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Forbidden Books and Filtered Words: Transgressive Communication in China from the Cultural Revolution to the Internet
10/26/2010 Scholars lecture by Prof. Guobin Yang: Forbidden Books and Filtered Words
Location: Annenberg School for Communication, Room 109 - 6:15 p.m.
Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
Barnard College, Columbia University
(Lecture begins at 6:15 p.m.)
Abstract:
Many books were banned in the ascetic social environment of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, as reading, writing, and publishing came under harsh political and ideological control. Yet youth of the Cultural Revolution generation surreptitiously sought, hand-copied, circulated, and even wrote forbidden novels, poems, and songs. By examining these clandestine cultural practices, this talk explores how transgressive communication using “primitive” media forms became a means of self-construction and social change. A comparison with modes of expression and censorship in the internet age reveals the promises and pitfalls of the information revolution.
About the speaker:
Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. Author of the award-winning book The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009) and editor (with Ching Kwan Lee) of Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (2007), he has also published widely on the Red Guard movement, the 1989 Chinese student movement, and the development of civil society and environmental activism in contemporary China. Yang received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation research grant and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has a Ph.D. in English Literature with a specialty in Literary Translation from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University.