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Paneled Art in East Asian Handscrolls and Comics

Exhibit: East Asian Handscrolls and Comics at UCSB Library

Posted on October 6, 2022 | by Thomas Mazanec

Visual Pleasure through Private Gaze: Paneled Art in East Asian Handscrolls and Comics

Fri, 10/07/2022 – 8:00am to Tue, 06/20/2023 – 5:00pm

Exhibition Location: Art & Architecture Collection

UCSB Library is pleased to present this exhibition of handscrolls and comics from its Art & Architecture Collection. Both forms of art are consumed and enjoyed by individual users, panel by panel, and both are used in teaching and research at UCSB.

Painted horizontally on narrow sheets of paper or silk, handscroll paintings are a unique type of East Asian painting. Handscrolls are typically 0.7-1.2 feet in width, but their length varies from just a few feet to dozens of feet. Viewed frame by frame, handscroll paintings present art that progresses temporally and spatially. Handscrolls are considered the prototype of modern comics, a medium which similarly expresses ideas with images. The Japanese handscroll Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga 鳥獣人物戯画 (literally Animal-person Caricatures), for example, is considered the oldest Japanese comic, or manga.

Exhibition curated by librarians Chizu Morihara and Yao Chen.

To learn more about the collections, please see the UCSB Library’s announcement.

Banner for "Study Abroad Scholarship 'Taiwan Huayu Best' Information Session"

Announcing New Exchange with National Taiwan Normal University

Posted on September 28, 2022 | by Thomas Mazanec

UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts has signed an Agreement with National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei, Taiwan.

Each year, they will fund a total of 12 UCSB undergraduate and/or graduate students to study Chinese language at NTNU. Ten of these fellowships are short-term (3 months); 2 of them are longterm (5 months). It is open to UCSB student applicants who are U.S. citizens. It provides free tuition and a monthly stipend of NT$25,000 (U.S.$786), which is enough to cover modest accommodations and meals in Taipei. Students of both beginning to advanced Chinese language levels are welcome to apply.

Right now, they are recruiting for the 2 longterm fellowships of 5 month study — besides language, students may also choose content classes in Chinese history, philosophy, Taiwan Studies, literature, media, etc. The deadline of application for the long term study is:

October 31, 2022.

(Deadline for short term fellowships will be announced in early 2023.)

For a valuable information session, Please see the flyer with the Zoom link for Oct. 6 at 5:30 pm Pacific Time. You will meet with instructors at NTNU in Taiwan, speaking English.

For further questions, please consult with Bella Chen, Chinese language lecturer in our East Asian Studies Dept:

bellachen@eastasian.ucsb.edu

There is a possibility of receiving UCSB course credit for this study abroad, but you must apply for it before you leave for Taiwan.

Please see the flyer for more information

Translatability/Transmediality: Chinese Poetry in/and the World

Posted on September 22, 2022 | by Thomas Mazanec

Please join us for the upcoming symposium, Translatability/Transmediality: Chinese Poetry in/and the World, organized by Yunte Huang and Hangping Xu.

Schedule

Session 1
October 7, 11 am-1 pm ET / 11 pm-1 am GMT+8

Yunte Huang and Hangping Xu:
Welcome and opening remarks

Haun Saussy: Ways of Reading Worlds in Chinese Poetry

Shengqing Wu: Lyrical Looking and World-Visions in Late Qing Poetry on Overseas Journeys

Xiaorong Li: Globalizing Chinese Sensual-Sentimental Lyricism: Zhou Shoujuan’s Xiangyan Conghua

Chris Song: Failures of Diplomatic Intents in Poetry Translation: On Thomas Francis Wade’s Chinese Translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”

Lucas Klein: Assimilation or Detention: Poetic Form and the Retranslation of the Angel Island Poems

Session 2
October 8, 11 am-1 pm ET / 11 pm-1 am GMT+8

Michelle Yeh: The Russian Imaginary and Modern Chinese Poetry in Taiwan

Nick Admussen: The Poetry Turn: Writing Chinese Cultural Studies Between Empires

Cosima Bruno: Intersections, Interactions, Integrations: Chronological Entanglement of a Chinese Poem

Maghiel Crevel: China’s Battler Poetry and the Hypertranslatability of Zheng
Xiaoqiong

Hangping Xu: Crossing the World to Sleep with You: Yu Xiuhua’s Poetry as Performance and its Cross-cultural Translatability

Jacob Edmond: Literature as Translation: Bei Dao beyond World Poetry

Co-hosted by:
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
The Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Sponsored by:
The Carsey-Wolf Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

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New Database of Study Abroad Classes

Posted on August 30, 2022 | by Thomas Mazanec

We are pleased to announce the creation of a new database of classes taken abroad for credit in the East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies major and minor. We hope that this tool will encourage students to take classes in Japan, Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan through UC’s extensive Education Abroad Program, and experience the fascinating complexities of life in East Asia firsthand. Programs are held at world-renowned institutions such as Tohoku University, Keio University, Waseda University, Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, National Taiwan University, University of Hong Kong, and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

For more information, see the Study Abroad for East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Majors website.