Xi Jinping Era: Return to the dominance of ideology in arts and literature?

5.12. 2024, online, 1 PM (UTC +1)

We invite all to join our event hosted by Uniwersytet SWPS and Charles University Professor Olga Lomova, dedicated to various degrees of ideology in 🇨🇳 most recent literature and arts. The presentation by Professor Lomova will be followed by a discussion including Marcin Jacoby, Frantisek Reismuller 米德仁 and Piotr Machajek.

We see more and more ideology in Chinese public discourse of the last few, post-COVID years. Topics of patriotism and national self-confidence, Marxism and traditional values, war imagery in the China-US rivalry and the struggle to reshape the world order, have filled the Chinese public sphere. Arts and literature have also been influenced greatly by this atmosphere of national mobilisation around party ideology and party values. How do Chinese artists and writers function in this reality? What artistic choices do they make either to align with the official discourse or to criticise it? Can art in Xi Jinping’s China be at all free from ideology? Join us for a discussion with Professor Olga Lomová from Charles University in Prague, who will provide her own reading of today’s artistic reality in China. Professor Lomová’s presentation will be followed by a discussion with members of the EU funded research project China Horizons.