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3pm: SCREENING OF FILM: “Wolf Warrior II” – This 2017 action film traces the adventures of a charismatic ex-soldier from China as he journeys through Africa struggling with mercenaries, pirates and insurgents, to rescue Chinese factory workers and African children. The film was a massive global blockbuster that earned more at the box office than any other film in Chinese history. Although jingoistic and nationalist on its surface, the film reveals complexities of gender, race, imperialism, capitalism and sexuality, as well as military industries, container shipping economies, and medical-humanitarian logics.

5pm:  KEYNOTE TALK:  Dr. Petrus Liu, Boston University. “Rethinking Gender/Sexuality through the Cultural Politics of China Rising.”  Prof. Liu is the author of books Stateless Subjects (2011) and Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (2015).

6pm: PANEL ROUNDTABLE: “China Rising: Transregional Research and Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Race, Infrastructure and Culture,” featuring Paul Amar (UCSB), Lisa Rofel (UCSC), Cai Yiping (DAWN, Beijing), Petrus Lui (Boston U), Huang Yingying (Renmin U, Beijing), He Xiaopei (Pink Space Beijing), Laura Waisbich (Articulação Sul, Brazil, and Cambridge U), Maria Amelia Viteri Burbano (USF de Quito, Ecuador)

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