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SUMMARY:Surfaces in Chinese Visual Culture
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DESCRIPTION:Surfaces are major structural forces in society in the ways th
 at they divide\, depict\, and contain people\, places\, and information. I
 n contemporary and traditional Chinese culture\, surfaces occupy an especi
 ally important position both as venues for aesthetic displays as well as s
 ites of governance and control. Focusing in particular on three types of s
 urface: walls\, tactile surfaces\, and skin\, this workshop probes the cha
 nging roles and meanings of these surfaces across various periods of Chine
 se culture. From the iconic Great Wall to the demolition of walls carried 
 out as part of the vast urban renewal projects in contemporary China to th
 e practice of wall writing\, walls make visible the changing values and ru
 les of society. The skin is an ambiguous surface in Chinese culture\; some
  cutaneous marks are highly stigmatized\, as is the case with many forms o
 f tattoo\, whilst other kinds of inscriptions on the skin\, such as skin w
 hitening\, have been prized. With the omnipresence of touchscreen media in
  contemporary China and the enduring significance of embroidery throughout
  its history\, tactile surfaces have proven to be an enduring and importan
 t medium in Chinese culture albeit with highly divergent functions. The th
 ree panels of this workshop – on walls\, skin\, and tactile surfaces - t
 hink carefully about the sensory\, social\, historical\, and aesthetic dim
 ensions of these surfaces.\n\nPanel 1: Wall\nLi Jinying (Brown University)
 : TBC\nGerda Wielander (University of Westminster): Seeing\, Feeling\, Kno
 wing: Reading China’s 'Open Air Galleries' Through Three Overlapping Fra
 mes\nSun Han (University of Oxford): White Heiti Characters on Red Backgro
 und: Residues of the Socialist Visual Experience\n\nPanel 2: Tactile Surfa
 ces\nChen Jianqing (Washington University): Four Dialectics of the Touchsc
 reen from a Chinese Perspective\nYuan Yan (Huazhong University of Science 
 and Technology): Texture: Another Universe of Technical Image\n\nPanel 3: 
 Skin\nMing Tak Ted Hui  (University of Oxford): Itching to Sensationalise:
  Semantic Shifts of yang 癢 in Premodern Chinese Literature\nRaffaela Ret
 tinger (University of Wuerzburg): Writing on Skin with Needled Brushes: De
 corative Tattooing Practices in Premodern China\nJulius Kochan (University
  of Oxford): ‘White Skin and Rosy Cheeks’ (白里透红): The Changing
  Language of Skin Whitening in Contemporary China
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LOCATION:Dickson Poon Building\, Oxford China Centre - Kin-ku Cheng Lectur
 e Theatre (lower ground floor)\, Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower groun
 d floor) Dickson Poon Building Canterbury Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6LU 
 United Kingdom
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