Public Lecture - Prof. Xuelei Huang: “Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell”
How did past environments, objects, and people smell? What can aromas and stenches tell about history and culture? In this lecture, Huang Xuelei introduces her forthcoming book, Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell (Cambridge University Press, October 2023). Drawing on unexplored archival materials, the book documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in China was experienced through the body and the senses.
Speaker:
Xuelei Huang is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Chinese Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She received PhD from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Her research interests include sensory history, early cinema, and print culture of late Qing and Republican China. She is the author of Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938 (2014), co-editor of Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture (2022).
Date: 2 May 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum, East Wing, CUHK
Language: English.
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