Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China
In Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes. Developing multiple ways for articulating their understanding of copyright, Chinese authors, booksellers, and publishers played a crucial role in its growth and eventual institutionalization in China.
On Friday January 21, 2022, please join the online book talk hosted by UBC’s Centre for Chinese Research. The event will feature discussions with Dr. Fei-Hsien Wang on her newly published book— Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China. The book is available for orders here.
Dr. Wang will give a book talk on the history of copyright, and how it was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern China. She will be joined by discussants Jiaqi Yao and Haoyue Li, both PhD Candidates at the UBC Department of Asian Studies. This talk will also be moderated by Dr. Renren Yang, from UBC’s Department of Asian Studies.
Date & Time
January 21, from 4:30PM to 5:30PM [PST]
January 21, from 6:30PM to 7:30PM [CST]
January 21, from 7:30PM to 8:30PM [EST]
“Location”
The event will be hosted via Zoom. Registration can be found here. Participants will receive a link to access the event 24 hours prior to the event via email. Registration is required.
*If you do not receive the event link 24 hours prior to the event, please email Matthew Putman at matthew.putman@ubc.ca.
Registration Required on zoom: shorturl.at/swHI9.
Featured speaker bio:
Dr. Fei-Hsien Wang: Dr. Fei-Hsien Wang is a historian of modern China at the University of Indiana Bloomington. She holds a particular interest in how information, ideas, and practices were produced, transmitted, and consumed across different societies in East Asia. Her research has revolved around the relations between knowledge, commerce, and political authority after 1800.
Moderator bio:
Dr. Renren Yang: Dr. Renren Yang is an Assistant Professor on Modern Chinese Popular Culture at University of British Columbia’s Department of Asian Studies. His research and teaching span twentieth-and twenty-first-century Chinese literature, cinema, and popular culture, with a focus on issues of authorship, mediation, and hybrid genres in Chinese literary and media scenes.
Discussant bios:
Jiaqi Yao: Jiaqi Yao is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Asian Studies. Her primary research interests lie in modern Chinese literature and culture, including studies of popular magazines, urban literature, and theatre in the Republican era.
Haoyue Li: Haoyue Li is a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Asian Studies. Her studies situate the records of smells into a broader framework of literary studies and sensory studies, connoisseurship culture and material culture, and the study of medical epistemology and technological history.
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