The Story of the Stone and The Tale of Genji
in Modern China and Japan:
Issues in Media, Technology, Gender, and National Identity
Friday, November 19th
8:45am-9:30am Breakfast
9:30am-11am
Panel 1: Issues and Perspectives in the Reception and Reproduction of The Tale of Genji and The Story of the Stone
Chair and Discussant: Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia
Presenters: Haruo Shirane, Columbia University
The Tale of Genji Reception in Comparative Perspective
Shang Wei, Columbia University
The Stone Phenomenon and its Transformation
11am-11:15am: Coffee Break
11:15am-12:45pm
Panel 2: Global Reception
Chair and Discussant: Patrick Caddeau, Princeton University
Presenters: Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University
The Tale of Genji in relationship to Chinese vernacular fiction and the Western novel
Michael Emmerich, University of California, Santa Barbara
Genji Goes Global: History, Materiality, Mass Media
12:45pm-2pm: Lunch
1:15pm-1:45pm: Lunch Talk
Charo D'Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Stone-Genji Syllabi
2 pm-3:30pm
Panel 3: Gender, Cultural Identity and Education (1)
Chair and Discussant: Lewis Cook, Queens College
Presenters: Satoko Naito, University of Maryland
The Tale of Genji as retsujoden (biographies of exemplary women): Images of Murasaki Shikibu in 18th Century Instructional Texts for Women
Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College
How Well Did Lin Daiyu Know Honglou meng?--Some Perspectives From Japan
3:30pm-4pm: Coffee Break
4pm-5:30pm
Panel 4: Gender, Cultural Identity and Education (2)
Chair and Discussant: Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Presenters: Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia
Prequels, Sequels, and Self-Narratives: The Tale of Genji in Women’s Memoirs
Keith McMahon, University of Kansas
Two Jia Baoyus and Perversion
Saturday, November 20th
8:45am-9:30am Breakfast
9:30am-11am
Panel 5: From Theater to Film (1)
Chair and Discussant: Martin Woesler, Harvard University
Presenters: Satoko Shimazaki, University of Colorado, Boulder
Strange Encounters: Performing Genji on the Kabuki Stage
Ling Hon Lam, Vanderbilt University
Stone’s New Clothes: Re-visioning the Origins in Modern-Costume “Red Chamber” Films and Photoplay Novels
11am-11:15am: Coffee Break
11:15am-12:45pm
Panel 6: From Theater to Film (2)
Chair and Discussant: Weihong Bao, Columbia University
Presenters: Judith Zeitlin, University of Chicago
The Death of Lin Daiyu in Opera, Spoken Drama, and Film from Late Qing to the Cultural Revolution
Sophie Volpp, University of California, Berkeley
Mind Wandering: Honglou meng's Dramatic Sequels
12:45pm-2pm: Lunch
2pm-3:30pm
Panel 7: Visual Culture: Pre-modern to Modern (1)
Discussant: Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia
Presenters: Kimberly Besio, Colby College
Baochai Chasing Butterflies: Visual Culture in Honglou meng, (Reception of) Honglou meng in Visual Culture
Sarah Thompson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Poetry, Incense, Card Games, and Pictorial Narrative Coding in Early Modern Genji Pictures
3:30pm-4pm: Coffee break
4pmm-5:30pm
Panel 8: Visual Culture: Pre-modern to Modern (2)
Chair and Discussant: Jonathan Hay, New York University
Presenters: Melissa McCormick, Harvard University
Reading Pictures: Genji Pictures in the Age of Illustrated Fiction
I-Hsien Wu, The City College of New York
Portraits of a Lady: Lin Daiyu’s Makeover in Honglou meng Pictures
