L'edició de literatura xinesa

El portal de notícies ZaiChina publica avui una entrevista a Anne Hélène Suárez Girard, traductora i professora a la Universitat Autònoma, amb interessants reflexions al voltant de qüestions relatives a la traducció de textos xinesos dins del mercat editorial espanyol, els criteris de selecció d'obres i la tasca del traductor.

"Cosmopolitan China", University of Manchester

En Xavier Ortells-Nicolau, membre del grup InterAsia, ha participat a la conferència "Cosmopolitan China", organitzada pel Centre for Chinese Studies i l'Institut Confuci de la University of Manchester els dies 16, 17 i 18 de maig, amb la presentació "Beyond the Ruin: Transnational Negotiations of Chinese Architectural Heritage".

Abstract
 
The negotiation of China's architectural heritage has been, since Liang Sicheng's pioneering efforts at constructing an indigenous architectural history, an arena permeated by diverse and sometimes conflicting international actors and influences. China's ongoing re-urbanization programs have inescapably accentuated different ways of understanding the value of architectural patrimony and conservation. Just recently, when Liang's former residence, a symbol of preservationist attitudes, was demolished, an official tackled criticism with the now too-common answer that a replica would be built.

In front of solipsistic cultural approaches of political and cultural authorities both foreign and Chinese, the proposals of a group of internationally-trained Chinese architects, designers and artists have aimed at bridging between different cultural traditions and social needs, synthesizing aesthetic, cultural, and even political traditions into site-and-time specific projects that search for alternatives to the milieu of contemporary, globalized cities.

The notion of recycling, as previously explored by anthropology (Helen Siu) and urban studies (Madeleine Yue Dong, Michael Dutton) scholars, offers a chance to conceptualize the work of different artists and social agents, like architects Liu Jiakun and Wang Shu, or artists Xu Bing and Song Dong, whose work can be characterized by an intelligent reusability, the vindication of amateurism and the recycling of transnational elements, all of them put to work to revive tradition and culture while producing socially-sustainable alternatives to the speed and scope of China’s developmentalism.

In this sense, my presentation focuses on the figure of designer, curator, and self-assigned social engineer Ou Ning. As researcher and documentarist, Ou has produced a number of films about urban phenomena for an unquestionably transnational audience. Similarly, his job as curator of the Shenzhen-HK Architecture Biennale in 2009 has underscored his privileged position in the intersection of international actors and China's intellectual community.

Taizidang versus tuanpai: What's next for China's succession?

Seán Golden, member of the East-Asia research team, has published a commentary on the Bo Xilai scandal in China in the CIDOB Foundation of Barcelona's think tank publication Opinión CIDOB, n.º 148, 11 May 2012: Taizidang versus tuanpai: What's next for China's succession?

La Cina verso la nuova Leadership. Le sfide politiche ed economiche nell'anno del drago

Seán Golden, member of the Inter-Asia research group, spoke at the conference La Cina verso la nuova Leadership. Le sfide politiche ed economiche nell'anno del drago, organized by the Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea, Università Ca'Foscari Venezia (Italy), on 3 May 2012, in collaboration with the journal east. rivista europea di geopolitica and the think tank Istituto per gli Studi di Politiche internazionale on the occasion of launching Numero 41, Ombre cinesi (Aprile 2012) in Venice.

Abstract

The Party-State of the PRC is going through a generational change that will be formalised by the Party Congress in October 2012. The rapidly changing status of the PRC in the new world order requires a rethinking of many of the ideological bases of the socialist revolution in China. There are epistemic and interpretive communities acting as advisers to the new leadership that are proposing new paradigms “with Chinese characteristics” for international relations theory: Qin Yaqing, Yan Xuetong and Zhao Tingyang as examples.

Il Partito-Stato del PRC sta attraversando un cambio generazionale che sarà formalizzato dal Congresso del Partito in ottobre 2012. Lo stato di rapida evoluzione del PRC nel nuovo ordine mondiale richiede un ripensamento di molte delle basi ideologiche della rivoluzione socialista in Cina. Ci sono comunità epistemiche e interpretative che agiscono come consulenti per la nuova dirigenza che stanno proponendo paradigmi “con caratteristiche cinesi” per le teorie delle relazioni internazionali: Yaqing Qin, Yan Xuetong e Zhao Tingyang come esempi.

Constructing a Discourse of "Scientific Development" and "Ecological Civilisation" in China. Ecology and Ideology in Chinese Thought

Seán Golden, member of the Inter-Asia research group, spoke at the 9th EastAsiaNet Research Workshop at Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal, 19-21 April 2012) dedicated to risk and the environment in East ASia on the subject of Constructing a Discourse of "Scientific Development" and "Ecological Civilisation" in China. Ecology and Ideology in Chinese Thought.

Abstract

Hu Jintao introduced the concept of “scientific development” into official Party discourse. This is understood to refer to the need for better environmental management, the reduction of environmental degradation and conservation of the environment. Think tanks of the Central Committee have elaborated a discourse of “Ecological Civilisation” to accompany the previously constructed discourses of “Material Civilisation” (the economy), “Spiritual Civilisation” (culture) and “Political Civilisation” (democracy and the rule of law). References to Nature in an environmental or ecological context are rare in the history of Chinese thought, much more associated with Daoism than with Confucianism, but they do exist. Lynn White (“The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”) pointed out long ago that the book of Genesis lies behind Western notions of the exploitation of nature. Frans de Wahl (The Ape and the Sushi Master) suggested that Japanese primatologists made important discoveries about the role of culture among primates earlier than their Western counterparts because of their grounding in a Shinto perception of the natural world. This study proposes to compare and contrast the ideological bases of Euroamerican and East Asian approaches to the environment.