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季风人文讲坛2026年4月活动
JF Salon Announcement of April 2026
四月的季風書園，把目光投向「影像」與「記憶」。 從華南水域的歷史變遷，到個體身體經驗的紀錄；雞是如何跨越宗教儀式、貿易網絡與帝國擴張，串聯起東西方的文化與經濟；從地下歷史書寫，到被封存與被刪除的影像，本月的節目橫跨紀錄片、文學與歷史，試圖連接歷史與當下，我們依靠什麼來理解世界？
本月特別策劃的「中國民間檔案館紀錄片展映」，呈現1980至90年代中國新紀錄運動的珍稀影像。這些作品多數曾被禁止、未公開或極少流通，是對一段劇烈轉型時期最直接、最未經修飾的見證。
April 3, Friday, 6:00–8:00 PM｜Bilingual ( Mandarin Chinese & English)
Metamorphosis of the Bay Area 《灣區變形記》
Based on four decades of fieldwork, Metamorphosis of the Bay Area traces the transformation of South China’s Pearl River Delta from a water-based society into a modern urban landscape. Through historical images and ethnographic storytelling, the film explores how local communities were reshaped by state power, land reform, and global economic forces. More than a regional history, it offers a profound reflection on how China entered modernity.
基於長達四十年的田野調查，《灣區變形記》以珠江三角洲為核心，講述一個關於水域社會如何逐步轉變為現代城市空間的歷史。從明清時期的水上生活，到當代高速城市化進程，影片以影像與人類學敘事交織，呈現出地方社會在國家與全球資本力量之間的重塑與掙扎。
這不僅是一部區域史紀錄，更是一個關於「如何成為現代」的中國故事。
About the Speaker
Helen F. Siu, a Professor of Anthropology and former chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. Her teaching interests are political and historical anthropology, urban and global culture change. She has conducted decades of fieldwork in Southern China, exploring agrarian change and commerce, the nature of the socialist state, and the refashioning of identities. Lately, she explores rural-urban interface in China, inter-Asian connections, China-Africa encounters, popular music and new political space in Hong Kong.
Helen F. Siu（蕭鳳霞），耶魯大學人類學教授，曾任東亞研究委員會主席。她長期從事華南地區田野研究，關注農業轉型、商業網絡、社會主義國家形態與身份重構等議題。近年研究延伸至中國的城鄉交界、跨亞洲連結、中非互動，以及香港的流行文化與新興政治空間。
Moderator Denise Y. Ho is a historian at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where she teaches modern Chinese history. She is the author of Curating Revolution and the co-editor of Material Contradictions in Mao's China. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled The Nation's Gate: A Cross-Border History of Hong Kong and China.
喬治城大學外交學院歷史學者，研究現代中國歷史與文化政治。著有《Curating Revolution》，並合編《Material Contradictions in Mao's China》。目前正撰寫新書《The Nation’s Gate》，探討香港與中國之間的跨境歷史。
April 9, Thursday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In English
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?
The chicken may be the most familiar bird in the world—but its story is anything but ordinary. Andrew Lawler traces its origins in Southeast Asia and follows its journey across continents, religions, and empires. In doing so, he reveals how this seemingly humble animal became central to global trade, culture, and civilization.
雞，是世界上最普通的動物之一。但正如著名記者和作家Andrew Lawler所展示的，它同時也是一個深刻塑造人類文明的物種。從中國南方與東南亞的馴化起源，到跨越宗教儀式、貿易網絡與帝國擴張，雞的歷史其實是一部全球史。這場講座將帶領我們重新理解一個被忽略的主角，以及它如何串聯起東西方的文化與經濟。
About the Speaker
Andrew Lawler is a journalist and author who has written about history, science, religion, and politics from dozens of countries。Andrew’s byline has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and many other publications. Andrew has won a number of journalism awards, and his work has appeared several times in The Best of Science and Nature Writing。
Andrew Lawler，资深记者与作家，长期关注历史、科学、宗教与政治议题，足迹遍及全球多个国家。其作品发表于《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《大西洋》、《国家地理》与《Smithsonian》等媒体。 他同时担任《Science》特约撰稿人、《Archaeology》特约编辑，并为国家地理探险家与普立兹中心资助作者。Lawler 曾多次获得新闻与写作奖项，其作品亦入选 Best of Science and Nature Writing.
April 12, Sunday, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM｜Documentary Screening & Q&A with Shiori Ito 
Black Box Diaries
Black Box Diaries is a deeply personal documentary by Shiori Ito, who documents her own investigation into sexual assault. Filmed from a first-person perspective, the film captures her pursuit of justice amid intense public backlash. More than a personal story, it reflects on systems of silence—and the courage required to speak.
这是一部来自当事人的影像纪录。Shiori Ito 以第一人称拍摄，记录自己对性侵案件的调查与追索过程。在日本社会的压力与舆论反弹之中，她的个人经历成为一场更大社会运动的引爆点。本片不仅是对创伤的记录，也是对制度、媒体与沉默文化的深刻提问。
About the Speaker
Shiori Ito is an Oscar and BAFTA-nominated documentary filmmaker, journalist, and writer, and the co-founder of Hanashi Films, focusing on gender-based human rights issues, and was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2020。
Shiori Ito 是纪录片导演、记者与作家，其作品聚焦性别与人权议题。她曾被《TIME》评为全球最具影响力人物之一。
China Unofficial Archives Documentary Screening
1988-1994：中国『新纪录运动』影片展映
Structure. Wave. Youth. Cinema: Four Rare Documentaries Screening (1988–1994)
This special program, presented in collaboration with the China Unofficial Archives, features four landmark works from China’s New Documentary movement (1988–1994). Many of these films have rarely—or never—been publicly screened. Together, they offer an unfiltered portrait of a society in transition, capturing urban life, youth, environmental crisis, and historical rupture. These works are not only cinematic experiments, but vital historical records outside official narratives. Many of these films are being screened publicly for the first time. Together, they form a rare archive of China’s recent past—urgent, fragile, and deeply human。
季风书园与中国民间档案馆联合呈现四部中国新纪录运动的重要作品（1988–1994）。
这些影像诞生于一个剧烈动荡的历史时刻，记录了城市、青年、环境与国家之间的张力。它们既是影像实验，也是历史证词——在官方叙事之外，保留了另一种观看中国的方式。
Program Details
Day 1： April 20, 1 PM - 9:30 PM, Opening Remark
1:00-1:20 PM, Opening remarks by Sam Maclean(Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies)
1:20--5:00 PM, Tiananmen 天安门 (Parts 1–4, 213 min.) [1991, Shi Jian & Chen Jue]
6:00-9:30 PM, Tiananmen 天安门 (Parts 5–8, 206 min.) [1991, Shi Jian & Chen Jue]
《天安门》（1988–1991）the sprawling city symphony that was commissioned by Chinese television but ultimately banned。这部长达数小时的影像史诗，试图从城市日常与公共空间出发，重建一个时代的精神结构。影片最初由官方委托制作，最终却未能公开播出。
Day 2：April 21, 6 PM - 9:20 PM
Reform School Students 工读生 (Parts 1 & 2, 71 min.) [1994, Wang Zijun & Wang Lan]
Reform School Students 工读生 (Parts 3 & 4, 79 min.) [1994, Wang Zijun & Wang Lan]
《工读生》（1991–1994）Reform School Students, a pioneering ecological film that failed to pass censorship review。透过对「问题青年」教育机构的观察，本片呈现制度与个体之间的复杂关系，也揭示了被忽略的社会边缘群体。
Day 3：April 22 (Earth Day), 6 PM -9:30 PM, Closing remarks by Ian Johnson
《只有一个地球》 Only One Earth (1990), the avant-garde ecological essay film.
《我毕业了》I Have Graduated (1992) is a sensitive portrait of state-run institutions for delinquent and abandoned youth that was made for Beijing Television but never broadcast; and the original, extended cut of the independently produced, which features candid interviews with students from the last graduating class to leave Beijing campuses during the aftermath of June 4, 1989.
前者是早期环境纪录影像的实验性尝试，后者则透过学生访谈，捕捉一代人在历史断裂中的迷惘与选择。
April 22, Tuesday, 4:00–5:30 PM｜In English with bilingual Q&A
Archiving China’s Grassroots Historians: The Battle for Memory in Xi's China
During the Cold War, public intellectuals in the Soviet bloc were household names in the West--Solzhenitsyn, Havel, Kundera, Forman. That isn't the case for Chinese writers and filmmakers today. Why? In his 2023 book Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ian Johnson introduces us to some of these Chinese thinkers. That same year, he launched the China Underground Archives to make their works available in a systematic, non-partisan way for Chinese and non-Chinese audiences. In this talk, Johnson describes the writing of Sparks, why he launched the archive, and how it has morphed into a widely read publication with its own weekly newsletter.
在一个高度控制历史叙事的时代，仍然有人选择记录。从地下刊物到个人档案，这些民间历史书写者试图保存那些不被允许存在的记忆。Ian Johnson 在其著作《Sparks》中，带领读者进入这个隐秘却持续扩展的网络——一群分散各地的作者、编辑与研究者，以极其有限的资源，对抗遗忘与审查。
这场对谈将讨论中国民间历史书写的现状与困境，以及「档案」在当代中国为何成为一种具有政治意义的行动。当官方叙事占据主导位置时，个体如何保存另一种历史？这些努力，又如何影响我们理解当下与未来？
About the Speaker
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and researcher based in Berlin. He is the founder of the China Unofficial Archives, a project dedicated to preserving underground writings, samizdat publications, and documentary materials banned or suppressed in China. His book Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future examines how independent historians challenge official narratives and keep alternative histories alive。
April 28, Tuesday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In Chinese
The Memory Museum：非母语的记忆写作
Stretching from the present into imagined futures, M Lin’s debut collection explores migration, memory, and life between cultures. Her stories follow characters navigating displacement, race, and belonging—finding moments of beauty amid uncertainty. From a dystopian childhood haunted by memory, to migrant lives shaped by chance encounters, to artists confronting censorship and identity, The Memory Museum reveals a bold new voice with emotional depth and political imagination。
当一个人开始用非母语写作，记忆是否仍然完整？还是会在语言转换中发生变形与重组？《The Memory Museum》以细腻而富有想象力的叙事，描写在移民经验与文化错位之中，个体如何重新理解自身与世界的关系。这场对谈将围绕第二语言写作、文化翻译与身份建构展开，讨论语言如何同时成为限制与可能。在跨文化语境之中，我们如何书写自身？又如何保存那些难以被翻译的经验与情感？
About the Speaker & Moderator
M Lin is a Chinese writer and translator based in the United States. Writing in English as her second language, her work explores migration, memory, and the politics of language. Her debut collection The Memory Museum has been widely recognized for its formal innovation and emotional depth。
Caiwei Chen 陈采薇 is an award-winning journalist and oral historian based in New York. She writes on technology, culture, and Chinese society, and currently works at MIT Technology Review. Her work often engages with questions of narrative, memory, and digital life。
April 29, Wednesday, 6:00–7:30 PM｜In English
KOREAN MESSIAH: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult
Jonathan Cheng, The Wall Street Journal’s China bureau chief and former Korea bureau chief, as he discusses his latest book, KOREAN MESSIAH, a landmark history of North Korea, told through the rise of the Kim dynasty and its surprising ties to American Christianity. Drawing on letters, diaries, and never-before-unearthed archival material that temper and often contradict the glorious historical record promoted by Kim Il Sung’s legions of hagiographers, KOREAN MESSIAH tells the true story of a country shrouded in fictions. Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, hails “Provocative and fascinating, KOREAN MESSIAH casts fresh light on North Korea.”
北韩的政治体制，长期被视为封闭且难以理解。但在《Korean Messiah》中，Jonathan Cheng 提出一个出人意料的视角：这一体制的形成，与早期朝鲜半岛的基督教传统之间，存在着深刻的历史连结。
透过书信、日记与罕见档案材料，本书重建了金日成崛起的历史过程，并揭示其个人崇拜体系如何借鉴宗教语言与象征。这场对谈将带我们重新思考政治神话如何被建构，以及历史如何被不断改写与再生产。
About the Speaker
Jonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and a former Korea bureau chief. He has reported extensively on politics and society across East Asia, including multiple reporting trips to North Korea. Korean Messiah is his first book。
4月30日，星期四，下午6:00–7:30｜英文主讲
在中国阅读莎士比亚、奥威尔和马克·吐温
莎士比亚、马克·吐温和奥威尔都创造了阐明权力、荒诞和人性的世界。本次对话将与杰弗里·瓦瑟斯特罗姆（Jeffrey Wasserstrom）和戴楠（Nan Z. Da）一起探讨他们的作品如何在中国——被思想家和普通读者——阅读和重新诠释，以理解政治、历史和生活经验。演讲者将根据自己的研究，反思跨文化阅读和智力交流，尤其是在当前这种对话日益脆弱的时刻。
莎士比亚、马可吐温与乔治・欧威尔，为我们提供了关于权力、荒谬与人性的经典图景。但当这些文本进入中国语境时，它们如何被理解？又如何被用来回应具体的历史与政治现实？
本场对谈将探讨这些经典作品在中国大陆的接受史，从知识分子阅读到公共文化再诠释，呈现一种跨文化思想交流的轨迹。在全球语境日益紧张的当下，这样的阅读与对话，或许比以往任何时候都更重要。
关于演讲者
杰弗里·瓦瑟斯特罗姆（Jeffrey Wasserstrom）是加州大学尔湾分校的历史学荣休教授。他的研究重点是现代中国历史、社会运动和全球思想交流。他著有多本有影响力的书籍，包括《守夜：香港在边缘》（Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink）。
戴楠（Nan Z. Da）是约翰霍普金斯大学英文系副教授。作为比较文学和批判理论学者，她的作品探讨了中美文学交锋以及美学、政治和历史的交集。她最近的著作《中国版<李尔王>的悲剧》（The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear）通过莎士比亚的分析来审视毛泽东主义。
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