港大中文學院

School of Chinese Workshop

Workshop on Personal and Family Narratives in Late Imperial China:

New Sources and Methods

Date: June 23-24, 2023

Venue: CPD 1.24, Centennial Campus, HKU

This workshop brings together scholars based in North America and Hong Kong to explore a variety of personal and family narratives authored by women and men in late imperial China. Integrating approaches employed by scholars of literature and history, this workshop focuses on the gendered, emotive, and ritual aspects of the self and the family. In so doing, it complicates received wisdom about the Confucian family, while demonstrating the richness of personal narratives of the late imperial period. Tapping personal sources in the forms of poetry, prose, diaries, memoirs, annalistic autobiographies, and visual and material cultures, the papers examine selected topics that include both macro thematic discussions and micro case studies. This workshop highlights in particular methodological developments building on and driving the discovery in recent decades of a plenitude of personal and family narratives from late imperial China.

Speakers:

FONG, Grace (McGill University)

HO, Clara (Hong Kong Baptist University) HUANG, Martin (University of California, Irvine) JIN, Huan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) LI, Guotong (California State University Long Beach) LI, Xiaorong (University of California, Santa Barbara) LU, Weijing (University of California, San Diego) WANG, Yuanfei (Lingnan University) WU, Yulian (Michigan State University) YANG, Binbin (The University of Hong Kong)

General Commentator: Robin Yates (McGill University)

Details can be found HERE