C5: Global Chinese Network and Transnational Cinema

Seminar Leader: Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, University of Texas � Austin

Friday, April 16, 2:00 � 4:00 PM, Vanderbilt

Cindy S. C. Chan, Carleton College: �Hong Kong Cinema in Global Market: The Competitive Advantage of Network Civilizations�

Jie Chen, Rutgers University: “History, Memory, and Construction of Identity – Presentation of Past in Ann Hui’s Song of Exile and Ordinary Heroes”

Ping Fu, Carleton College: �Beyond the Visual Aura: Feng Xiaogang�s Projected Transnationalism in The Big Shot�s Funeral�

Kai-Man Chang, University of Texas � Austin: �Tsai Ming-liang�s Taipei Queer Stories�

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 � 4:00 PM, Vanderbilt

Yiman Wang, Haverford College: “The Unbearable Lightness of Passing: Border-Crossing and the Asian Star Body”

Feng Lan, Florida State University: “Jianghu against Tianxia: China Re-Visualized in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's Hero”

Li Yang, University of Texas � Austin: �Contending the Ethnic, National, and Global � the Cultural Phenomenon of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon�

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, University of Texas � Austin: �Medea�s Children and Cio-Cio-San�s Heirs:� Stages for the Second Generation�