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LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2014 Dr. Bert Scruggs, an expert in modern Taiwanese literature and film, concludes this year\u2019s Creative Intelligence lecture series with \u201cRusticated Memories and Consuming Environments: Zhiqing Fiction and Film,\u201d an examination of the effects of China\u2019s Cultural Revolution.\n<\/p>\n

\nScruggs, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literature at the University of California, Irvine, will speak Thursday, May 8, at 4:15 p.m. in the Cowgill Center, room 102, on Transylvania University\u2019s campus. The talk is free and open to the public.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"Cultural<\/p>\n

\nBeginning in the 1950s, and until the end of the Cultural Revolution, educated youth in the People\u2019s Republic of China willingly, or under coercion, left the densely populated urban areas and moved to the countryside where they worked as farmers or manual laborers as part of their revolutionary education.\n<\/p>\n

\nDespite having been \u201csent-down youth\u201d or \u201crusticated\u201d over 30 years ago, memories of rustication continue to garner critical and artistic attention, as evidenced in contemporary Chinese literature and film.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cDue to the massive nature of the rustication program\u201417 million people\u2014few lives or families in contemporary China have not been directly influenced by the program that sent a generation to the hinterlands to educate, re-educate, reclaim and tend to the land,\u201d explains Scruggs.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"BookFor his presentation, Scruggs compares Liang Xiaosheng\u2019s 2009 short story \u201cA Land of Wonder and Mystery,\u201d a rusticated-youth narrative, to Sean Penn\u2019s film adaptation of Jon Krakauer\u2019s book \u201cInto the Wild,\u201d among other texts. He posits that deep memories of rustication offer great potential for cultural and critical studies, as well as literature, film and media studies within and beyond East Asian studies.\n<\/p>\n

\nScruggs was invited to speak by Qian Gao<\/a>, assistant professor of Chinese language and culture at Transylvania, because of their shared interest in the literary study of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and its aftermath and reinventions.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe Chinese Cultural Revolution has influenced a great number of Chinese literary texts and films for decades, even until today,\u201d says Gao, \u201cDr. Scruggs has done extensive research and has published widely on literature about the Cultural Revolution, especially on rusticated youth experience during the Cultural Revolution.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Creative Intelligence Series was started three years ago as a way to offer lectures, art exhibitions, performances and presentations by young academics whose work has had an exceptional influence on their disciplines.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cPresenters are asked to talk about the process of their work, not just the products of it,\u201d said Meg Upchurch<\/a>, psychology professor and series coordinator. \u201cA goal of the series is to help students become aware that creative, engaged problem solving can occur in a variety of disciplines and contexts.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Cowgill Center<\/a> is on Third Street just east of Old Morrison. Free parking<\/a> is available in the lot adjacent to the Mitchell Fine Arts Center at the corner of Fourth and Upper Streets and in several other lots along North Upper. For more details about the Creative Intelligence Series, contact Upchurch at mupchurch@transy.edu<\/a> or 859-233-8252.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2014 Dr. Bert Scruggs, an expert in modern Taiwanese literature and film, concludes this year\u2019s Creative Intelligence lecture series with \u201cRusticated Memories and Consuming Environments: Zhiqing Fiction and Film,\u201d an examination of the effects of China\u2019s Cultural Revolution. Scruggs, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literature at the University of California, Irvine, will speak Thursday, May 8, at 4:15 p.m. in the Cowgill Center, room 102, on Transylvania University\u2019s campus. The talk is free and open to the public. Beginning in the 1950s, and until the end of the Cultural Revolution, educated youth in the People\u2019s Republic of China willingly, or under coercion, left the densely populated urban areas and moved to the countryside where they worked as farmers or manual laborers as part of their revolutionary education. Despite having been \u201csent-down youth\u201d or \u201crusticated\u201d over 30 years ago, memories of rustication continue to garner critical and artistic attention, as evidenced in contemporary Chinese literature and film. \u201cDue to the massive nature of the rustication program\u201417 million people\u2014few lives or families in contemporary China have not been directly influenced by the program that sent a generation to the hinterlands to educate, re-educate, reclaim and tend to the land,\u201d explains Scruggs. For his presentation, Scruggs compares Liang Xiaosheng\u2019s 2009 short story \u201cA Land of Wonder and Mystery,\u201d a rusticated-youth narrative, to Sean Penn\u2019s film adaptation of Jon Krakauer\u2019s book \u201cInto the Wild,\u201d among other texts. He posits that<\/p>\n

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