同性戀：現代中國的女同情欲》) 以及學術論文多篇。編有 Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries (Routledge)。目前研究重點包括民國時期摩登女郎話語、當代台灣紀錄片、華語女性電影。著有中文現代詩集《時光膠囊》（秀威出版社）。

Prof. SANG Tze-lan received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She was Department Head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Oregon before joining the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University. Author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same Sex Desire in Modern China (University of Chicago Press), she has also published numerous articles and book chapters and the coedited volume Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries (Routledge). Her current research focuses on the Modern Girl in Republican China, contemporary Taiwanese documentaries, and Sinophone women’s cinema. In 2021, she published a collection of her poetry under the title Time Capsules (Showwe Press).  

Notice:

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