14 juin 2019 — Representations of the “Far East”
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Journée d’étude
Representations of the “Far East”
14 June 2019
University of Paris 8, Room A2 202
9:15 — Breakfast
Session 1 : Filming the “Far East”
Chair : Susan Ball, University of Paris 8
9:30 — “‘Don’t Sweat The #Repsweats And Let Crazy Rich Asians Be What It Is’ – Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018) and the Yearning to Feel Seen””
Sébastien Lefait, University of Paris 8
10:00 — Representations of « the white man’s burden » in Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy House (2017) and Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children (2013)”
Florence Cabaret, University of Rouen
10:30 — Questions
11:00 — Coffee break
Session 2 : Encountering China
Chair : Lori Maguire, University of Paris 8
11:15 — “Red and yellow : American changing perceptions of China during 1944 to 1954”
Xun Lu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
11:45 — “Well-meaning illusions" : American emotional encounters with China, 1971–1978”
Pete Millwood, London School of Economics
12:15 — Questions
12:45 — Lunch
Session 3 : Writing about the “Far East”
Chair : Iside Costantini, University of Paris III
14:00 — “Chinese History in American Children’s Literature, 1940-2018”
Selda Altan, University of Florida
14:30 — “Beyond the Journalist’s Burden ? Exaggeration and Misrepresentation of Japan in the British News”
Christopher Hayes, Cardiff University
15:00 — "From Japan-bashing to the China Threat : “Yellow Peril” literature in the U.S. from the 1970s to the 2010s"
Juliette Bourdin, University of Paris 8
15:30 — Questions
16:00 — Coffee
Session 4 : Experiencing War
Chair : Sébastien Lefait, University of Paris 8
16:15 — “’Fierce-looking brutes’. Representations and memories of close encounters with ‘the other’ in the Far East, 1939-1945”
Simona Tobia, University of Toulouse
16:45 — “The British Consulate in Hanoi Looks at the North during the Vietnam War”
Lori Maguire, University of Paris 8
17:15 — Questions