October 4th – London – Fu Manchu in London: Lao She, Limehouse and Yellow Peril in the Heart of Empire

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Fu Manchu in London: Lao She, Limehouse and Yellow Peril in the Heart of Empire

  

Conference Overview

 

 

The Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies is pleased to be hosting a one-day conference on the occasion of three auspiciously inter-related events this autumn: the publication by Penguin Modern Classics of Lao She’s forgotten masterpiece of 1920s Chinese London, Mr Ma and Son, the launch at the Ovalhouse Theatre of Daniel York’s satiric play, The Fu Manchu Complex (dir. Justin Audibert), and to mark the centenary of the evil genius – a collection of essays edited by Phil Baker and Antony Clayton, Lord of Strange Deaths: The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer (Strange Attractor Press, 2013). One hundred years later we re-examine the skewed perceptions that have arisen around his pervasive influence. 

Conference Speakers – in order of appearance

Phil Baker

Ross Forman

Robert Irwin

Antony Clayton

Julia Lovell and Paul French

Daniel York and Justin Audibert

 

The conference will be held at the University of Westminster, New Cavendish Street (room t.b.a) on Friday, October 4^th, 9.30-4.00. Admission is free. Please register your place by emailing Dr Anne Witchard here:

 

anne@translatingchina.info

 

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