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

我的项目将研究当代中国废物的文学和视觉表现。利用一系列的主要来源，包括文学，电影，摄影，街头艺术和齐格蒙特鲍曼的“浪费生命”的概念，我将探讨如何浪费的表征与后社会主义中国的从属性的广泛经验的表征。在研究浪费生命的表现时，我将特别注意性别。对废物的批判性研究越来越多地为文学和文化分析提供信息，但这种学术研究在中国仍然很少。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.