Asian Studies Seminar Series: Zhaokun Xin

In brief

Date - 4 December 2024

Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square

Speaker - Dr Zhaokun Xin (University of Manchester)

Title - Enactment and Embodiment: Retributive Anger in the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan

About the speaker

Zhaokun Xin is Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. His research is rooted in late imperial Chinese literature and draws on the fields of affect and gender studies, ritual theory, and medical humanities.

His current book project seizes on the emotion of anger to explore the discursive reconfiguration of emotional norms in late imperial Chinese literature. He is also broadly interested in translation studies and Sino-Japanese literary exchanges.

How to attend

This event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is required, simply turn up on the day.

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