Chinese youth under Socialism from Mao to Xi

Venue: BUC - Biblioteca Universitaria Centrale, via Adalberto Libera 3, Trento

Thursday 3 October

14.30-15.00 Welcome address and Opening remarks

SESSION 1 – Youth and history

Chair: Guido Samarani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Discussant: Elisa Giunipero (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan)

15.00-16.00

• Margaret Mih Tillman (Purdue University) - Youth education under Chinese socialism: the First Child Welfare Institute of Yan’an 
• Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Vienna) - The youth of my parents with Mao: A transgenerational perspective on hidden loyalties and unquestioned phantasies

16.00-16-30 Coffee break

16.30-18.00

• Laura De Giorgi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) – China's revolutionary youth in foreign eyes, 1949-1959
• Sofia Graziani (University of Trento) – The role of youth and youth groups in China’s people’s diplomacy and global outreach: a historical perspective
• Zhou Zhan’an (Shanghai University) – Dialectics of Subject and Object: The main line and four stages of Chinese intellectual history in Mao Zedong's era

18.00-18.30 Discussion

20.00 Dinner

Friday 4 October 

SESSION 2 – Literature and youth cultures

8.30-10.00
Chair: Adalgisa Mingati (University of Trento)
Discussant: Marco Fumian (University of Naples L’Orientale)

• Yang Weijian (Shanghai University) - Dai Houying's Writing of Youth History
• Li Haixia (Shanghai University) - From redistributing land to reclaiming the landscapes: The global vision in Chinese literature in 1960s
• Wang Yanyun (Shanghai University) - The lingering moments and the decisions in history: The cultural significances of the images for small towns and the township Youth in Jia Zhangke’s Movies

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.30
Chair: Giulia Sciorati (University of Trento)
Discussant: Yang Weijian (Shanghai University)

• Jeroen De Kloet (Amsterdam University) - Cultured Youth: Hipsters with Chinese characteristics?
• Serena Zuccheri (University of Bologna) - A Research on Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Chinese Fansub Phenomenon: The Italian TV series Gomorra and its Chinese Non-Professional Fansub version as a Case Study

11.30-12.30 Discussion and concluding remarks.

Scientific Committee: 

• Laura De Giorgi 
• Sofia Graziani 
• Yang Weijian 

Organization:

Centro Studi Martino Martini, University of Trento

With the participation of: CEASUM - Department of Humanities