{"id":125807,"date":"2025-11-10T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/125807\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:35:07","slug":"miu-miu-literary-club-in-shanghai-a-womans-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/125807\/","title":{"rendered":"Miu Miu Literary Club In Shanghai: ‘A Woman\u2019s Education’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tREADING ON THE ROAD:\u00a0Move over BookTok. Miu Miu<\/a> is bringing its Literary Club to Shanghai<\/a> \u2014 and online.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a continuation of its second edition in Milan<\/a> that left off in April, the literature-centric event is titled \u201cA Woman\u2019s Education\u201d and will examine the themes of girlhood, love and education afresh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to French existentialist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir and playwright and writer Fumiko Enchi, considered one of the most prominent female authors in Japan\u2019s Sh\u014dwa era, the Shanghai Miu Miu<\/a> Literary Club will examine the work of Eileen Chang, widely considered one of the most important voices in contemporary Chinese literature.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe one-day event will be anchored by three panel discussions centered on topics influenced by a seminal book by each author: de Beauvoir\u2019s 1954 novel \u201cThe Inseparables,\u201d Enchi\u2019s \u201cThe Waiting Years\u201d and Chang\u2019s \u201cThe Fall of the Pagoda,\u201d a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel that sees its young female protagonist grow up in a declining aristocratic family in 1930s Shanghai. Written in the 1960s, it was published posthumously in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDiscussions will be moderated by Zhang Pingjin, professor in the department of Chinese languages and literature at Shanghai\u2019s Tongji University.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanelists will include Yuan Xiaoyi, a leading Chinese scholar and translator of modern and contemporary French literature; Malaysian novelist Li Zishu, whose Chinese-language works shaped discourse on diaspora and identity; Tokyo-born, Chinese-language author Yoshii Shinobu, best known for her intimate portrayal of urban Japanese life titled \u201cTokyo 8m2\u201d; Chinese novelist Di An, considered a representative of the post-1980s literary generation; Zhang Pingjin, whose work connects Chinese and Western feminist theory, and literary critic Ye Zi.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on the program will be further readings of poetry<\/a> and prose as well as live musical performances.\u00a0While the event\u2019s location in Shanghai\u2019s cosmopolitan Jing\u2019An district is yet to be revealed, the program will be streamed live on Miu Miu<\/a>\u2019s Tencent channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING ON THE ROAD:\u00a0Move over BookTok. Miu Miu is bringing its Literary Club to Shanghai \u2014 and online.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1657,146,85,46,66690],"class_list":["post-125807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-china","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-miu-miu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}