Visual Media, Materiality, and Literary Worlds

Chair: Dr. Winnie Yee

Chen, Jiayu

Yunnan University
Sound, Image Monad, Historical Redemption: The Philosophical Implications of Benjamin’s Broadcasting Practice

Qu, Fangyuan

University of Münster
Circulating Care: Käthe Kollwitz’s Prints and the Transnational Aesthetics of Revolutionary Empathy in Interwar Shanghai

Wang, Jiayi

The University of Hong Kong
Cinema’s Specular Death: The Doppelgänger from Literary Anxiety to Medium-Ontological Autoscopy

Qiu, Shiyun

Columbia University
The Gourd, the Mirror, and the Stone: Optical Devices and Worlds-Remaking in Qing Dream of the Red Chamber Sequels