China Seminar

February 22, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Moore 155A Add to Calendar

12:00 p.m., Mon, 2/22

Yomi Braester: “The Last Refuge: Chinese and Jewish Refugees in Wartime Shanghai.” In Moore Hall 155A.

Refugees from inside and outside China flocked to Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s. They were driven by poverty and war to any safe haven they could find. But they also imagined Shanghai in particular as a very special place, an exotic mix of foreign and domestic spectacles. The cinema had a special role in creating Shanghai’s aura; surprisingly, movies about Jewish refugees underlie many of the better-known images.

Yomi Braester is Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media at the University of Washington in Seattle. He holds degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Yale University. He has published extensively on modern Chinese literature, film, and visual culture. His current project, Cinephilia Besieged: Viewing Communities and the Ethics of the Image in the People’s Republic of China, is supported by a Guggenheim fellowship.


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