[Reader-list] 9th Giri Deshingkar Memorial Lecture by Shu-mei Shih on 'From World History to World Literature: China, the South, and the Global 60s', CSDS. Monday, Dec 22

[The Sarai Programme]

Dear all,

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Institute of Chinese
Studies invite you to the 9th Giri Deshingkar Memorial Lecture by *Shu-mei
Shih* on *"From World History to World Literature: China, the South, and
the Global 60s."*

The Lecture will be held on Monday, 22 December 2014, 5 pm, at the Seminar
Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054 (Phone: 011 23942199).

Join us for tea at 4.30 pm before the Lecture.

Please *RSVP* by sending an email to Ms. Jayasree Jayanthan (jaya at csds.in).

*Giri Deshingkar Memorial Lectures* are instituted in the memory of
Professor Giri Deshingkar, former Director of the CSDS and founder member
of the Institute of Chinese Studies. Earlier speakers in the series include
Professors Prasenjit Duara, Wang Gungwu, Tan Chung, Hamashita Takeshi,
Ashwani Saith, Richard Appelbaum, Elizabeth Perry and Wang Hui.

This lecture will explore the connection between world literature and world
history. Taking the world historical event of the global 60s as an example,
it will reconsider the place of China in that event from the perspectives
of literary communities that may be considered the South to the Chinese
North, such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam, and through this
process, propose a new conception of world literature.

*Shu-mei Shih* is a professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages
and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at UCLA, and the Hong-yin and
Suet-fong Chan Professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. Her
book, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China,
1917-1937 (2001), is the authoritative study of Chinese literary modernism
to date, and her Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the
Pacific (2007), inaugurated a new field of study called Sinophone Studies.
She is currently working on two book projects respectively entitled Empires
of the Sinophone and From World History to World Literature.

Regards,

Praveen Rai

Academic Secretary

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai