​2016 International Conference on
Sounds, Images, and Texts on China's Periphery

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Keynote Speech 1 (19 Sept 2016 | 14:15)​

Helen REES (Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music)

Topic: Centering the Periphery: Southwest China as Multiple Musical Crossroads

Introduction by Chuen-Fung Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University)

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Keynote Speech 2 (20 Sept 2016 | 09:00)

Robert BARNETT (Columbia University)

Topic: Invisibility and Presence: Chinese Motifs in Tibetan Film

Introduction by Jessica Yeung (Hong Kong Baptist University)

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Keynote Speech 3 (20 Sept 2016 | 14:00)

Frederick LAU (University of Hawai’i)

Topic: Dangerous Margins: Creative Impulses in Hong Kong’s popular Music

Introduction by Helen Yang (Hong Kong Baptist University)

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Panel 1: Text and Performance (19 Sept 2016 | 09:30)

 

Chair: Tasaw Hsin-chun LU (Academia Sinica)

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Abdusemi ABDURAHMAN (Tokyo University of the Arts; Xinjiang Arts Institute)

Topic: 通過錄音資料來復活過去的音樂：以維吾爾古典音樂木卡姆的音聲復原為例

(Sound Restoration from the Old Recordings of Uyghur Classical Muqam)

 

 

 

Altan (Inner Mongolia University of Technology)

Topic: 論文學典籍翻譯中原文本的動態性

(The Dynamics of the Source Text in Translation of Classical Texts)

 

 

 

Turxunjan SIRAJDIN (Xinjiang Arts Institute)

Topic: 吐魯番納孜爾庫姆歌舞的社會功能

(The Social Roles of Nazirkom Singing and Dancing from Turpan)

 

 

 

Panel 2: Socialism (19 Sept 2016 | 11:15)

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Chair:  Wai Ping YAU (Hong Kong Baptist University)

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Laikwan PANG (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Topic: Modernizing Xinjiang Culture: Below the Kezile Mountain as “Xinjiang’s” First Novel

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Ming-wei PENG (National Chiao Tung University)

Topic: 我們要如何向台灣原住民族道歉？：一位外省漢人作家關曉榮介入原住民運動之路

(How to Make an Apology to Taiwanese Aboriginal People? A Non-Taiwanese Han Writer Guan Xiaorun’s engagement in Taiwanese Aboriginal Movement since 1980s)

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Niccolo PIANCIOLA (Lingnan University)

Topic: Making Sense of the Cultural Revolution in Xinjiang: Cross-Border Narratives

 

 

 

Panel 3: Art and Music (19 Sept 2016 | 15:45)

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Chair: Andre ELIAS (Hong Kong Baptist University)

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Hiroshi AOYAGI (Kokushikan University)

Topic: On the Ethnographic Implications of Chinese Musical Heritage in Contemporary Okinawa: Drawing Some Inferences from Rujigaku Performances

 

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Siu Woo CHEUNG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Topic: Batik Art as a Contending Practice for Identity: Politics of Ethnic Classification in Southeast Guizhou

 

 

Charlotte D’EVELYN (Loyola Marymount University)

Topic: Borderland Stories: Mongolian Fiddles and Fiddlers in Horchin, Inner Mongolia ca. 1900-2015

 

 

Loretta KIM (The University of Hong Kong)

Topic: Representing Names in Non-Han Genealogies: Dagur Clan Records as Onomastic Tapestries

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Panel 4: Theorizing the Periphery (20 Sept 2016 | 10:30)

 

Chair: Howard Yuen Fung CHOY (Hong Kong Baptist University)

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Victor FAN (King’s College)

Topic: Subjectival Catharsis: Time and De-Subjectivization in Pema Tseden’s Tharlo

 

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Kim Ho IP (Freie Universität Berlin)

Topic: Center, Periphery and Ver-stehen: Regenerative Power Brought by the Peripheral

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Kwai-Cheung LO (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Topic: Nature’s Call: Sound in the PRC’s Ethnic Minority Ecocinema

 

 

Reinhard STRAUB (National Chung-Hsing University)

Topic: English Language Music as Sinophone Articulation

 

 

 

Panel 5: Ethnography (20 Sept 2016 | 15:30)

 

Chair: Kwai-cheung LO (Hong Kong Baptist University)

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Rena EKREM (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Topic: Space of Their Own: “Qatar Chay” Activity of Uyghur Women in Urumqi, Xinjiang

 

 

Samuel HORLOR (Durham University)

Topic: Mainstream on the Margins: Synergy Between Periphery and Centre in Wuhan’s Street Music

 

 

Andrew Xiaoshi WEI (Indiana University)

Topic: Ghulja Music in Olturush: The Archives of Bextiyar Hebibulla

 

 

Matthew A. WERSTLER (Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, Guangxi)

Topic: From Village to the City: Folk Song and Changing Landscapes in Baise City

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