Mirades i perspectives. La Xina des d'Espanya

Beijing, Sara Janini

El proper dimecres 8 de maig s'inaugura una exposició col·lectiva de fotografia, organitzada per la Fundació Institut Confuci de Barcelona en col·laboració amb el Grup de Recerca InterAsia.

La mostra inclou imatges de la Xina dels fotògrafs Sergi Bernal, Víctor Cañellas, Ferrán Castrillo, César Merino, Sara Janini i Carles Mercader.

Del 8 al 31 de maig
Espai Francesc Català-Roca, Espai de fotografia
Centre Cívic Casa Golferichs (Gran Via, 491, c/Viladomat).
Metro: Urgell

8 de maig
19h: taula rodona amb els fotògrafs Ferran Castrillo, Sergi Bernal, César Merino i Carles Mercader, i coordinada per Joaquín Beltrán (InterAsia).
20h: inaguració de l'exposició

Università Ca'Foscari Venezia Visiting Professor

During the Spring Term 2013, Sean Golden, a member of the Inter-Asia Research Group, has been invited to be Visiting Professor at the Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea (DSAAM) of the Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, where he is teaching a. course on Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Cultural Studies, Modernism & Postmodernism (Storia della filosofia e religioni della Cina antica) in the Lingue e civiltà dell'Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea (LICAAM) M.A. programme.

He has also given a PhD lecture on Liu Xie 刘勰, Ernest Fenollosa and 20th century avant-garde writing and art, and a lecture to undergraduate students of Ca'Foscari's International College on The Role of Ancient Chinese Thought in Modern Chinese Politics & Foreign Policy.

He has also been named to be a member of the university's Collegio docenti del Dottorato for the PhD programme in Lingue e Civiltà dell'Asia e dell'Africa mediterranea.

Fotografia pequinesa de García-Alix a La Virreina

 Fins el proper diumenge 5 de maig, a La Virreina, es poden veure algunes de les fotografies que Alberto García-Alix (Lleó, 1956) va fer a la Xina durant diferents visites des del 2007. Després d'un primer contacte, l'any 2008 féu una residència al Three Shadows Center三影堂, un important centre dedicat a la fotografia contemporània creat pels fotògrafs Rong Rong (ben conegut per les fotografies del col·lectiu artístic del East Village i les sèries sobre destrucció urbana), i la seva dona, la també fotògrafa japonesa inri.

"Retos para Xi Jinping"

La revista Global Asia ha publicado un artículo de Sean Golden / 高遁, miembro del Grupo de Investigación Inter-Asia, sobre los "Retos para Xi Jinping" / 习近平面临的挑战.

Linking Ancient and Contemporary: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese History of Literature and Thought

The Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia esull'Africa Mediterranea (DSAAM) of the Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, in collaboration with the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of  北京大学 Peking University, organised an international conference in Venice from  21-22 March  2013 on the subject of "Linking Ancient and Contemporary:Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese History of Literature andThought".  

Sean Golden, a member of the Inter-Asia research Group, spoke at the conference on the subject of “Liu Xie 劉勰’s Wénxīn Diāolóng 文心雕龙, Ernest Fenollosa’s complete The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry and 20th century avant garde American writing outside the Ezra Pound tradition”. 

Abstract

Ezra Pound’s edition of Ernest Fenollosa’s manuscripts for The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry was a landmark in modernist European poetry and the imagist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Pound’s work has stood for Fenollosa’s vision since then and has been the subject of controversy among Sinologist’s for its emphasis on the graphic elements of Chinese written characters. A recent edition of the complete Fenollosa manuscripts by Haun Saussy, Jonathan Stalling and Lucas Klein has made it possible to see the differences between Fenollosa’s interests and Pound’s interpretations and to restore Fenollosa’s original intentions. Even though Sinologists have questioned the Fenollosa-Pound emphasis on the graphic elements of Chinese writing as a component part of Chinese poetry, Chapter 39 of the classical Chinese text  文心雕龙 Wénxīn diāolóng by  劉勰 Liu Xie (ca. 466-ca. 520) refers specifically to this phenomenon as a mode in the composition of Chinese poetry. Case studies of work by John Cage and Jackson Mac Low show that Fenollosa’s impact on 20th century avant garde literature went far beyond the works of Ezra Pound.