Date: 25 November 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00nn – 1:30pm
Venue: G24, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK
Speakers: Prof. Minhua Ling (Centre for China Studies) and Prof. Ka-ming Wu (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies)
Host: Ms. Guo Yanping (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies)
Language: Mandarin
Registration: http://goo.gl/forms/lGJ5t8EwMq
Ka-ming WU is Assistant Professor of Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her forthcoming book Reinventing Chinese Tradition: Cultural Politics of Late Socialism(University of Illinois Press) examines how folk cultural traditions become battlegrounds where conflicts among the state, market forces, and intellectuals in search of an authentic China play out in contemporary Yan’an, China. She has another forthcoming book The Life of Waste: Economy, Community and Space in a Beijing Scavengers’ site (Chinese University Press), which investigates a scavenger community and the cultural economy of waste in outskirt Beijing. Wu’s research interests include cultural modernity, public culture, urbanization, rural-urban divide and state-society relationship in contemporary China. She is also interested in post-colonial politics, civil society, identity and social change in Hong Kong.
Minhua LING is Assistant Professor of Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She joined CUHK in 2013 after receiving her doctoral degree in anthropology from Yale University. She has published in The China Journal and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Coming of Age on China’s Urban Edge, an ethnography of the adolescent experiences of second-generation migrant youth bereft of full citizenship rights and positioned ambiguously in China’s entrenched urban-rural divide. Ling’s research interests include migration and urbanization, adolescence and youth culture, education and social mobility, identity and social change, and state-society relations. She is also interested in public culture, gender and family relations, China and East Asian studies.
Light refreshment will be provided.
Registration is required by 20 November 2015.
First-come, first-served.
Enquiry : 3943 1255 / cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk