A Dispassionate Logic in Contemporary Chinese Art and Cinema: Globalization, Nationalism, and Post-Socialist Trauma

This talk gives a general outlook on contemporary Chinese art and cinema that has attracted a critical attention from both Chinese and Western scholars in the past decade (1995-2005). As China is rising as a new economic power in Asia, the work of so-called Chinese “avant-garde” artists and filmmakers needs to be examined in the … Read more

Globalization and Gender in India

This presentation is set against the backdrop of neo-liberal policies of economic reform instituted in India in 1991.  I examine the decade of the 1990s as a period of dramatic change from prior decades of Independent India.  I suggest that with the opening of the Indian economy in conjunction with the privatization of television the … Read more