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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Translation as Jungle Warfare: How Zhang Guixing’s novel The Crossing of the Boars Crossed into English
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/E7rRM\n\nMalaysian-Taiwanese novelist Chang Kuei-hsing (b. 1956\, publishes as Zhang Guixing) has spent\ndecades doing for tropical Asia what Gabriel García Márquez did for Latin America: enchanting\na land with a violent history. Set in wartime Sarawak\, *The Crossing of the Boars* (Ye zhu du he\,\n2018\, rev. 2024)\, released in English this year\, dazzles with a wartime mystery enmeshed in an\necological fantasia: ghostly colonists mating like guppies\, macaques mirroring Japanese war\ncriminals\, bomber storks\, ominous urinating porcupines\, wildfire-igniting squirrels\, monstrous\nquagmires\, vengeful flying she-vampires\, and herd upon herd of insatiable bearded pigs.\n\nChristopher Rea discusses how he and Julie M. Wang rendered this award-winning novel into\nEnglish\, including the process of researching a historical epic whose architectonic sentences\nteem with flora and fauna found only in Borneo. In doing so\, he offers answers to a more\ngeneral question: When faced with a challenging text\, how can a translator get out alive?\n\nChristopher Rea is professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.\nHis book-length translations from Chinese into English include *China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories\nand Farces by Xu Zhuodai* (Cornell\, open access)\, *The Book of Swindles and More Swindles from\nthe Late Ming* (both with Bruce Rusk\, Columbia)\, *Humans\, Beasts\, and Ghosts by Qian Zhongshu*\n(Columbia)\, and Zhang Guixing’s *The Crossing of the Boars: A Novel* (with Julie M. Wang\,\nColumbia\, 2026). He is also the founding director and lead translator of the Chinese Film\nClassics Project\, the world’s largest free online collection of early Chinese films with English\nsubtitles.\n\nhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-crossing-of-the-boars/9780231217668/\n\nhttps://asia.ubc.ca/profile/christopher-rea/\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:150042-21907901@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150042
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Literature,Languages,Ecology,China,center for southeast asian studies,center for chinese studies,Books,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
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DTSTAMP:20260810T164813
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Lee Kuan Yew Goes Global?
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: http://myumi.ch/PbkD4\n\nThere is little that connects the Chinese Communist Party\, British Conservative Party\, Kenyan leadership\, Silicon Valley right-wing\, and elites in post-Soviet states. But they all exhibit an acute fascination with founding Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew\, invoking select strands of his political thought and practice to legitimate their own political projects or imaginaries. Yet\, while interest in Lee outside of Singapore is consistently growing\, within Singaporean society there is a growing sense of exhaustion and indifference in appealing to his figure – especially when it is perceived as a cynical means to derive political profit for his long-ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). Using this observation as a launching pad\, this lecture explores the contradictions of Lee’s legacy and develops rudiments to pursue a global history of Lee Kuan Yew\, bringing his international reception and footprints within a single frame. This entails treating Lee as a global figure of world-historical importance\, situating his political thought\, movements\, and interventions within global trends and networks. While this global approach magnifies Lee’s stature\, it also amplifies the less comfortable aspects of his legacy: his “original sin” is no longer the detention without trial\, but his role in legitimizing the bloody Vietnam War. A global history of Lee thereby presents intensified contradictions to grapple with.\n\nQuah Say Jye is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. He is a political theorist of postcolonial modernity\, with a focus on Southeast Asia. His writing is forthcoming or can be found at the *American Journal of Political Science*\, *Review of International Studies*\, *Journal of Contemporary Asia*\, *Critical Asian Studies*\, *International Affairs*\, and *Perspectives on Politics*. For more\, see https://quahsayjye.wordpress.com/about/.\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:150078-21907988@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150078
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Southeast Asia,Politics,international policy,center for southeast asian studies,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
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DTSTAMP:20260610T181655
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261206T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gamelan Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Comprising of seventy-five gongs\, percussion and other instruments\, the U-M gamelan\, named Kyai Telaga Madu (Venerable Lake of Honey)\, is part of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. The U-M Gamelan Ensemble offers members the opportunity to explore new music composed for gamelan and helps train an important generation of scholars in Southeast Asian music.\n\nGamelan performances bring the music\, dance and puppetry of Central Java to the stage in Ann Arbor\, often featuring eminent Javanese artists-in-residence. The gamelan program is part of U-M’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies at LSA.
UID:148736-21904678@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148736
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Music,Interdisciplinary,Free,Diversity,Culture
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
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DTSTAMP:20260610T181728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270410T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270410T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gamelan Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Comprising of seventy-five gongs\, percussion and other instruments\, the U-M gamelan\, named Kyai Telaga Madu (Venerable Lake of Honey)\, is part of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. The U-M Gamelan Ensemble offers members the opportunity to explore new music composed for gamelan and helps train an important generation of scholars in Southeast Asian music.\n\nGamelan performances bring the music\, dance and puppetry of Central Java to the stage in Ann Arbor\, often featuring eminent Javanese artists-in-residence. The gamelan program is part of U-M’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies at LSA.
UID:148848-21905013@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Music,Interdisciplinary,Free,Diversity,Culture
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
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