Session Details

Tuesday, 29 December

505. Margins of the Sinophone: Chinese, Latin American, and African American Contexts

3:30–4:45 p.m., Jefferson, Loews

A special session

Presiding: Michael Gibbs Hill, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia

1. “Culture by Post: English-Language Correspondence Schools in Shanghai,” Michael Gibbs Hill

2. “Black Sinophone: Paul Robeson and the Acoustics of Chinese,” Richard Jean So, Williams Coll.

3. “On (Not) Writing Chinese: The Multilingual Politics of Concrete Sinographic Poetry,” Andrea Sabine Bachner, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

Respondent: Shuang Shen, Penn State Univ., University Park

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