eileen chengyin chow

@chowleen

film, lit, anime, fandoms, politics, chinatowns. prof, co-director. Dir. of Shewo Inst of Chinese Journalism. board. 周成蔭

Duke Story Lab/舍我紀念館
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2008.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. “Resting dejected on the Capitol steps, Lisa has a conversion experience: in front of her very eyes, [pols] in their white collar suits turn into pigs..that gorge themselves at troughs overbrimming with cartoon dollar bills,and then wipe their mouths on the flag.” -Lauren Berlant

  2. This week: 余華 「第七天」 —and a history of the ‘news novel’ 新聞小說 and daily news 社會新聞; affectlessness and language, the ethics of the afterlife from Dante to The Good Place, Agamben’s bare life [photo: English pub cover of Yu Hua ‘The Seventh Day’ trans. by Allan Barr]

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  3. My undergrads did not disappoint - such a good discussion of PARASITE today, beginning with the gift of the scholar’s rock and how it turned out to be hollow - We ranged over Freud’s The Uncanny, climate disasters, postwar Korean edu system & class passing, minjok, Taiwan cakes

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  4. 5. velj

    earliest spring.

  5. 4. velj

    As a result of growing up in Hankou in Wuhan, LY Chow became deeply enmeshed with and fascinated by the larger world — before he went to study international relations and political science at Yenching U (now Beida), and long before he made it his lifelong scholarly discipline.

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  6. 4. velj

    My stepfather grew up in the French concession in the cosmopolitan port city of Hankow 漢口. His father and grandfather were both engineers, and the Chow family played a critical role in the construction of the Beijing-Hankow Railway. [19thc British map of trading routes]

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  7. 3. velj

    Oddly - was down for the count today bedridden and reading George Steiner when I saw the news. “A book unwritten is more than a void...It is one of the lives we could have lived, one of the journeys we did not take. Which might have allowed one to fail better. Or perhaps not.”

  8. 3. velj

    It’s fun to see the anime nerd who wrote a fine paper on Satoshi Kon’s PAPRIKA playing in the - Go !

  9. 2. velj

    Peter Serkin (1947-2020)plays Takemitsu Toru’s ‘Rain Tree Sketch.’ safe travels —

  10. 1. velj

    Rewatching this masterpiece in preparation: The Housemaid 하녀 (Kim Ki-young dir., 1960)

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  11. 1. velj

    I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

  12. 31. sij

    Smuggled Prussian blue from Europe (There was a Tokugawa trade embargo) for the way light looked on plums. ___ List of colors to ban from future kingdoms: (Make list here.) (Terre verte, alizarin.) -Robert Hass, "Nature Notes in the Morning"

  13. 30. sij

    Teaching next week - yesssss

  14. 29. sij

    字在如晤 見字見心 thank you for such a lovely gift!

  15. 29. sij

    Today’s grad seminar topics: utopias, dystopias, Peach Blossom Spring, narrative cruelty, and Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism - and Yan Lianke’s

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  16. 26. sij
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    A bit of filial-shaming as PSA (And yes, all my elderly family in various places have all bunkered down at home and not having New Years gatherings)

  17. 25. sij

    ‘You shall love your crooked neighbour/ With your crooked heart’ Happy , all - may the good ones stay and the rest scurry away

  18. 25. sij

    祝 鼠年 平平安安 如如意意

  19. 24. sij
  20. 23. sij

    Happy 🐭Rat Year all - on this New Year’s Eve eve Apotheosis of this meme reached: Gongxi facai! vs. Gong hay fat choy! (This has made the rounds but the artist @tikkafromeast was uncredited)

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