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

The conference builds on the existing scholarship on issues of marginality and cultural boundaries in ethnographic and literary disciplines. Our primary purpose is to examine Chinese sounds, images, and texts in their interaction with the people and traditions on China’s geographical, racial/ethnic, and ideological peripheries. We hope to forge new grounds for the study of Chinese literature, visual and performing arts as encountering its various forms of Otherness. Topics and themes include the sounds, texts, and images of minority nationalities, subaltern soundscapes, traveling musical, textual, and visual practices, periphery as abject, performing and writing against nation, transnational imaginaries (such as the Silk Road), as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other peripheral and diasporic locales. Panel sessions and papers will seek to theorize the periphery as a primary site for articulating differences and the emergence of musical, visual, and textual practices, in both historical and modern times.

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Conference Committee:

Kwai-cheung LO (Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, HKBU)

Chuen-fung WONG (Department of Music, HKBU)

Jessica YEUNG (Translation Programme, Department of English Language and Literature, HKBU)

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Please contact Chuen-Fung Wong (wongcf@hkbu.edu.hk; +852 3411 7333) for questions and inquiries.