![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Aka What topics can I talk about at length to a captive audience?
Pretty Words and the Ugly World: Cut throat Politics, Civil War and Chinese Tang Dynasty Poetry:
Tang Dynasty poetry is influential not only in China, but also in Japan, and Korea. If you know any Chinese poet at all, you will probably know Li Bai and Du Fu. However, Tang Dynasty is also rife with wars, deadly political strife, and frequent disposal of emperors. Politics shaped and broke different poets' lives, which in turn shaped their literary legacy. Bai Juyi 's career was destroyed early because of an engineered scandal, while his friend was always on the right side and rose to the highest position. A failed attempt to restore the emperor's power has ruined many lives, but Chinese literature would take a different turn without it.
Media Censorship in Chinese Boy's Love Novels: Depiction of body parts under the neck is no longer allowed:
By looking back at the changes of standards and hidden rules of Chinese Boy's Love Novels, let's examine how media censorship shaped Chinese popular media, and how creators work with restraints that grows stricter with time.
Who's the real fool? How Emily Grierson and Irene Adler Get the Final Say:
Miss Emily Grierson is an old-school Southern belle in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. Irene Adler is an ex-singer and actress in "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They are both women constantly under men's scrutiny in a classist patriarchal society. Men made assumptions about their lives and tried to restrain them. Let's see how they have the final say and retain their agency in a hostile society.
Pretty Words and the Ugly World: Cut throat Politics, Civil War and Chinese Tang Dynasty Poetry:
Tang Dynasty poetry is influential not only in China, but also in Japan, and Korea. If you know any Chinese poet at all, you will probably know Li Bai and Du Fu. However, Tang Dynasty is also rife with wars, deadly political strife, and frequent disposal of emperors. Politics shaped and broke different poets' lives, which in turn shaped their literary legacy. Bai Juyi 's career was destroyed early because of an engineered scandal, while his friend was always on the right side and rose to the highest position. A failed attempt to restore the emperor's power has ruined many lives, but Chinese literature would take a different turn without it.
Media Censorship in Chinese Boy's Love Novels: Depiction of body parts under the neck is no longer allowed:
By looking back at the changes of standards and hidden rules of Chinese Boy's Love Novels, let's examine how media censorship shaped Chinese popular media, and how creators work with restraints that grows stricter with time.
Who's the real fool? How Emily Grierson and Irene Adler Get the Final Say:
Miss Emily Grierson is an old-school Southern belle in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. Irene Adler is an ex-singer and actress in "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They are both women constantly under men's scrutiny in a classist patriarchal society. Men made assumptions about their lives and tried to restrain them. Let's see how they have the final say and retain their agency in a hostile society.
