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October 04, 2011
Fall 2011 CCS Noon Lecture Series - Linda Rui Feng
Linda Rui Feng, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Youth, or Something like It: Perceptions of Thresholds in Tang Narratives
October 11, 2011
Tuesday 12 noon to 1:00 pm
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
1080 South University
How was coming-of-age understood, imagined, and ultimately represented for the literati elite in Tang China? What constituted the threshold experiences that separated men from boys, and what crises might they evoke? Focusing on narratives from the ninth century, this talk will explore the changing perception of personhood as it relates to these pivotal life intervals.
Linda Rui Feng is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, where she works on research topics that span both cultural history and literature in Tang China. Her book manuscript is tentatively titled “Youthful Displacement: City, Travel and Narrative Formation in Tang Tales.”
Posted by zzhu at October 4, 2011 05:05 PM