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SUMMARY:Chinese Postwar Comedies of Domesticity
DESCRIPTION:Chinese Postwar Comedies of Domesticity\na seminar with Professor Christopher Rea (UBC)\nTime: 2:10pm – 4pm\, October 15 (Tuesday) 2019\nLocation: IAB 918 \nIt’s the late 1940s and the war is won\, but there’s still trouble at home. Perhaps your husband has\ntaken a mistress\, or even a second wife. Perhaps your best friend who’s come back from the war\nturns out to be your wife’s childhood sweetheart\, throwing your marriage into turmoil. Perhaps\nyou yourself have returned from the interior to find that you can no longer afford a place to live\nin the city. Or perhaps your home is now occupied by a traitor. What do you do? Laugh? Cry?\nFight? Question? This talk will consider why\, after World War II\, Chinese filmmakers became\nso interested in dramas of domesticity\, and why\, during a time of civil war\, their preferred mode\nfor representing trouble at home was often comedy. Films to be discussed include Long Live the\nMissus! (1947)\, Diary of a Homecoming (1947)\, Spring River Flows East (1947)\, Spring in a\nSmall Town (1948)\, Wanderings of Three-Hairs the Orphan (1949)\, and Crows and\nSparrows (1949). \nChristopher Rea is Professor of Chinese Literature and Associate Head of the Department of\nAsian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is author of The Age of Irreverence: A\nNew History of Laughter in China (2015; Chinese\, 2018) and the forthcoming Chinese Film\nClassics. His other books include the translations China’s Chaplin (2019) and The Book of\nSwindles (with Bruce Rusk\, 2017)\, and the edited books Imperfect Understanding (2018)\nand The Business of Culture (with Nicolai Volland\, 2015). \nhttps://asia.ubc.ca/persons/christopher-rea/ \nSuggested viewing:\nLong Live the Missus! 太太萬歲 (dir. Sang Hu\, 1947\, with English subtitles)\nhttp://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/long-live-the-missus/ \nYou can also hear Professor Rea’s comments on Long Live the Missus! here:\nLecture 1 (14 mins): https://youtu.be/J-NW0rR71RQ\nLecture 2 (12 mins): https://youtu.be/XtAlbyth7Nk \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/chinese-postwar-comedies-of-domesticity/
LOCATION:918 International Affairs Building
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