Waste, Gender, and Subalternity in Contemporary Chinese Literary and Visual Culture

我的项目将考察当代中国对浪费的文学和视觉表现。借鉴包括文学、电影、摄影和街头艺术在内的一系列主要来源，以及齐格蒙特·鲍曼的“浪费的生命”的概念，我将探索浪费的表现与后社会主义的中国对屈从的广泛体验的表现如何相关。在考察虚度生命的表现时，我将特别关注性别。对浪费的批判性研究已经越来越多地为文学和文化分析提供了信息，但涉及到中国的学术研究仍然很少。我的研究旨在解决这一差距。

My project will examine literary and visual representations of waste in contemporary China. Drawing on a range of primary sources including literature, film, photography, and street art and on Zygmunt Bauman's notion of "wasted lives," I will explore how representations of waste relate to representations of a broad experience of subalternity in postsocialist China. In examining representations of wasted lives, I will pay special attention to gender. Critical studies of waste have increasingly informed literary and cultural analysis, but this scholarship remains scant when it comes to China. My study aims to address this gap.