Print Culture and Popular Culture Research Group
Introduction
The research group “Print Culture and Popular Culture” aims at stimulating discussion and research on the popular and material dimensions of culture, broadly perceived, in the Chinese-speaking world, from late imperial times to the contemporary era.
Inspired by both theoretical discussions and a growing international research output over the past two decades, interest in the intellectual trajectory of the Sinophone world has gradually shifted to include print culture, cinema, modern and traditional popular forms, visual and audio culture, pulp fiction, and everyday culture. This conceptual opening has led to an explosion of source materials considered legitimate and relevant for research, as well as a profusion of methodologies and approaches of inquiry. With its deliberately broad theme, the research group “Print Culture and Popular Culture” takes into account these developments; stressing inclusiveness, it defines itself as cross-disciplinary, cross-regional, and crossing traditional periodizations. Cutting across boundaries in space, time, and discipline, the group welcomes scholars and students from the fields of history, literature, theatre, cinema studies, art history, and other related disciplines, working on the Chinese speaking areas from the far Northeast (one-time Manchuria) to South-East Asia, from Beijing and Shanghai to Hong Kong and Taipei; we embrace work covering late imperial, modern and contemporary times, thus consciously trying to overcome the bifurcation between the modern and pre-modern eras.
Research Areas
The research group “Print Culture and Popular Culture” focuses on a number of core themes, including:
- Printing, press, and public sphere
- Cinema, visual and audio culture
- Education and dissemination of culture
- Cultural production and cultural consumption
- Travel and voyages of cultural products and ideas
What is the significance of printing and the press for the cultural trajectory of the Sinophone world? How do elite culture and popular cultural forms intersect in the audio-visual fields, and what are the implications of such a perspective for our understanding of the concept of culture itself? How can textbooks, assigned reading, and teaching patterns affect the formation and transmission of cultural values? What is the role of producers – writers, editors, directors, printers, booksellers, distribution companies – on the one hand, and audiences – readers, viewers, buyers, netizens – on the other, in the development of cultural expressions at different times in different places? How does the increasing physical mobility of both creative artists and their audiences, and their sometimes long sojourns in alien places, affect the nature of the cultural products themselves?
The research group “Print Culture and Popular Culture” tries to stimulate research on these and other questions that may arise in the course of our discussions. While we do not want to come up with definite conclusions on any of the above topics, we hope to raise awareness of these and other problems, and thus to encourage thinking in broader categories and more sophisticated research efforts.
People
CORE MEMBERS:
| Name/姓名 | Research Area/研究课题 | |
|---|---|---|
| A/P XU Lanjun 徐兰君副教授 |
Modern Chinese Literature / Film; Chinese Youth and Children; Cultural Transnationalism and Chinese Cold War Cultures in Southeast Asia | |
| Prof YUNG Sai-Shing 容世诚教授 |
Premodern and Modern Chinese Print Culture; Film; Audio Culture; Drama | |
| Dr TU Hang 涂航助理教授 |
Modern Chinese Literature, Culture, and Media; Affect Theory |
MEMBERS:
| Name/姓名 | Research Area/研究课题 | |
|---|---|---|
| Prof ONG Chang Woei 王昌伟教授 |
Intellectual History; Chinese Local History; Women in Chinese History | |
| A/P KOH Khee Heong 许齐雄副教授 |
Ming-Qing Intellectual History; State-Society Relations in Late Imperial China | |
| A/P LAM Lap 林立副教授 |
Popular Culture Theory and Popular Culture in Late Imperial China | |
| A/P WONG Sin Kiong 黄贤强副教授 |
Nanyang Chinese in Modern Chinese History; Political Culture in Modern China | |
| Dr CHAN Cheow Thia 曾昭程助理教授 |
Singapore and Malaysian Chinese Literature; Modern Chinese Literature | |
| Dr CHAN Ying-kit 陈英杰助理教授 |
Women in Qing China; Southeast Asian Studies; Animal Studies; History of Science in late Qing and early Republican China | |
| Dr LYE Soo Choon 赖素春博士 |
Chinese Opera in Singapore; Chinese Literature in Singapore |
STUDENT MEMBERS: PH.D. STUDENTS:
| Name | 姓名 |
|---|---|
| Deng Yu | 邓 宇 |
| Ho Hill Tone Bauhinia | 何曉瞳 |
| Hung Wai Yu | 孔惠瑜 |
| Li Jiaxuan | 李佳璇 |
| Liao Yiran | 廖依然 |
| Peng Chengxin | 彭诚鑫 |
| Wang Xinran | 王欣然 |
| Xia Peigen | 夏培根 |
M.A. STUDENTS:
| Name | 姓名 |
|---|---|
| Khor Yi Heng | 許頤蘅 |
| Li Ruolin | 李若琳 |
| Li Wenjun | 李文君 |
Events and Activities
| Date | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08 Nov 2024 | 借銀燈：張愛玲劇作的藝文系譜與影像轉譯 | 趙家琦副教授，國立中興大學中國文學系 A/P Chao Chia-chi, National Chung Hsing University |
| 06 Nov 2024 | 走出数字闺阁：华语网络空间的女性诗词 Out of the Digital Boudoir: Reinventing the Female Voice in the Sinophone Cyberspace (Co-organized with Classical Chinese Literature and Thought Research Group) |
杨治宜教授，法兰克福大学汉学系 Prof Zhiyi Yang, Goethe University Frankfurt |
| 29 Oct 2024 | Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China | Prof Li Jie, Harvard University |
| 06 Mar 2024 | 猫腻和中国网络文学 | Prof Shao Yanjun, Peking University 邵燕君教授，北京大学中文系 |
| 01 Mar 2024 | 萧红、文学划界与东亚现代文学 | 谢琼副教授，美国达特茅斯学院亚洲社会、文化及语言系 A/P Miya Qiong Xie, Dartmouth College |
| 16 Feb 2024 | 从《花木兰》(1998) 到《花木兰》(2020) : 在妥协中的进步 | Prof Zhuoyi Wang, Hamilton College 王卓异教授，美国汉密尔顿学院 |
| 26 Jan 2024 | Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930) | Dr Ma Xiaolu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 19 Jan 2024 | 柳亚子与晚清“女界革命” | 夏晓虹，河南大学讲座教授 Prof Xia Xiaohong, Henan University |
| 19 Oct 2023 | 跨物种虚构：与台湾云豹一起想象灭绝 | Dr Huang Dingru, Tufts University |
| 10 May 2023 | 台北、香港、新加坡 1962、1963、1964——华语电影的电影神话 | 陈炜智先生，前台北电影中心研究出版组组长 |
| 27 Apr 2023 | Cinema in China prior to WWI | Dr Xu Meimei, Nanjing University |
| 16 Mar 2023 | 探访东北文艺：地方感 · 去地域化 · 叙事方法 | A/P Song Weijie, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| 17 Feb 2023 | Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture | Prof Wu Shengqing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 16 Nov 2022 | 海外华人与电影工业：蔡文玄研究 (Migration and Film Industry: Chua Boon Hean in Singapore) | 叶舒瑜博士 (Dr Yap Soo Ei)，国大中文系 |
| 20 Oct 2022 | 歌台与报刊—南洋都市文化传奇 | 苏章恺先生，杨启霖潮州文化研究中心副主席 |
| 15 Oct 2021 | The Stone and the Wireless: Lyrical Media and Bad Models of the Feeling Women | Dr Ma Shaoling, Yale-NUS College |
| 18 Oct 2019 | 華夷之變: 華語語系研究的新視界 | 王德威教授，哈佛大學 |
| 23 Sept 2019 | Chinese Cinema in Singapore: From the Eyes of Local Collectors 华语电影在新加坡：收藏家的视角 (与雲茂潮中华文化研究中心、 东南亚华人与近代中国研究群联办 Jointly Organized with Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture and Southeast Asian Chinese and Modern China Research Group） |
黄汉民 (私人收藏家), 杜汉彬 (艺术家、 电影研究员), 苏章恺 (电影研究员), 林明珠副教授 (电影研究员) Wong Han Min (Private collector), Toh Hun Ping (Video Artist and Film Researcher), Su Zhangkai (Film Researcher), A/P Lim Beng Choo (Film Researcher) |
| 6 Sept 2019 | 华语电影歌舞类型与华语电影里的歌舞 | 陈炜智先生，前台北电影中心研究出版组组长 |
| 23 Apr 2019 | 中元普度與盂蘭盆會：神戶、香港、 新加坡華僑華人救贖儀式的比較 (与中国宗教研究群及东南亚华人 与近代中国研究群联办) |
蔡志祥教授，香港中文大學歷史系教授 |
| 15 Apr 2019 | 白蛇戲曲之續集與變體：清中葉《後雷峰塔》傳奇略論 (与古典文学与思想研究群联办) |
汪詩珮副教授，國立臺灣大學中文系副教授兼國立臺灣大學副學務長 |
| 2 Apr 2019 | 冷戰時期的抒情傳統和地域政治——香港調景嶺 「嶺梅詩社」及其相關問題探討 (与古典文学与思想研究群联办) |
黃美娥教授，台灣大學台灣文學研究所教授兼所長 |
| 18 Jan 2019 | Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy | Assistant Professor Emily Wilcox, University of Michigan |
| 6 Dec 2018 | 从电懋公司《星洲艳迹》看星港电影文化环的生成 Romance in Singapore: A Cinematic Cultural Ring between Hong Kong and Singapore |
麦欣恩博士，香港中文大学中国语言及文学系助理教授 |
| 20 Aug 2018 | （后）遗民，（新）游民，侠义心理地理 (Post)Loyalists, (New)Wanderers, Chivalric Psychogeography |
宋伟杰副教授，罗格斯大学 A/P Weijie Song, Rutgers University |
| 9 Mar 2018 | 中国戏曲与移民社会：以澳洲为个案 | 杨永安副教授，香港大学中文学院名誉副教授 |
| 3 Mar 2017 | 聆听史料：粤曲的“历史人类学” Listening to Historical Sources: A "Historical Anthropology" of the Cantonese Operatic Songs (与东南亚华人与近代中国研究群联办 Jointly organised with Southeast Asian Chinese & Modern China Research Group) |
程美宝教授，香港城市大学中文及历史系 Professor Cheng Meibao, Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong |
| 14 Oct 2016 | (1) 间谍生涯：双面人的内外世界 To Avoid Detection: the Double Life of A Spy (2) 要命的身体：中国抗战电影女性形象的意义与演变 Bodies that can kill: the female body in post-war Chinese Anti-Japanese War movies |
谭景辉教授，香港理工大学中国文化学系 祖运辉教授，日本关西学院大学国际学部 |
| 30 May 2016 | Literature Across Borders in Cold War China | A/P Xiaojue Wang，Rutgers University 王晓珏副教授，美国罗格斯大学亚洲语言文化系 |
| 18 Mar 2016 | 打造马来亚——论马来亚制片组的冷战影像 | 许维贤博士，南洋理工大学中文系 |
| 16 Oct 2015 | Voice as Ephemera: Reconstructing a Culture of Listening in 1970s China (Jointly organized with Island Society) |
Prof Nicole Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison 黄心村教授，美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊校区东亚语言及文学系 |
| 28 Sept 2015 | Between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia: Youlian’s Cultural Transnationalism in the Cold War |
A/P Shuang Shen, The Pennsylvania State University 沈双副教授，美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学 |
| 3 Sept 2015 | 座谈会：现代中国印刷文化及当代 网络文学方面的研究 |
贺麦晓教授（Professor Michel Hockx） 伦敦大学亚非学院中国研究院院长 |
| 6 Aug 2015 | (1)新加坡国立大学所藏“外江戏” 剧本研究计划：内容与方向 The Study of Guangdong Han Opera Scripts: Content and Research Interest (2)《四郎探母》的本事来源及其故事变迁 The Origin and Narratives of the Story “Yang Silang Visits His Mother” （与东南亚华人研究群联办 jointly organized with Southeast Asian Chinese Research Group） |
康保成教授、陈志勇教授、 陈燕芳博士（广州中山大学中文系） Professor Kang Baocheng, Professor Chen Zhiyong, Dr. Chen Yanfang (Sun Yat-sen University, China, Department of Chinese Studies) |
| 6 May 2015 | 香港电影资料馆和华语电影研究 | 王丽明女士， 香港电影资料馆节目策划主任 |