现代主义与东方文化国际学术研讨会
3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“Modernism and the Orient”
中国 杭州 Hangzhou, China
4-7 June 2010
2010 年 6 月 4－7 日
Conference website:
http://www.sisins.zju.edu.cn/modernism/IndexE.asp
现代主义与东方文化国际学术研讨会
3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“Modernism and the Orient”
中国杭州 Hangzhou, China
4-7 June 2010
2010 年 6 月 4－7 日
Conference website: http://www.sisins.zju.edu.cn/modernism/IndexE.asp
Sponsors: Zhejiang University (浙江大学)
Hangzhou Normal University （杭州师范大学）
University of New Orleans （美国新奥尔良大学）
Shanghai International Studies University （上海外国语大学）
Organizing Committee:
Daniel Albright, Harvard University
Ronald Bush, Oxford University
Fen Gao（高奋）, Zhejiang University (Executive Director)
Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia
Zhaoming Qian （钱兆明）, University of New Orleans (Director)
Sabine Sielke, University of Bonne
Qiping Yin（殷企平）, Hangzhou Normal University
Helong Zhang（张和龙）, Shanghai International Studies University
Staff :
Mary Bamburg
Douglas Barry
Yanhua Chen（陈艳华）
Zhe Chen （陈哲）
Guang Ding （丁光）
Yiwen Fu （符亦文）
Guoliang Guo （郭国良）
Zheng Hong （洪峥）
Jian Jiang （姜剑）
Xiying Jiang (姜希颖)
Xuexia Liang （梁雪霞）
Qiaodan Lu （卢巧丹）
Yanfei Lu （卢燕飞）
Xiaoli Ma （马晓俐）
Fasheng Peng（彭发胜）
Xiu Peng （彭秀）
Hongsheng Sui（隋红升）
Chen Su （苏忱）
Yanping Sun （孙艳萍）
Zhewei Sun （孙浙微）
Fan Yang （杨帆）
Hanhan Zhang （张寒寒）
Friday, 4 June
9:00-20:00: Registration (Santai Hotel Lobby)
18:00-20:30: Reception and Dinner (Santai Hotel Restaurant)
Saturday, 5 June
8:00-8:30: Greetings and Opening Remarks
Tianlang Ball Room
Chair: Qiping Yin, Hangzhou Normal University
1. Welcome from President of Zhejiang University
2. Welcome from President of Hangzhou Normal University
8:30-8:50: Photo-taking
Santai Hotel Front Lawn
9:00-10:40: Plenary Session One
Tianlang Ball Room
Asian Prelude to Modernism
Chair: Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia
1. Zhang Longxi, City University of Hong Kong: “Elective Affinities? On
Wilde's Reading of Zhuangzi”
2. Sabine Sielke, University of Bonne: “‘Orientalizing’ Emily Dickinson and
Marianne Moore - Complicating Modernism?”
3. Daniel Albright, Harvard University: “Yeats, Pound, Asia, and the Music of
the Body”
10:40-10:50: Coffee Break
10:50-12:00: Plenary Session Two
Tianlang Ball Room
Post-World War II Pound and Moore
Chair: Sabine Sielke, University of Bonne
1. Ronald Bush, Oxford University: “‘Light as the branch of Kuanon’: Guanyin
and Pound's Italian Drafts for the Pisan Cantos”
2. Zhaoming Qian, University of New Orleans, “Moore’s ‘Lost’ Essay on the
Tao and Her Late Animal Poetry”
12:00-13:00: Buffet Lunch (Santai Hotel Restaurant)
13:00-13:30: Buses from Santai Hotel to Zhejiang University Zijingang Campus
13:30-14:50: Concurrent Session One A
Modernism out of Japan
Zijingang East 6, Room 221
Chair: Dorsey Kleitz, Tokyo Women’s Christian University
1. Yi Li, Central China Normal University: “An Aesthetic Focus on Kigo in Richard
Wright’s Haiku”
2. Edward Marx, Ehime University: “Yone Noguchi among the Modernists”
3. Tateo Imamura, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University: “ ‘Tami’s Dream’: A
Bridge Between Pound, Hemingway, and Japan”
13:30-14:50: Concurrent Session One B
Visual Modernism/Post-Modernism
Zijingang East 6, Room 222
Chair: Huibin He, Zhejiang University
1. Shanke Cao, Guangdong University of Business Studies: “Here birds are alive
with mountain-light, And the mind of man touches peace in a pool”-------the
Buddhistic trait in Rexroth’s Poetry
2. Fan Fang, Zhejiang University: “Collage in Paintings and Novels: From Pablo
Picasso to William Gass and Hua Yu”
3. Jiaqing Yang, Three Gorges University: “ A Mirror----A Brief discussion of the
comparison Eastern and Western cultures in The Enchantress of Florence”
13:30-14:50: Concurrent Session One C
Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence
Zijingang East 6, Room 223
Chair: Ningkang Jiang, Nanjing University
1. Wenming Zong, University of Architecture and Scientific Technology of Xi’an:
“An Interpretation of Loneliness in Metamorphosis and Lunyu”
2. Yan Liu, Beijing International Studies University: “The Oriental Imagination and
Identity Construction in Ulysses”
3. Hong Jiang, Beijing Normal University: “D. H. Lawrence and the Russian
Novelists: An Intellectual Confrontation”
13:30-14:50: Concurrent Session One D
Whalen, Malamud, Kingston
Zijingang East 6, Room 224
Chair: Hong Chen, China Jiliang University
1. Yujiao Jiang, Zhejiang Normal University: “Phillip Whalen and the Orient”
2. Jianqiang Wang, Guangdong University of Finance: “On the Forbearance in the
Short Stories by Malamud”
3. Dongqing Tian, Taishan Medical College: “From Heritage to Innovation: On
Maxine Hong Kingston’s Handling of Traditional Chinese Resources in The
Woman Warrior”
13:30-14:50: Concurrent Session One E
East and West in the Unity of Culture
Zijingang East 6, Room 225
Chair: Antony Lopez, University of Plymouth, UK
1. David Ewick, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University: "Chasing After ‘Hokku’:
The Critical Misreading of Japanese Form in European Literary Modernism"
3. Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University: “Yeats’ Transnational Poetics of Othering
Beyond Modernism: Doubling East and West in the Unity of Culture”
14:50-16:10: Concurrent Session Two A
Oriental and Occidental Works
Zijingang East 6, Room 221
Chair: Yujiao Jiang, Zhejiang Normal University
1. Xiaofei Wei, Shanghai Jiaotong University: “Achilles’ Heel in Modernism:
Comparing Snail Shell and “The Strength of God’”
2. Qinghong Wu, Jiangsu University: “A Comparative Study of “The Death of the
Moth” and Chuang-Tzu’s “Dream of a Butterfly”
3. Wei Guo，Nanjing University ：On the Evolution of the Style of Metaphor in Taiwanese
Modernist Poetry
4. Jiaqing Yang, Three Gorges University: “A Brief Comparison of Eastern and
Western Cultures in The Enchantress of Florence”
14:50-16:10: Concurrent Session Two B
East/West: a Post-Apocalyptic World
Zijingang East 6, Room 222
Chair: Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
1. Zhiming Hu, Shandong University at Weihai: “On the Intertextual Characteristics
of Kenzaburo Oe’s Literary Creation”
2. Chen Su, Zhejiang University: “Politics of Polyphony in McEwan’s Black Dogs”
3. Huibin He, Zhejiang University: “Yuan Kejia’s Modernist Literature Studies in
the 60’s of the Last Century”
14:50-16:10: Concurrent Session Two C
China/India in Western Works
Zijingang East 6, Room 223
Chair: Yan Liu, Beijing International Studies University
1. Fang Du, Dalian University of Technology: “Western Modernist Poetry and the
Poetics of China”
2. Fatemeh Gholipour, University of Malaya: “Colonization in Cinema: Indianising
Pride and Prejudice”
3. Lizhen Chen, Jiangxi Normal University: “Before the Modern Age: the Female
and the Oriental in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford”
4. Kexiang Tai, Xi’an Technological University: “The Chinese Imagination of
Jorges Luis Borges”
14:50-16:10: Concurrent Session Two D
Bridges Between East and West
Zijingang East 6, Room 224
Chair: Shanke Cao, Guangdong University of Business Studies
1. Juan Fan and Zhaowen Chu, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology:
“William Faulkner and Jia Pingwa in the Context of China’s Culture
Communication to the West”
2. Chunfang Liu, Shandong Institute of Business and Technology: “Big Sur and
Oriental Culture”
3. Fasheng Peng, Zhejiang University: “Writings Reverse: Cognition and Poetics”
14:50-16:10: Concurrent Session Two E
An Oriental Reading of Western Modernism
Zijingang East 6, Room 225
Chair: Jun Guo, Renmin University of China
1. Guilian Hao, Yunnan Normal University: “A Zen Reading of ‘Silence’”
2. Wei Wei, Shanghai Normal University: “Taoist Philosophy in East of Eden”
3. Zihang Cong, Zhejiang Shuren University: “Post-Beat Poets of Multicultural
Perspectives – Study of Jack Foley”
16:10-16:20: Coffee Break
16:20-17:40: Concurrent Session Three A
China’s Imports from and Exports to Modernism Zijingang East 6, Room 221
Chair: Hong Jiang, Beijing Normal University
1. Ningkang Jiang, Nanjing University: “Modernism and Consumer Culture in
Chinese Metropolitan Cities”
2. Hongsheng Sui, Zhejiang University: “Several Inspirations from
‘Defamiliarization’ upon the Study of China’s Mass Culture”
3. Yanbao Tan, Wuhan Textile University: “Modernity and Antimodernity of the
Border Town”
16:20-17:40: Concurrent Session Three B
Dickinson, Conrad, Salinger
Zijingang East 6, Room 222
Chair: Fan Fang, Zhejiang University
1. Yanbin Kang, Guilin University of Electronic Technology: “Dickinson’s Orient”
2. Weiqi Pang, Jiangsu University: “Buddhist Awareness in Conrad’s Fiction”
3. Xiang Meng, Shanxi Normal University: “Salinger’s ‘Life Transcendence’ and
China’s Zen Buddhism/Taoism”
16:20-17:40: Concurrent Session Three C
Moore, Stevens and China
Zijingang East 6, Room 223
Chair: Youngmin Kim，Dongguk University
1. Jing Liang, Henan University of Science and Technology: “The Tao in Marianne
Moore”
2. Xiying Jiang, Zhejiang University: “The Marriage of Marianne Moore to The Tao
of Chinese Painting”
3. Anne Luyat, Universite d’Avignon: “Chinese Art and Modernism: The
Meditation of Wallace Stevens on Nothing”
16:20-17:40: Concurrent Session Three D
Pound’s Chinese Translations
Zijingang East 6, Room 224
Chair: Xiaomei Shu, Communication University of China
1. Qiaodan Lu and Zhenyuan Qu, Zhejiang University: “Image Creation: The
Choice Between Domestic and Foreign in Pound’s Translation of Li Bai”
2. Beifeng Ni, Guangdong Teachers’ College of Foreign Languages and Arts:
“Another Type of Fidelity: In Pound’s Defense”
3. James McDougall, American University of Kuwait: “Representing Inscription:
Recovering the Lost Sign of Cathay”
16:20-17:40: Concurrent Session Three E
A Comparison between East and West
Zijingang East 6, Room 225
Chair: Weiwen He, Shanghai Jiaotong University
1. Jun Guo, Renmin University of China: “Walter Benjamin’s Eco-Ethical
Version of Genesis and the Chinese Holistic idea of Nature-Man Unity”
2. Haiyan Yang, Dalian Vocational & Technical College: “A Chinese-Western
Cultural Look at the Consciousness of Wilderness from an Eco-critical
Perspective”
3. Bo En, Texas Tech University Dept. of English: “The Signature of All Things:
Kenneth Rexroth’s Oriental Imagination”
4. 哈斯其木格, Chi Feng University of Inner Mongolia: “Formulaic syntax
research of Jianggeer and Homer epic poems”
17:40: Buses to Wangzi (Prince) Restaurant
18:00-19:15: Banquet
Wangzi (Prince) Restaurant
19:15-19:30: Buses to Zijingang Linshui Hall
19:30-21:30: Special Event: East/West: Chamber Music and Chamber Conversation
Zijingang Linshui Hall
Mediators: Daniel Albright and Lidan Lin
1. Han Qin, piano solo: “Twelve Tones Descending into Winter,” music by
John Austin
2. John Austin: “At Yellow Crane Tower” for soprano and cello, text by Li Bai
(recording) ; "Translations, Three Chinese Poems, for violin and
piano (recording); if time permits, repeat of "Twelve Tones Descending into
Winter," played by John Austin
3. Wei Zhao and Shuyue Miao, 2-stringed fiddle & cymbal duet: “Jasmine”
4. Nan Nan, guzheng solo: “Evening Song from a Fishing Boat”
5. Leirui Zhu and Jing Xu, Yue opera duet, from “Liang & Zhu”
21:30-22:00: Buses from Zijingang back to Santai Hotel
Sunday, 6 June
8:00-9:20: Concurrent Session Four A
Stein and Eliot
Santai Jingui Room
Chair: Stuart Christie，Hong Kong Baptist University
1. Xiaomei Shu，Communication University of China：“Stein and Zen”
2. Meimin Li, Jiangxi Normal University: “T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Indian Thought”
3. Mary Bamburg, University of New Orleans: “Buddhist Tiresias: Eastern and
Western Religions in Eliot’s Waste Land”
8:00-9:20: Concurrent Session Four B
Between Oriental Culture and Western Modernism
Santai Yingui Room
Chair: Christian Kloeckner, University of Bonne
1. Hong Chen, China Jiliang University: “The Image of ‘Chinaman’ in Effi Briest”
2. Casey Walker, Princeton University: “ ‘The Maze of this Oriental City’: Marcel
Proust, Italo Calvino, and the Invisible City”
9:20-10:40: Concurrent Session Five A
Pound and Confucian Ethics
Santai Jingui Room
Chair: Christine Froula, Northwestern University
1. Anne Conover Carson, Independent Scholar: “Ezra Pound, Confucius, and the
Fenollosa Notebooks: ‘The Very Real Principle of Modernism’” (Xuexia Liang)
2. Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University: “An Idea of Order in the Confucian
Ethics: The Father-Son Relationship in Pound’s ‘Chinese History Cantos’”
3. Wendy Stallard Flory, Purdue University: “Confucian Ethics, Pound’s
Modernism, and China’s New Confucianism”
9:20-10:40: Concurrent Session Five B
Emerson, Franklin, and the East
Santai Yingui Room
Chair：Guilian Hao，Yunnan Normal University
1. Ismail Salami, University of Malaya: “Persian Influence on Emerson and
Transcendentalism”
2. Yun Long, Beijing International Studies University: “Emerson’s Oriental
Philosophy: A Bridge of Understanding Modern American Literature”
3. Yihua Zhang, Zhejiang University of Technology: “Chinese Sources in Franklin’s
13 Virtues”
9:20-10:40: Concurrent Session Five C
Deception and Recognition
Santai Dangui Room
Chair: James McDougall, American University of Kuwait
1. Antony Lopez, University of Plymouth: “The Orient in Later Modernist English
Poetry”
2. Leihua Weng and James Whelan, University of South Carolina: “Indeterminacy
of Meaning, Post-Structuralism, and Taoism”
3. Jinghui Zhang, Henan University: “Transformation: Creating by Fusing Different
Elements or Origins & Artistic Creation----On the Mode of Artistic Creation by
Observing from King Lear to Ran
10:40-10:50: Coffee Break
10:50-12:10: Concurrent Session Six A
Buddhism/Confucianism in American Poetry
Santai Jingui Room
Chair: Wendy Stallard Flory, Purdue University
1. Richard Parker, University of Sussex: “Louis Zukofsky’s American Zen”
2. Dorsey Kleitz, Tokyo Women’s Christian University: “ ‘How We Go On’:
Pound’s Confucius and Snyder’s ‘Axe Handles’”
3. Shaoqiu Deng, Hunan First Normal University: “The Influence of Zen Buddhist
Culture on Modern American Poetry”
10:50-12:10: Concurrent Session Six B
Emergence of Eastern Cold War Politics
Santai Yingui Room
Chair: David Ewick, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
1. Stuart Christie, Hong Kong Baptist University: “Reading the ‘Gap’ in the Chinese
Gorge: De-Centering the American Bildung in John Hersey’s A Single Pebble”
2. Hiromi Ochi, Hitotsubashi University: “Edward Seidensticker as a Cold War
Orientalist and his Fashioning of Kawabata Yasunari”
3. Yanping Sun, Zhejiang University: “Searching for Moral Import at the
Intersection of the Gate of Ivory and the Gate of Horn: Review of Margaret
Drabble’s The Gates of Ivory
10:50-12:10: Concurrent Session Six C
Recognizing Eastern Selves in Modernism
Santai Dangui Room
Chair: Anne Luyat, Universite d’Avignon
1. Lidan Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne: “The Global
Ethics of Inclusion: China in the Imagination of Beckett and Lacan”
2. Christian Kloeckner, University of Bonne “Re-Orienting Impersonality:
Modernism’s Others and Far Eastern Selves”
3. Ciaran Murray, Chuo University：”Spaces of the Southern Song: Whistler to
Hemingway” （Guoliang Guo）
12:10-13:10: Buffet Lunch
Santai Hotel Restaurant
13:40-15:20: Plenary Session Three
Tianlang Ball Room
Proust, Joyce, and Woolf
Chair: Ronald Bush, Oxford University
1. Christine Froula, Northwestern University: “’Proust’s Orient”
2. Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia: “The Modernist Page: Joyce,
Graphic Design and Chinese Writing”
3. Fen Gao, Zhejiang University: “Virginia Woolf’s ‘Truth’ and ‘Zhenhuan’ in
Chinese Poetics”
15:20-15:30: Coffee Break
15:30-16:40: Plenary Session Four
Tianlang Ball Room
China in Modernism/Modernism in China
Chair: Helong Zhang, Shanghai International Studies University
1. Qiping Yin, Hangzhou Normal University: “Where Is the West-running
Brook Flowing----Robert Frost in the Taoist Perspective”
2. Jiande Lu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “China’s New Cultural
Movement and Home-Made Orientalism”
16:40-17:40 Closing Session
Tianlang Ball Room
Chair: Zhaoming Qian, University of New Orleans
Jieping Fan and Fen Gao: Closing remarks, thanks, details about tour
of Hefang Street and visit to Linying Temple
18:00-19:00: Dinner
Santai Hotel Restaurant
19:30-21:30: Buses from Santai Hotel to Hefang Street (a renovated Song-dynasty
street) for a Walking Tour
Monday, 7 June
8:45--9:00:
Buses to Lingyin Temple (a Buddhist temple of the Chan sect founded
in 326 AD) for a guided visit
11:30-12:30: Buffet Lunch in Lingyin Temple
12:30-13:00: Buses back to Santai Hotel