How has the Internet changed the ways Chinese people experience and reflect on their world? How do Chinese men and women perceive the extraordinary social and cultural transformations of 21th-century China? What are their dreams, desires, fears, hopes and nightmares behind the façades of skyscrapers and neon lights? Through studies ranging from Ming/Qing vernacular fictional narratives, women's writings, and courtesan poetry in late imperial China, to body writing, best sellers, banned books and blogs in post-Deng China, Professor Daria Berg's research seeks to inform the present by showing how cultural practices and social norms have evolved in China. Her research develops approaches from modern literary theory and cultural studies to examine Chinese literature, print culture, and gender, providing new insights into how China's citizens experience the current revolution in the cultural arena.
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Academic invitations received and contributions to seminars and conferences
2022
- Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Chinese Dreams and Nightmares: The Genealogy of Utopia and Anti-Utopia in China’s Mediasphere” at the Genealogies of Literary Form in Contemporary China Conference, Università Orientale di Napoli, June 22-23 2022.
- Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Celebrity in Post-Socialist China as Transmedia Storytelling”. China-US Surge Spring Symposium, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, 15 April 2022.
- Berg, Daria & Mirra, Federica. “The Chinese Dream and its nightmares: perspectives from visual arts” at the 2022 Nordic NIAS Council Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22-24 August 2022.
- Berg, Daria & Mirra, Federica. “Visual narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative in western China” at the 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 24-27 August 2022.
2021
- Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’”. Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS). Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. 26 November 2021.
- Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’”. Conference “The technological Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Literature”. The University of Zurich, Switzerland, 22 January 2021.
- Berg, Daria. „Chinas neue Stars im Spannungsfeld von Kultur, Konsum und Kommunismus“. 8. Bergakademie der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Appenberg, Schweiz. 3 Oktober 2021.
- Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “The Avant-Garde in Post-Socialist China, 1978-2018: The Art of Transculturality”. 12th International Convention Of Asia Scholars ICAS 12. Kyoto, Japan, 28 August 2021.
- Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’”. 12th International Convention Of Asia Scholars ICAS 12. Kyoto, Japan, 26 August 2021.
- Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Celebrity in Post-Socialist China as Transmedia Storytelling”. 12th International Convention Of Asia Scholars ICAS 12. Kyoto, Japan, 25 August 2021.
- Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “China’s New Media Superstars.” 23nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. University of Leipzig, Germany. 24 August 2021.
- Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Borders, Marginality, and the Contemporary: Yang Zhichao’s Art at the Turn of the 21st Century”. 23nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. University of Leipzig, Germany. 25 August 2021.
- Berg, Daria. “Der Mann, der China erfand: Auf den Spuren von Xi Jinpings Macht”. Chinaforum Basel, 4 June 2021.
- Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Rising from the Margins: Women Superstars in Superpower China”. Conference “China From The Margins: New Narratives Of The Past And Present”, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Department of China Studies, Suzhou (PRC), 10-11 April 2021.
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