There is a new issue of Chinese Sociology and Anthropology (Vol. 39, No. 4 (Summer 2007)) that Matt and I edited on New Rural Reconstruction. The hard copy is out although it isn't online just yet.
Contents:
"Guest Editors' Introduction," Alexander Day and Matthew A. Hale
"Deconstructing Modernization," Wen Tiejun
"New Rural Construction and the Chinese Path," He Xuefeng
"Paths and Social Foundations of Rural Graying: The Case Studies of Two Townships in Southern Hunan," Tan Tongxue
"Experiments of New Rural Reconstruction in Lankao," He Huili
"Rural Education and the Ruralization of Knowledge: Qualms and Hopes of the Zhaicheng Experimental Site," Qiu Jiansheng
Best,
Alex
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From: Daniel F. Vukovich <vukovich@hkucc.hku.hk>
To: mlg-ics@andrew.cmu.edu; KIRK DENTON <denton.2@osu.edu>; zhongguo@openflows.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:28:37 AM
Subject: postgrad studentships at HKU (EA cultural studies/comp lit)
SUBJECT: Studentships in Comparative Literature and
Cultural Studies
The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong offers
studentships in conjunction with its Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of
Philosophy (PhD) programmes. We are looking for exceptional candidates
with a strong research plan in any of the following areas:
- Visual Cultures, Digital Media and Film
Studies
- critiques of space; world cinemas; feminist
film theory; film studies and film language; new media technologies and
aesthetics; media and cultural theory; performance studies; popular
culture; theories of representation; contemporary visual culture; virtual
reality and cyberspace; cinemas of Asia and the Asian diaspora
- Feminism and Gender Studies
- feminism and psychoanalytic approaches to
literature; feminist cultural studies; gender and sexuality; technology
and the body; women's writing and womenʼs studies
- Postcolonial and Global Studies
- colonial, postcolonial and globalization
studies; feminist and postcolonial theories; cultural identity and
representation; the cultures of contemporary cities; East-West culture
from the early modern period to the present; orientalism
- Literature and Critical/Cultural Theory
- East-West comparative literary/cultural
relations; French and German theory; postmodernism; problems of
aesthetics; reception studies; semiotics; critical theory; literary and
cultural theory/philosophy; modernism; narrative theory; psychoanalytic
theory; Marxisms
- Hong Kong/China Studies
- Hong Kong cinema, culture and literature;
Chinese Modernism; Hong Kong cultural policy in the global context;
Hong Kong, Taiwan, PRC cultural studies; urban Chinese cultures from the
late Qing to the contemporary; Hong Kong, Taiwan, PRC modern and contemporary
literature and film; historiography of Maoist and post-Mao China
The current faculty includes: Esther Cheung, Esther
Yau, Daniel Vukovich, Mirana May Szeto, and Gina Marchetti.
Closing date for applications for 2008-9 is January 2008.
For more information on the application process to the University of Hong Kong,
visit http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/
For more information on specific requirements for the Department of Comparative
literature, visit, http://www.hku.hk/complit/postgrad/mphilphd_guidelines.htm
For more information on graduate studies in the Department of Comparative
Literature, contact: Gina Marchetti at marchett@hku.hk
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Daniel F. Vukovich
Assistant Professor
School of Humanities
208 Main Bldg.
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Rd.
Hong Kong, CHINA
+852 2859 7934 (office)
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