Transcultural Empathy and Colonial Mediation

Chair: Prof. Daniel Elam

Xu, Ziheng

Sichuan University
Li Jieren: The French Experience as a Path to the Chinese Question— Reexamining Suffering, Sympathy, and Transcultural Care in Sympathy

Cen, Jiaxi

Beijing Normal University
Translating the Margins: Care, Colonial Mediation, and Proximate Sinology in Gustave Schlegel

Bi, Baihan

The University of Hong Kong
From Represented Care to Immersive Care: Multatuli’s Max Havelaar and Pramoedya’s This Earth of Mankind

Yu, Jingyuan

University of California, Berkeley
Care, Sensory Intimacy, and Fleeting Utopias under Japanese Colonial Rule