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2005-2006 Fellows

Wendy Larson

University of Oregon
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Wendy Larson is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon.  Her research includes Women and Writing in Modern China (Stanford, 1998), and the co-edited Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

Project Summary

Through interpretation of post-Mao fiction and film on the Cultural Revolution, Rewriting the Red: Sexuality and the Cultural Revolution in Contemporary Chinese Culture investigates the transition from the revolutionary to the sexualized character. Central to this project is the historically developed concept of revolutionary jingshen (spirit), and its relationship to the centering of sexuality promoted by Freud and Chinese intellectuals in the early twentieth century.