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| 10 April 2013 | |
Seminar: Ms Clara Iwasaki Date: 10 April 2013 |
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In this paper, I will examine Xiao Hong’s changing attitudes towards displacement and statelessness throughout her writing career. Xiao Hong left Harbin when it became part of Manchukuo. While she was displaced, she was able to “return” to China, a place she had never been before. During as a Northeast writer, living and publishing in Shanghai, she also wrote sympathetically about the Russian and Korean peoples living in Harbin and their plight as stateless peoples. In examining the itinerary of Xiao Hong and her writings, it is possible to see how her travels put her writing in dialogue with the greater internationalist and leftist movements. In order to do so, I will examine Xiao Hong’s non-fiction collection, Market Street, as well as some of her lesser-known short stories, “Sophia’s Sorrow” and “Yali” which focus on Harbin, as well as her last novel Ma Bole and “Remembering Mr. and Mrs. Kaji Wataru,” to examine how her attitudes towards displacement, statelessness and ethnicity change during wartime. Clara Iwasaki is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She is an American Fulbright Student in Hong Kong for the year 2012-2013. All are welcome. No registration is required. For enquiries, please contact Dr John Wong at jdwong@hku.hk. |
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