Date: 14 May 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
The Pleasure and Pain of Eating and Abjection in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Jiachen Zhang (Fudan University)
“What does an American look like?”: Negotiating Belonging in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown (2020)
Valentina López Liendo (University of Heidelberg)
How Magic Tells Reality: An Unnatural Wingbeat into Remembrance in Emily X.R. Pan’s The Astonishing Colour of After (2018)
Shuyue Liu (University of Nottingham)
Discussant
Timothy K. August (Stony Brook University)
Host
Yizhou Feng (University of Exeter)
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Date: 28 May 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Governing Heritage by Genre: The Silk Roads and Quanzhou
Jieyi Xie (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)
Heritage as “Common Recognition”: The Expansion of Macanese Food Heritage Lists and the Disappearance of Local Subjectivities
Chang Xu (Sun Yat-sen University, Heidelberg University)
Host
Yining Fu (University of Exeter)
Date: 11 June 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Two Images of China in the 1960s: Eileen Chang and the Politics of Translation in the USIS “Heritage Press”
Rachel Yifei Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
The localisation strategies of Chinese streaming services outside the mainland: using a walkthrough method to examine iQIYI and WeTV applications
Xiao Yang (University of Macau)
Anubha Sarkar (University of London)
Drone Visual Culture and the Reshaping of Global Technology Narratives: A Visual Power Analysis with China as Reference
Jiujian Zeng (Loughborough University)
Techno-Spiritual Encounters: When ChatGPT Refuses to Read Fengshui
Yuan Zhang (University of Oxford)
Host
Yizhou Feng (University of Exeter)