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DESCRIPTION:Brian Bernards is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Specializing in Sinophone and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, he is author of Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian  \nPostcolonial Literature (2015) and co-editor of Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (2013). His journal articles have appeared in positions: asia critique, Asian Cinema, Postcolonial Studies, inter-Asian cinema and  the other on translingual Sinophone flash fiction and short  film in Southeast Asia.\nProf. E.K. Tan ??? will speak on “Conciliatory  Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur  Writer Padi Guli’s A Hundred Years of Bloodline (2015),” which tells the story of Fatima, a Uyghur woman’s journey to unpack  her family history while struggling to understand the status of  ethnic minorities in the larger fabric of multi-ethnic China.  The novel concludes with a positive message calling for ethnic  integration. Tan reads the novel against the PRC’s ethnic  minority policy to examine the implications of the protagonist’s cultural, linguist, and geopolitical border-crossing  as she comes to terms with ethnic amalgamation as a necessary  
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Sinophone Literary Articulations Across the Borderlands 
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