Classicism in Digital Times: Cultural Remembrance as Reimagination in the Sinophone Cyberspace

ZHIYI YANG is professor of Sinology at University of Frankfurt. Her research investigates how Chinese classical lyric traditions engage with aesthetics (of nature and art) and with ethics (of private and public life). She is the author of Dialectics of Spontaneity: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Su Shi (1037–1101) in Poetry (2015) and Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times (2023). She is currently writing a monograph on avant-garde classicist poetry in the Sinophone cyberspace and collaborating with scholars on an interdisciplinary project of global Sinophone classicisms.

David Der-Wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature, Harvard University. He is director of CCK Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, Academician of Academia Sinica and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Wang's specialties are modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature, Late Qing fiction, and comparative literary theory. His recent publications include The Monster That Is History (2004), Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule (coedited with Ping-hui Liao, 2007), The Lyrical in Epic Time (2014), and Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China (2020). He is editor of A New Literary History of Modern China (2017), published by Harvard University Press.