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Sebastian Veg
	Research Topics \| Main publications \| Academic Positions Telephone: (852) 2815 1890 Fax: (852) 2815 3211 E-mail : click here Researcher & Associate Editor, China Perspectives from September 2006 Associate researcher, Centre for Research on Arts and Language (EHESS, Paris)
	Research topics
	Re-evaluation of Lu Xun and Republican literature; intellectual history of the May Fourth and “new culture” movement; Comparative approaches to Chinese and European cultural modernism (Kafka, Brecht, Céline) and its relationship to democracy ; Contemporary Chinese fiction (drama in the 20 th century, poetry, cinema) and politics Literature and political philosophy: fiction and public space, fiction and the transmission of norms, fiction and democracy
	PhD Dissertation: “Chinese Fictions of Power and Political Change: Kafka, Brecht, Segalen, Lu Xun, Lao She” University of Aix-Marseille I, 18 December 2004, summa cum laude. Committee: Yves Chevrier (EHESS), Noël Dutrait (Université of Aix-Marseille I ), Jean-Pierre Morel (University of Paris III, President), Fridrun Rinner (Université of Aix-Marseille I , Supervisor), Jean-Marie Schaeffer (CNRS-EHESS), Yinde Zhang (University of Paris III).
	Publications
	CRITICAL EDITIONS
2004	Translation from Chinese to French, notes, presentation and postface: Lu Xun, Errances [Panghuang/ Wandering], followed by “The branching paths of literature and politics”. Paris: Ed. Rue d’Ulm, 2004. 352 p .
	ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS, BOOK CHAPTERS
2006	“Reading Kafka’s Texts against their narrators.” Poétique, vol. 148 (2006): pp. 407-422. “From marginality to individuality in Gao Xingjian’s early plays”. In Noël Dutrait (ed), The Novels and Plays of Gao Xingjian. Paris: Le Seuil, 2006: pp. 147-167.
2005	“Fiction and Democracy: New Readings of Lu Xun and Lao She.” Études chinoises, vol. XXIV (2005): pp. 285-299. “Lu Xun and the cruelty of ‘Chinese torture’”, in Antonio Dominguez Leiva, Muriel Détrie (eds), Le supplice oriental dans la literature et les arts. Dijon: Éditions du murmure, 2005: pp. 271-286. “The limits of discourse: commitment in Brecht’s Good Person of Szechwan”, in Emmanuel Bouju (ed), L’Engagement littéraire. Rennes: Rennes University Press, 2005: pp. 259-269
2004	Co-editor of a special issue of Théâtre/Public, “China, theatre against cynicism?”, vol. 174 (June-Sept. 2004): pp. 31-76
1999	“Totalitarianism in East Germany? The example of bars (Kneipen) between 1968 and 1985”. Allemagne d’aujourd’hui, vol. 149 (July-September, 1999): pp. 81-100
Forthcoming	“The Chinese Genealogy of Power. China in Kafka’s stories”, in Jean-Pierre Morel (ed), Kafka. Paris: L’Herne, “Cahiers de l’Herne”, 2007.
	OTHER ARTICLES, BOOK REVIEWS
2007 2005	Review of I Love Dollars and other Stories of China by Zhu Wen. China Perspectives, vol. 2007/1 (1st quarter, 2007) “Anatomy of exhaustion: Shenwen ji (The Cross-examination) by Kang He”, Théâtre/Public, n° 178, June-Sept. 2005: pp. 60-63
2004	Review of Le Monde Romanesque chinois au 20 e siècle. Modernités et identités by Zhang Yinde. China Perspectives, vol. 84 (July-August 2004): pp. 63-64. “Reality at the Bottom of the Mine. Metamorphoses of Chinese Realism”, Les Cahiers du cinéma, n° 586, January 2004: pp. 40-41
2003	Review of Lu Xun by David Pollard. China Perspectives, vol. 80 (Nov.-Dec. 2003”): pp. 85-86. “Alarm Signal by Gao Xingjian in Beijing, 20 years later”. Vacarme, vol. 24 (July 2003): pp. 76-79. “Karaoke and politics: Unknown pleasures by Jia Zhangke”. Vacarme, vol. 22 (Jan. 2003): pp. 77-79
	OTHER TRANSLATIONS
2006	Translation from Chinese to French: Liu Zhenyun, Peaux d’ail et plumes de poulet[Yidi jimao/ Garlic skins and chicken feathers]. Paris: Bleu de Chine, 2006, 220 p. Followed by: “Renouncing or Resisting: what to do against chicken feathers”: pp. 203-213.
2005	Translation from Chinese to French: Liu Zhenyun, Les Mandarins[Guanren/ The Officials]. Paris: Bleu de Chine, 2004. 125 p. Followed by “Revolutionary discourse and bureaucratic spirals in The Officials, pp. 115-124.
2004	Translation from Chinese to French, notes and presentation (with Li Jinjia): Yu Jian, Dossier 0 [0 Dang’an/ File 0]. Po&sie, vol. 104 (June 2003), pp. 5-27. In book form: Paris; Bleu de Chine, 2005. 70 p.
	PAPERS READ
2006	“从无政府主义到民主：鲁迅五四时代的小说”，“鲁迅：跨文化对话”国际学术研讨会，绍兴， 2006 年 10 月 17-20 日。 [“From anarchism to democracy: Lu Xun’s May Fourth fiction.” Conference “Lu Xun: Intercultural Dialogue”, Shaoxing, 17-20 October 2006.] Article online “Escape without end and impossible exile: One man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian”, Conference on “Exiles in France in the 20 th century”, Cerisy-la-Salle, 14-21 August 2006. “Last Judgments in Mahagonny and The Good Person of Szechwan”, International Brecht Society Conference “Brecht and Death”, Augsburg, 12-16 July 2006. Organized a conference on “Fiction and Anarchism”, EHESS (Paris), 17 June 2006. Paper on “Literary Revolution, Anarchism and Democracy in May Fourth China.” “ Lu Xun, Zhang Binglin and Liu Shipei: radical conservatism and the resistance of Southern tradition.” Keynote speech, Lu Xun Conference organized by Xiamen University, April 6-10, 2006. “Brecht and open-ended configurations of history: The Good Person of Szechwan and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.” Conference on “Writing History, writing fiction” BNF (French National Library), 16-18 March 2006, Proceedings forthcoming (EHESS Press). “Kafka: the Politics of incompletion.” Conference on “Beginning and Ending,” University of Toulouse, 9-11 March 2006.
2005	“From A Dream of Red Mansions to The True Story of Ah Q: Bildung and deformation in the Chinese novel.” Conference on “The Bildungsroman”, University of Tours, 11-13 March 2005.
2004	“Lu Xun’s Anti-romanticism in Wandering.” XV th Congress of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), Heidelberg, August 26-29, 2004. “Lu Xun and the three betrayals of fiction: an uneasy definition at the crossroads of two traditions.” 17 th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Hong Kong, August 9-13, 2004. “Cannibalism as an ethical dilemma in Lu Xun and it's echoes in Mo Yan's The Land of Wine.” Écritures croisées, University of Aix-Marseille I, 27 March 2004
2003	“Ideology as Fiction : the Representation of East Germany in Good-bye Lenin by Wolfgang Becker.” Conference “East Germany revisisted », Humboldt-Universität (Berlin), October 4-5, 2003.
	ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2006	Researcher at CEFC
2005/2006	Post-doctoral Fellow, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Research Topic: ”Fiction and Democracy”
2004/2005	Lecturer (ATER), Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Tours
2001/2004	Teaching Asst., Dept. of Comparative literature , University of Aix-en-Provence
2000	Lecturer, French Dept., Beijing Foreign Studies University, China.
1997/1998	Teaching Assistant, French Dept., Brown University, Providence (RI), USA

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