ICS Lecture: Li Guo, "Gendering the Nation-State: Revisiting Nineteenth Century Chinese Women’s Tanci Novels"

March 3, 2017

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Mendenhall Lab 115 (125 S Oval Mall)

Add to Calendar 2017-03-03 17:00:00 2017-03-03 18:30:00 ICS Lecture: Li Guo, "Gendering the Nation-State: Revisiting Nineteenth Century Chinese Women’s Tanci Novels" The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the "China in Transition" Lecture Series with:Li GuoAssociate ProfessorLanguage, Philosophy, and Communications Studies DepartmentUtah State University"Gendering the Nation-State: Revisiting Nineteenth Century Chinese Women’s Tanci Novels"Flyer: ForthcomingAbstract: Late imperial Chinese social and intellectual histories witness heterogeneous examples of the interplay between shifting nationalist discourses, and women’s literary, cultural and political participation and burgeoning proto-feminist activism. This project explores how nineteenth century women writers illustrated socio-political ideals of the nation-state in tanci fiction, which are novel-length chantefable narratives. My study investigates how tanci authors negotiated with social, political and moral contingencies in transcending the rhetoric of female sacrifice for the nation, and projecting transformative concepts of selfhood. Importantly, nineteenth century tanci novels bespeak the contesting relationship between discourses of gender and nationhood, by portraying women as military generals, prime ministers, jurisdiction officials, and courageous warriors, indicating writing as a vehicle for mediating gendered political consciousness. These utopian narratives introduce readers to a rich and under-studied repertoire of women’s fictional tradition which enriches literati discourses about nation and self-expression, and foreshadows modern concepts of the nation-state.Bio: Li Guo (PhD. University of Iowa) is an associate professor of Chinese language and literature at the Utah State University. Her research interests include late imperial and modern Chinese women's literature, chantefable narratives, gender and sexuality theory and performance studies. She is the author of Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth Century China (Purdue University Press, 2015). Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Tulsa Studies of Women’s Literature, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Film International, and Consciousness: Literature and the Arts.Free and open to the public. This event made possible in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center and by OSU's Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Mendenhall Lab 115 (125 S Oval Mall) OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2017-03-03 16:00:00 2017-03-03 17:30:00 ICS Lecture: Li Guo, "Gendering the Nation-State: Revisiting Nineteenth Century Chinese Women’s Tanci Novels" The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the "China in Transition" Lecture Series with:Li GuoAssociate ProfessorLanguage, Philosophy, and Communications Studies DepartmentUtah State University"Gendering the Nation-State: Revisiting Nineteenth Century Chinese Women’s Tanci Novels"Flyer: ForthcomingAbstract: Late imperial Chinese social and intellectual histories witness heterogeneous examples of the interplay between shifting nationalist discourses, and women’s literary, cultural and political participation and burgeoning proto-feminist activism. This project explores how nineteenth century women writers illustrated socio-political ideals of the nation-state in tanci fiction, which are novel-length chantefable narratives. My study investigates how tanci authors negotiated with social, political and moral contingencies in transcending the rhetoric of female sacrifice for the nation, and projecting transformative concepts of selfhood. Importantly, nineteenth century tanci novels bespeak the contesting relationship between discourses of gender and nationhood, by portraying women as military generals, prime ministers, jurisdiction officials, and courageous warriors, indicating writing as a vehicle for mediating gendered political consciousness. These utopian narratives introduce readers to a rich and under-studied repertoire of women’s fictional tradition which enriches literati discourses about nation and self-expression, and foreshadows modern concepts of the nation-state.Bio: Li Guo (PhD. University of Iowa) is an associate professor of Chinese language and literature at the Utah State University. Her research interests include late imperial and modern Chinese women's literature, chantefable narratives, gender and sexuality theory and performance studies. She is the author of Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth Century China (Purdue University Press, 2015). Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Tulsa Studies of Women’s Literature, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Film International, and Consciousness: Literature and the Arts.Free and open to the public. This event made possible in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center and by OSU's Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.  Mendenhall Lab 115 (125 S Oval Mall) Department of East Asian Languages and Literature deall@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the "China in Transition" Lecture Series with:

Li Guo
Associate Professor
Language, Philosophy, and Communications Studies Department
Utah State University

"Gendering the Nation-State: Revisiting Nineteenth Century Chinese Women’s Tanci Novels"

Flyer: Forthcoming

Abstract: Late imperial Chinese social and intellectual histories witness heterogeneous examples of the interplay between shifting nationalist discourses, and women’s literary, cultural and political participation and burgeoning proto-feminist activism. This project explores how nineteenth century women writers illustrated socio-political ideals of the nation-state in tanci fiction, which are novel-length chantefable narratives. My study investigates how tanci authors negotiated with social, political and moral contingencies in transcending the rhetoric of female sacrifice for the nation, and projecting transformative concepts of selfhood. Importantly, nineteenth century tanci novels bespeak the contesting relationship between discourses of gender and nationhood, by portraying women as military generals, prime ministers, jurisdiction officials, and courageous warriors, indicating writing as a vehicle for mediating gendered political consciousness. These utopian narratives introduce readers to a rich and under-studied repertoire of women’s fictional tradition which enriches literati discourses about nation and self-expression, and foreshadows modern concepts of the nation-state.

Bio: Li Guo (PhD. University of Iowa) is an associate professor of Chinese language and literature at the Utah State University. Her research interests include late imperial and modern Chinese women's literature, chantefable narratives, gender and sexuality theory and performance studies. She is the author of Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth Century China (Purdue University Press, 2015). Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Tulsa Studies of Women’s Literature, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Film International, and Consciousness: Literature and the Arts.

Free and open to the public.

This event made possible in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center and by OSU's Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.