Dear friends and colleagues,
I'm writing to invite you to the last of the Birmingham Global China lectures tomorrow. Professor Ien Ang will speak on "Chinatowns and the Rise of China." Her work intersects with cultural studies, nation-state, identity and globalization. The lecture venue is Main lecture theatre of the Muirhead tower and start time is 4.15pm. There will be a reception afterward. You can find the abstract for her lecture below.
The remaining lectures will be at Cambridge: Angela Leung on May 14, Eugenio Menegon on June 11th and Shu-mei Shih on June 12th. For more information, please visit this website: https://globalchinalectures.wordpress.com
Abstract:
In the early 20th century, Chinatowns in the West were ghettos for Chinese immigrants who were marginalized and considered ‘other’ by the dominant society. In western eyes, these areas were the no-go zones of the Oriental other. Now more than a hundred years later, ‘Chinatowns’ still exist in most capital cities but their meaning and role has been transformed. As a consequence of globalization, rapid Asian (including Chinese) migration and the geopolitical shift in power towards China, Chinatowns are now, more often than not, transnational hubs for economic and cultural exchange and flow, which may prefigure the changing global cultural relations in the 21st century.
Speaker Bio: Ien Ang, Director Institute for Culture and Society, Distinguished Profess of Cultural Studies at the University of Western Sydney. Author of Watching Dallas. Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination (Routledge, 1985); Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World (Routledge, 1996); On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West (Routledge, 2001); The SBS Story: the Challenge of Cultural Diversity (University of New South Wales Press, 2008).
With best regards,
Shirley
Dr Shirley Ye
Lecturer in Asian History
School of History and Cultures
University of Birmingham
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