[csaa-forum] Seminars on the Transnational: "Sino-liberalism: The Socialist Market and the Neoliberal Concept of Freedom", Dr Lynda Ng, Monday 7th Nov, 5pm, at UNSW

[Laetitia Nanquette]

Seminars on the Transnational: "Sino-liberalism: The Socialist Market and the Neoliberal Concept of Freedom", Dr Lynda Ng, Western Sydney University
Monday 7th November 2016, 5pm - 6:30pm, UNSW, Room 327, Robert Webster Building
Lynda Ng is an Adjunct Fellow with the Writing & Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. She works in the fields of postcolonial literature, Chinese diasporic studies and transnationalism. She has an edited collection of essays on Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, entitled Indigenous Transnationalism, forthcoming with Giramondo Press in 2017. She is also part of an international collaboration with the Australian Research Council-funded project, “Transnational Coetzee”, that investigates the works of J. M. Coetzee.
One of the most paradoxical developments in recent times is China’s successful implementation of the ‘socialist market’. While there has been much debate as to whether China’s selective adoption of free-market reforms can legitimately be considered as ‘neoliberal’, the perceived threat that neoliberalism presents to Chinese culture is a real one. China, in this instance, offers important insight into the issues that surround transnational exchange – in particular the tendency to describe transnational flows in universal terms when the reality is always a local reaction to, and expression of, external influences. In this paper I look closely at the neoliberal alignment of individual freedom with market freedom, as outlined by Milton Friedman in his seminal text Capitalism and Freedom (1962). By applying literary analysis to this economic tract, the rhetorical dimensions that help to make his endorsement of the free market so convincing are made apparent. The second part of the paper uses examples from Chinese literature to demonstrate the geo-cultural specificity that inheres within neoliberal thought.
 https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/seminars-on-the-transnational-sino-liberalism-the-socialist-market-and-the-neoliberal-concept-of-freedom/
All are very welcome to the workshop. There is no need to register. For enquiries, Dr Laetitia Nanquette: l.nanquette at unsw.edu.au<mailto:l.nanquette at unsw.edu.au>

Robert Webster Building is located mid-way off the UNSW main walkway. Map Reference G14. Room 327 is located on the third floor.

Dr Laetitia Nanquette,
Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow,
School of Arts and Media,
University of New South Wales, Sydney
+61 (2) 9385 7792
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