Speaker: ZHANG Xudong (New York University, the United States)

Date: September 24, 2015 – Thursday

Time: 18:00

Venue: West Hall, Library, Songjiang Campus

Language: Chinese, English

Speaker Biography: Zhang Xudong is Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor and Chair of East Asian Studies at New York University, and founding director of the International Center for Critical Theory (a consortium of Peking University, New York University, University of Tokyo and East China Normal University). He is also Director of China House NYU. Zhang’s research focuses on modernism and its links with criticism within and beyond the Chinese context, and research interests include modern Chinese literature and culture; critical theory; twentieth-century Chinese literature, film, and intellectual discourses; literary theory and aesthetics; political and philosophical discourses of modernity. He has published widely on critical theory and transcultural comparisons of Chinese and European modernities.