Nick Admussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 387174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Admussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Admussen |
| SIGNATURE | ADMUSSEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contemporary Chinese poetry in English translation: An interview with Nick Admussen
Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature at Asian Studies Department, Cornell University, where his research and translation focus on contemporary Chinese poetry. He is an acclaimed poetry scholar and translator as well as a prolific essayist and poet. In this interview, which took place via email in April – May 2024, Admussen reviews his career path and shares his observations about the study, translation and reception of co…
Questioning the Chinese Model: Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China
Survival Politics and Sacrificial Transmediation: Liu Xiaobo and Signature Event Context
This article interrogates the medial politics of 2010 Nobel Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo through a re-situation of Marc Abélès’s concept of “survival politics.” It understands Liu’s energetic self-representation in multiple media as an attempt to produce a usable Derridean signature, connections between texts and contexts that allow for cohesion inside endangered communities, as well as methods by which to contest dominant narratives. By reading Liu…
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
The Elegiac Transnational: Mourning Chinese Poetry
This essay is an elegy for the study of a Chinese elegy. Its putative archive is a book of poems printed in Shenzhen by the late Hei Guang, a collection I do not own by a poet who I never got to meet. My pursuit of the collection is hampered by my recent inability to travel to China, by changes in my ability to transculturate, and by the limits on global circulation in the age of climate change. Experimenting with tactics drawn from China’s tradi…
Virus as Hermeneutic
This essay theorizes the potential uses and limitations of describing a text as “viral.” Literary texts are often described as viral when they serve as tools of self-expression for those who reproduce them: viral texts must therefore delete or suppress qualities that mark them as alien, and emphasize qualities that identify them with those who might repeat them. As they circulate, viruses span and connect social and intellectual lineages through …
A New Literary History of Modern China
Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry
This book is a genre study and genre history of prose poetry in China that begins during the Hundred Flowers Movement (1956) with authors Ke Lan and Guo Feng, describes prose poets of the 1980s such as Liu Zaifu, and ends with contemporary artists Ouyang Jianghe and Xi Chuan. The book argues for the distinctiveness of contemporary prose poetry from the prose compositions of Lu Xun, Liu Bannong, and other artists from the Republican period; it ins…
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Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry
This book is a genre study and genre history of prose poetry in China that begins during the Hundred Flowers Movement (1956) with authors Ke Lan and Guo Feng, describes prose poets of the 1980s such as Liu Zaifu, and ends with contemporary artists Ouyang Jianghe and Xi Chuan. The book argues for the distinctiveness of contemporary prose poetry from the prose compositions of Lu Xun, Liu Bannong, and other artists from the Republican period; it ins…
A New Literary History of Modern China
Virus as Hermeneutic
This essay theorizes the potential uses and limitations of describing a text as “viral.” Literary texts are often described as viral when they serve as tools of self-expression for those who reproduce them: viral texts must therefore delete or suppress qualities that mark them as alien, and emphasize qualities that identify them with those who might repeat them. As they circulate, viruses span and connect social and intellectual lineages through …
The Elegiac Transnational: Mourning Chinese Poetry
This essay is an elegy for the study of a Chinese elegy. Its putative archive is a book of poems printed in Shenzhen by the late Hei Guang, a collection I do not own by a poet who I never got to meet. My pursuit of the collection is hampered by my recent inability to travel to China, by changes in my ability to transculturate, and by the limits on global circulation in the age of climate change. Experimenting with tactics drawn from China’s tradi…
Contemporary Chinese poetry in English translation: An interview with Nick Admussen
Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature at Asian Studies Department, Cornell University, where his research and translation focus on contemporary Chinese poetry. He is an acclaimed poetry scholar and translator as well as a prolific essayist and poet. In this interview, which took place via email in April – May 2024, Admussen reviews his career path and shares his observations about the study, translation and reception of co…
Questioning the Chinese Model: Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China
Survival Politics and Sacrificial Transmediation: Liu Xiaobo and Signature Event Context
This article interrogates the medial politics of 2010 Nobel Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo through a re-situation of Marc Abélès’s concept of “survival politics.” It understands Liu’s energetic self-representation in multiple media as an attempt to produce a usable Derridean signature, connections between texts and contexts that allow for cohesion inside endangered communities, as well as methods by which to contest dominant narratives. By reading Liu…
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
Art (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · China (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)