Nick Stember 沈若昆

Historian and translator of Chinese comics & sci-fi, postdoc @Nationalmuseet, tree. He/him.

[Ben Katchor @benkatchor]

Beyond Captain America and Akira: Heroes and Villains in Chinese Comics and Caricature with Damian Mandzunowski & Lena Henningsen, Heidelberg University
https://t.co/DanSGu4ZEN

[Damian M @zhong_daming]

With this September, our ERC-funded project #ChinaComx starts. Researching comics culture in the People's Republic of China, the project aims to bridge the fields of PRC history, global comics studies, and visual history. See https://t.co/Pzw7eShQrx for details, and get in touch!

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Writing Chinese: Technology and Literature #CFP [special issue guest edited by @heatherinwood w/ keynotes by Michel Hockx & Jiang Yuqin] Deadline: 31st August 2024 https://t.co/37ipnZ9vpO @WritingChinese

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Still a few more days to enter our first Bai Meigui creative writing competition! Judged by @jennywcreative, @Kit_Fan_, and Karen Cheung, it's on the theme of 'Writing Hong Kong' - find out more here! Deadline June 30th. https://t.co/pWThhY4sAV

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

What foreign films have been popular in Chinese-language territories, with what audiences, when, and why? [And vis versa?] And what forces and practices have shaped those transborder flows and what are the impacts and results of those flows?
https://t.co/IImgVSy9kx

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

"Chinamaniacs, whether women or children, are too preoccupied with amassing ceramics that they have forgotten how to behave according to Victorian notions of ‘natural’ gendered behaviour and thus, 'chinamania was charged with moral corruption'" https://t.co/xIPZXBzYFW

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

"...Singaporean comics’ negative capability, in contrast to the Singaporean government’s political capacity to swiftly and robustly respond to the pandemic, opens up spaces for readers to reflect on social, political, and cultural circumstances surrounding the pandemic."

[ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies @ITTjournal]

15.1 is out! It features Weihsin Gui on graphic medicine, Amy Matthewson on Du Maurier, and Sohini Naiya and Smriti Singh on Aranyaka. We also have some fantastic student-made zines in our "From the Classroom" section and a collection of new book reviews! https://t.co/6Wqdf2dgHr

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

"Notes from the Consulting Room" (诊疗室手记) a short story by Zuo Fei 昨非 / translated by @dylanleviking and Yun Qin Wang for @PaperRepublic 's new series _Home_ https://t.co/gsQTMpG6sx

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

The relief prints of the woodblock on the cover are a nice touch — looks like early 50s marriage law?

[Astrid Møller-Olsen, Dr. 艾喜 🐸 @aixi_mo]

CfP "to demonstrate the analytical potential of 'queer pop media in global Asias' in (re)negotiating, (re)positioning, and (re)formulating socio-culturally marginalized identities, subjectivities, and desire in a global cultural landscape" https://t.co/oHu5wYHPfm

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

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[Paul Bevan @Sinobevan]

Book launch: Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation. SOAS 5.00, 31 May. The editors will be there & a handful of contributors. I'll play a very small part indeed talking about my chapter for a few minutes #Sappho's Younger Brother
Big congrats to editors!

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Jiang Jiehong @CCVAnetwork presents the third and final keynote for #CCVA2023 “Shanghai: Sleepless Theatre” beginning with a personal reflection on curation in post-Covid Shanghai

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Lan Xiao @UniofOxford considers shifting depictions of Shanghai in her paper “Behind the Aesthetics of the ‘Magic City’” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Shi Hantao presents the second #CCVA2023 keynote “Shanghai Spring: Photographic perspectives during the 2022 Covid lockdown” @CCVAnetwork

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Weiying Yu @HongKongPolyU takes us to the hyperreal frontier in her paper “Islanding Media and Infrastructure: Ecological Space, Submarine Cable and the Aesthetics of Chongming Island” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Anqi Li @HKUniversity discusses urban renewal and gentrification in her paper “The Rise and Fall of Shanghai’s West Bund” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Hongwei Bao @ University of Nottingham presents a history of LGBTQ cultural expression in his paper “Queer Screen Culture in Shanghai: The Development of a Magical, Queer City” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Ellen Larsen @UChicago discusses the move away from ideology and consumerism in her paper “Art for Sale: Early Video Art in Shanghai” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Rafael Ortiz Martínez de Canero @ O+R Studio considers the city as a living organism in his paper “Hybrid, Polymorphic and Borderline: The Contemporary Urban Experience of Shanghai from Domestic to Territorial” #CCVA2023

[Nick Stember 沈若昆 @beckminster]

Karolina Pawlik @ XianJiaoTongUni plumbs the irrational depths in her paper “Shanghai and the Unconscious: China’s Hidden Dreams, Fears and Desires” #CCVA2023 @CCVAnetwork