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First published: May 1, 2205 - Last updated: May 1, 2205
TITLE INFORMATION
Organizer: Paola Zamperini - Chair: Miya Xie
Title: Lin Yihan’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise
Subtitle: Exploring the Multiverse of Trauma Literature
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025) - Online Program
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 15, 2025
Language: English
Keywords:
Modern History:
21st Century |
Asian History:
Chinese History |
Cases:
Fictional Victims /
Fang Si-Chi;
Victims:
Age and Gender /
Female Adolescence;
Types:
Sexual Assault;
Representations:
Literary Texts /
Lin Yi-han
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Organizer:
Paola Zamperini,
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures,
Northwestern University -
Academia.edu,
Knowledge Commons
Chair:
Miya Qiong Xie,
Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages,
Dartmouth College -
Personal Website
Abstract:
»This panel focuses on Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise by Lin Yihan 林奕含 (1991-2017) and the opportunities trauma literature affords us to engage sexual violence in empowering ways, within and beyond academia. Published in Taiwan in 2017, and in the PRC in 2018, Lin Yi-Han’s debut novel narrates the grooming of a 13-year-old girl, Fang Si-Chi, by her neighbor, a teacher at a “cram” school, and of its devastating aftermath. First Love Paradise, having sold more than a million copies worldwide, remains Lin’s only novel: she killed herself shortly after publication, and her family then revealed that the book was based on Lin’s own experiences. In just few years, this text has deeply impacted the ways in which readers understand and respond to sexual violence against minors in Taiwan, the PRC and the Sinosphere. Its English translation, published in 2024, now brings this important and heartbreakingly beautiful novel to Anglophone readers. The presenters and discussants in the panel will contribute to ongoing dialogues about this text from a variety of approaches and disciplines: Jenna Tang, the translator of the English version, will reflect on her linguistic and cultural engagement with this novel; Paola Zamperini will speak to the pedagogical horizons it opens in Euroamerican academia; Lennart Riedel will discuss the novel’s impact on legal proceedings in the PRC. Linshan Jiang and Miya Xie, as discussants, will enrich these presentations by bringing their respective expertise to the fore to foster a productive exchange with the audience in attendance.«
(Source: Online Program)
Presentations:
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In Search of Fang Siqi’s Legal Paradise–Reforming PRC Law Through Literature
Lennart Riedel |
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Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise: Challenges and Opportunities
Jenna Tang |
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Teaching to Express: Lin Yi-Han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise and the Pedagogical Im/Possibilities of Trauma Literature
Paola Zamperini |
Wikipedia:
History of Asia:
History of China /
History of Taiwan (1945–present) |
Fiction:
Fictional victims of sexual assault |
Literature:
Taiwanese literature /
Lin Yi-han,
Fang Siqi’s Legal Paradise |
Sex and the law:
Sexual Assault
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