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Ruins in Chinese Art, Literature, and History |
< Back This one-day symposium focuses on a key concept in Chinese culture and history, that of ruins. Ruins imply historical events, disfiguration, and transformation. The understanding of ruins defines space and time and involves complex political, cultural, and aesthetic values. Ruins are intimately connected with historical experience, with artistic and literary expression, memory, and identity. They become centers of human attention and activity, belonging to and sustaining cultures and ideologies. Date: May 17, 1997, 9 am-5 pm Location: The University of Chicago Papers: “The Elegy on Burying a Crane: A Ruined Inscription and its Restoration,” Robert Harrist, Oberlin College “Ruined Verses: Writings on Walls and Anxieties of Loss in Late Imperial China,” Judith Zeitlin, University of Chicago “Sites, Sight, and Sore Eyes: Anti-Ruins and Radical Visions in Early 20th Century China,” Eugene Wang, University of Chicago “Dangerous Reminders: Ruins and the Openness of History” Jonathan Hay, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University “Is Modern China a Culture in Ruins? A Cinematic View,” Jerome Silbergeld, University of Washington “But Where Are the Ruins in China Art?” Wu Hung, University of Chicago Discussant: Stephen Little, Art Institute of Chicago |
