Join us for a discussion with two leading experts on: “Market Upheaval and the Breaking of Form: Chinese Cultural Trends since the late 1990s
Jianying Zha is the author of “China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture”. Her Chinese publication includes three books of fiction and two books of essays and journalism. Her most recent book Bashiniandai fangtanlu (Conversations on the Nineteen Eighties) was published to great acclaim and has won several “best book of the year” awards in 2006. Currently based in Beijing, she is also Senior Advisor for India China Institute at the New School University.
Prof. Xudong Zhang is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature and Chair of Dept. of East Asian Studies at New York University. The author of Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms and Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, he is also the co-editor of “Postmodernism and China”; and editor of “Whither China: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China”. His works in Chinese include Piping de zongji (Traces of Criticism); and Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong (Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization).