Paola Iovene
Biographic Data
| ID | 224038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Iovene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Iovene |
| SIGNATURE | IOVENE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Editor's Afterword: Refuse and Repair
On Mourning and Solidarities, on Poetry and Translation: A Note from the Associate Editor
By publishing these works by the Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective (Li Li Cao 离离草), we at positions hope to amplify their actions in solidarity with Palestine, inviting reflections on how to mourn the myriad lives lost to ethnonationalism and state violence. Two members of the CAO Collective and I collaborated on reworking their Chinese-English translation; after exchanging our respective versions, we met online to discuss and unify…
Guest Editor's Introduction: Cultures of Labor and the Labor of Culture
This special issue originates from the workshop "Cultures of Labor, Inequalities, and Eviction: Migrant Worker Literature and Media Practices in Contemporary China" held at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing in June 2019.The workshop brought together scholars and activists to discuss the ways in which migrant workers cope with dislocation and precarity through cultural practices such as writing, music, theater, and use of the internet an…
Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars
The Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei: Local Opera under the Revolution (1949-1956)
Since its consolidation in Yan’an in the early 1940s, the Chinese Communist Party has tapped into a rich repertoire of popular stories, imbuing familiar characters and narratives with new meanings ...
Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed, by a center of power. By contrast, Tales of Futures Past introduces "anticipation"—the expectations that permeate life as it unfolds—as a lens thr…
Chinese Operas on Stage and Screen: A Short Introduction
During the final week of the Olympics in August 2008, a friend in Beijing invited me for dumplings at her parents' place. When we got there, the television was turned to CCTV-11, the Chinese Central Television opera channel. My friend's mother was busy cooking and did not seem to mind when her daughter suggested that it would be more entertaining to watch the Olympics instead. When I asked them about the film just being broadcast, they explained …
Visual Anthropology: Chinese Documentaries: From Dogma to Polyphony by Yingchi Chu
Guest Editor's Introduction: Cultures of Labor and the Labor of Culture
This special issue originates from the workshop "Cultures of Labor, Inequalities, and Eviction: Migrant Worker Literature and Media Practices in Contemporary China" held at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing in June 2019.The workshop brought together scholars and activists to discuss the ways in which migrant workers cope with dislocation and precarity through cultural practices such as writing, music, theater, and use of the internet an…
Chinese Operas on Stage and Screen: A Short Introduction
During the final week of the Olympics in August 2008, a friend in Beijing invited me for dumplings at her parents' place. When we got there, the television was turned to CCTV-11, the Chinese Central Television opera channel. My friend's mother was busy cooking and did not seem to mind when her daughter suggested that it would be more entertaining to watch the Olympics instead. When I asked them about the film just being broadcast, they explained …
Visual Anthropology: Chinese Documentaries: From Dogma to Polyphony by Yingchi Chu
Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed, by a center of power. By contrast, Tales of Futures Past introduces "anticipation"—the expectations that permeate life as it unfolds—as a lens thr…
The Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei: Local Opera under the Revolution (1949-1956)
Since its consolidation in Yan’an in the early 1940s, the Chinese Communist Party has tapped into a rich repertoire of popular stories, imbuing familiar characters and narratives with new meanings ...
Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars
Guest Editor's Introduction: Cultures of Labor and the Labor of Culture
This special issue originates from the workshop "Cultures of Labor, Inequalities, and Eviction: Migrant Worker Literature and Media Practices in Contemporary China" held at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing in June 2019.The workshop brought together scholars and activists to discuss the ways in which migrant workers cope with dislocation and precarity through cultural practices such as writing, music, theater, and use of the internet an…
On Mourning and Solidarities, on Poetry and Translation: A Note from the Associate Editor
By publishing these works by the Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective (Li Li Cao 离离草), we at positions hope to amplify their actions in solidarity with Palestine, inviting reflections on how to mourn the myriad lives lost to ethnonationalism and state violence. Two members of the CAO Collective and I collaborated on reworking their Chinese-English translation; after exchanging our respective versions, we met online to discuss and unify…
Editor's Afterword: Refuse and Repair
Art (6 works) · History (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · China (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works)