AMES Colloquium: "Friendship and Affective Relationality in Early Modern Chinese Vernacular Literature"

How does one understand the desire to die for a friend? What happens when heroic ideals meet the everyday give-and-take of friendship? What is it like when reading a story feels like reading with a friend by your side? This talk, centering on friendship in early modern Chinese vernacular literature, uses insights from the history of emotions and affect theory to explore these questions in the moral, social, and literary context of early modern China.

Kuan Liu is a PhD graduate student in Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures & Media at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 

This talk is in-person.