CFA: Panel on Feminism in Chinese translation, ICAS

Christine Vial Kayser Discussion
For the International Congress of Asian Studies to be held in Leiden in July 2019 (11th-19th) we are looking for contributors to a panel addressing the translation and resistance to Western concepts of Feminism in China. The panel will last two hours (date to be decided within the Congress time frame by the Congress organizers). The contributions will be published online possibly in Transcultural Perspectives (E-Journal on Visual and Art History: http://www.kunsttexte.de/index.php?id=25&L=1).

Abstract:

The threat of the beautiful woman: (The influence — or lack of — European feminism in Chinese representations of the feminine / Feminism). The emergence of a generation of educated and independent women in China, is shaking up traditional patterns. The panel will examine the role of traditional representations of the feminine in China vis à vis European feminism — its conceptual frame and artistic representations. It purports to examine how traditional views of the feminine beauty as associated to power and witchcraft or auspicious events (a Western and Asian cultural trait), have given way in the west to a singular view of beauty as submissive to the male gaze and how these ambiguities are in fact still at play in Asia.

 

Organiser: Dr. Christine Vial Kayser, art historian, Associate researcher in Asian Art history, Creops-Paris-Sorbonne

Please send proposals to Christine.vialkayser@gmail.com

 

Contact Info: 

Dr. Christine Vial Kayser (Creops-Paris-Sorbonne)