Coraline Jortay 喬海霖

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History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻‍♀️🚴🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️) -- She/her

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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Jun 28

Pour la 15e édition du festival l'Heure d'Été au cinéma Galeries, belle programmation de films taïwanais en intérieur et en plein air à Bruxelles jusqu'en août 🍿 galeries.be/wp-content/u...

Affiche représentant une ruelle dans la nuit avec une silhouette féminine sous un parapluie

Calendrier de la programmation disponible en suivant le lien

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Jun 15

Published my first academic article as a grad student in a very reputable French semiolinguistics journal which suffered from a similar problem. Thankfully, my work also straddles gender studies so English-speaking colleagues thought I was just very edgy.

Semen
Revue de
sémio-linguistique
des textes et discours
RAL
44 | 2018
Le genre, lieu discursif de l'hétérogène
I. Dossier thématique
Blanches colombes, monstrueuses machines : le genre linguistique au miroir de la traduction littéraire chinois-français
Coraline Jortay

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· May 20

Demandez le programme ! Pratiques rituelles des bateliers, rêves et littérature expérimentale, repenser l'histoire de la sinologie... Ce vendredi 22 mai, on accueille une série de jeunes chercheurs passionnants à @inalco.fr pour la JJC de @etudeschinoises.bsky.social afec.hypotheses.org/12239

Conference poster reading "journée jeunes chercheurs de l'AFEC, 22 mai 2026, INALCO, Auditorium Dumézil, 2 rue de Lille 75007 Paris" featuring a picture of a second hand bookshop as its main illustration. Logos at the bottom of the page

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· May 6

Moi à mes étudiants : il faut préparer à l'avance ! Moi, minuit trente, veille d'un atelier de traduction littéraire dans un lycée de Valenciennes autour de l'autrice chinoise Lu Min : *rajoute frénétiquement plein de jolies couvertures de livre dans le PPT*

À la rencontre de Lu Min, une Ivresse de Papier
7 mai 2026, lycée Watteaux de Valenciennes
Photo de l'autrice et couverture de livre

Photo de l'autrice Lu Min (1973-) et couvertures de ses romans et novellas en anglais et en chinois

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Apr 28

Now that it's official... Overjoyed to join the ranks of brilliant translators already at work on Lee Chia-Ying's 李佳穎 "A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven" - after Dutch this summer, English this winter, (+ soon Swedish and Italian, I think) -- French is now forthcoming mid-2027!

Book cover featuring three ghosts drawn
against a yellow background

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Apr 24

Le 26 mai, nous aurons la chance d'accueillir notre collègue Tai Li-chuan de l'Academia Sinica, qui viendra nous parler de Zeng Zhaoyu, une véritable pionnière de la muséologie et de l'archéologie en Chine (ici avec son équipe au musée de Nankin) All welcome ! ✨ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeng_Zh...

Zeng explaining the Nanking museum collection to the staff. From Zeng Zhaoyu Collected Works, Diary and Letter Volume, Nanjing Museum, Cultural Relics Publishing House.

https://womeninarchaeology.com/2024/12/01/zeng-zhaoyu-chinese-archaeologist/amp/

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Apr 15

What in the... ? My brain was so unready for the kawaiification of Lu Xun 😵‍💫 I mean, if we're making wildly inaccurate cartoonish mascots, can we please bring this one back? At least lives up to the vibe a little bit.

Cartoon of Lu Xun smoking a cigar with pixelized glasses

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Apr 10

Je découvre au hasard d'un passage en librairie que les Belles Lettres ont réédité l'excellente traduction de Pierre Ryckmans de 1975 de La Mauvaise herbe de Lu Xun ✨💫 (superbe nouvelle car épuisée depuis de nombreuses années et pas facile à trouver (et chère) en deuxième main 🎉)

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Apr 10

With apologies for the bad pics (will do a proper thread later on), lovely surprise in the mail this morning -- Uncanny Beliefs is now out in the world with a chapter that was extraordinarily fun to write on vamps and vampire-capitalists in Republican China 🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻

Book on a table, reading "Uncanny beliefs: superstition in modern Chinese history"

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction / EMILY BAUM
I. Discourses on Good and Bad Religion in China,
1850-1911 / VINCENT GOOSSAERT
2. "Superstitious Beyond All Expression": Superstition, China, and the Age of Empire, 1860-1900 / ALBERT Wo
3. Disembodied Spirits or Mental Suggestion? Psychical Research and the Redefinition of Superstition in Republican China / LUIs FERNANDO BERNARDI JUNQUEIRA
4. Shifting Boundaries: Spirit Writing and Superstition in
Republican China / MATTHIAS SCHUMANN
5. The Affective Ties of Religion and Enlightenment: Tales of Medicine and Superstition / REBECCA NEDOSTUP
6. Women, Nation, and Superstition in Sinophone Muslims Reform Discourses During the Republican Era / VINCENT MU-CHIEN CHEN
7. Superstition in Translation? Vamps, Vampire Capitalists, and Vocabularies of Class and Gender in Republican China / CORALINE JORTAY
8. Fate, Fatalism, and Superstition in the Early Peoples Republic of China / EMILY BAUM
9. Household Religion and the Attack on "Superstitious Goods" in the Peoples Republic of China, 1949-1976
/ S. A. SMITH
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149
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189

10. Cadres, Superstition, and the Making of Authority in North China Before and During the Socialist Education Movement, 1961-1966 / LoNG YANG
II. Superstition and the "Religion Sphere" / ADAM YUET CHAU
12. Reimagining Superstition in the Digital Age: Fantasy Novels, Media Corporations, and the Chinese State / ZHANGE NI
Epilogue: From Superstition to Cultural Heritage: Is Anything Left of the Campaigns Against Superstition?
/ IAN JOHNSON
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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343
347

Superstition in Translation?
Vamps, Vampire Capitalists, and Vocabularies of Class and Gender in Republican China
CORALINE JORTAY
o vocabularies of superstition translate? To what extent are they reshaped through local imaginaries or transferred onto existing categories in the receiving society? How are they then reconfigured as they leave the realm of discourse on superstition to enter other discursive realms? In her 1934 essay The Park, the feminist writer Xiao Hong (Ai4.
1911-1942) conjures up the figure of the woman vampire to parody a form of superstition afflicting left-wing male writers of her time who express disgust and horror in the face of lipstick-wearing, "blood-drinking," modern girls:
The first thing I read in the newspaper every morning was the literary sup-plement. On this particular day, I noted an editorial:
When I see lipstick on modern women, it reminds me of "blood." How do young ladies of the capitalist classes survive? Don't they survive by drinking blood? This is a clear and undeniable sign. Any mouth on which human blood has been smeared is a foul mouth. A mouth with a smell and color of blood is a sign of foulness.'
1. The Park (Gongyuan) was first published in periodical form in 1934 before being collected in Market Street (Shang shi jie) in 1936 as part of Ba Jin's literature series, edited by the Culture and Life Publishing Company. The except quoted here in English translation is from Xiao Hong, Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin, trans. Howard Goldbatt (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015), 90.

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Mar 18

A little too excited about unleashing full-on lexicography nerd mode and forget about the world for 3 days next week as colleagues in Montpellier are running a massive, stellar conference on Asian languages in the history of lexicography 💪📚 chedil-alhl.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/P...

Poster : "Les langues asiatiques dans l'histoire de la lexicographie"
23-25 March, 23>25.03.26
organisé par ReSO et ChEDiL (Projet-ANR-23-CE27-0008)
Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry
Site Saint-Charles

All images are screenshots of the conference programme, available in text form by following the link below:
https://chedil-alhl.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Programme_def_ALHL_Chedil_3.pdf

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Mar 16

Venez rencontrer Chi Ta-wei, qui sera de passage à Paris, pour une soirée autour des littératures féministes et queer de Taiwan, ce vendredi 10 avril 🌈 Gratuit bien sûr, mais inscription auprès des libraires via le lien ci-dessous : www.librairielephenix.fr/post/6267/di...htt

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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Mar 9

Vient de paraître : le dernier numéro de Critique dédié aux études sinophones coordonné par Pierre-Mong Lim, "Sinophonies" Avec un entretien avec Shu-mei Shih +divers articles pour comprendre le dialogue qu'elles entretiennent avec les études francophones, féministes, postcoloniales et décoloniales

Couverture de revue lettrée en bleu clair sur fond blanc :
Texte

SINOPHONIES
Shu-ici SHIn
Le concept de «sinophonie»
Piette-Mong LIm
Les études sinophores, recherche d'un dehors (de la Chine)
Coraline JORTAY
Décoloniser les études taiwanaises ?
Camille Wu
Des féminismes incommensurables:
Tarwan, Chine, Hongkong
Entretion avec Shu-mei SHIn
«La Chine a été, et est, un empire!»
Pierre-Henri CASTEL
Spinozifer la psylacanyse?
Francis WOLFF
La puissance du temps
Benoît BASSE
La justice doit-elle savoir pardonner?
Philippe BERTHIER
Concordia discors: Breton et Graca
Julicn BOUTONNIER
Journal d'un tfort:
Vinclair et le prosimètre
REVUE
GÉNÉRALE
DES PUBLICATIONS FRANÇAISES ET ÉTRANGÈRES

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Mar 5

Today in Very Serious Research™️ Ever wonder how Paris' reputation as 'city of love' came about? You'll have to thank 1920s Chinese travel writers for successfully rebranding the Seine St Denis as 'Saint Penis,' it seems...

Screenshot of Chinese text, with "St Penis" appearing in the Latin alphabet

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Feb 26

#Skystorians, now that Microsoft is retiring the Lens app (seemingly to force OneDrive, cloud storage (and thus possibly AI) down our throats), what's everyone favourite all-around scan-to-PDF app solution for the archives ? (hopefully one that supports resizing, cropping, and saving locally) 🗃️

Screenshot of text: Retirement of Microsoft Lens
The Microsoft Lens app will be retired from iOS and Android devices starting January 9, 2026, and will no longer be supported after February 9. You can continue to scan documents in the app until March 9, 2026. After that, you will not be able to create new scans, but you will still be able to access your previous scans if the app remains installed on your device.
Note: You need to be signed into your last active account on the Microsoft Lens app to access past scans.
Microsoft Lens will be removed from the Apple App store and Google Play Store on February 9, 2026.
Recommended alternative: OneDrive
To continue using scanning capabilities, we recommend the OneDrive app, which includes a

Screenshot of text: Recommended alternative: OneDrive
To continue using scanning capabilities, we recommend the OneDrive app, which includes a built-in scanning feature.
How to scan with the OneDrive app
1. Open the OneDrive app on your mobile device.
2. Select the + button on the bottom corner.
3. Select Scan photo to scan your documents.
4. Save it to your desired location in your OneDrive.
Note: OneDrive does not support saving scans locally on your device.
If you need assistance during this transition, visit

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Feb 25

Happy pub day to @driessenmiriam.bsky.social 's "Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty," a labour of love and heartbreak, with fieldwork in Ethiopia spanning 2011-2020, by a brilliant colleague who's one of the finest anthropologists I know ✨💫

Blue book cover reading "Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations and Contestations over Sovereignty", Miriam Driessen

Introduction section of the book (available following the link on the publisher's website). It reads: "Introduction
Everyone had retreated to rest in the scarce shade when Benli Li mounted a loader parked on the construction site.! He was bantering with an Ethiopian laborer under his direction and dared him to step into the machine's bucket. The worker complied, perhaps hesitant to go against his expatriate manager's request or eager to prove his courage. The Chinese foreman ignited the engine. The machine shot forward. Within moments, the young man lost his balance and landed on the ground. Unable to bring the machine to a halt, Li drove over him.
On July 24, 2016, the Supreme Court of Amhara, Ethiopia, summonsed the twenty-six-year-old site supervisor to a hearing of its mobile bench at Debre Tabor, a mountain town in South Gondar. The state prosecutor demanded a prison sentence, charging Li with homicide caused by severe negligence.
Li, however, did not appear, and the local police failed to find him.
Months went by before the court arranged a new hearing.
Yet again, the police officers of Farta Wereda, the rural county in which the incident occurred, visited the Chinese camp and returned empty-handed. They requested another adjournment. "This time", they wrote in their note to the Supreme Court, "we promise that we will bring him to court."3
They failed yet again.
As procedure requires, the court then turned to the national press agency. It placed a public summons in the English-language newspaper The Ethiopian Herald and its Amharic counterpart Addis Zemen, calling"

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Feb 20

Was looking into some cartoons by Wang Dunqing王敦慶(1899-1990) for the book and stumbled upon this striking group portrait of 1930s Shanghai cartoonists from the BM collections www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Double-page coloured cartoon from 1936 Shanghai Manhua (上海漫畫). Group portrait of 1930s cartoonists. They are (left to right):
Bottom row: Wang Dunqing王敦慶 (1899-1990), Liang Baibo 梁柏波 (?1911-70)，Ye Qianyu 葉淺予 (1907-95), Huang Miaozi 黃苗子 (1913-2102)

Middle row: Wang Zimei 汪子美，Lu Fu 魯夫, Zhu Jinlou 朱金樓, Te Wei 特偉 (1915-2010), Huang Yao黃堯 (1917-87), Zhang Guangyu 張光宇(1902-65), Zhang Zhengyu 張正宇 (1903-76), Hu Kao 胡考 (1912-94), Lu Shaofei 魯少飛 (1903-95), Gao Longsheng 高龍生, Zhang Leping 張樂平 (1910-92)

Top row: Zhang Yingchao 張英超，Lu Zhixiang 魯志庠，Ding Cong 丁聰 (1916-2009), Cai Ruohong 蔡若虹 (1910-?)

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Feb 12

Didn't find your translation (yet) but a quick search for Mazanec and Han Yu yielded this translation in Hartman, tucked away in footnote 33 - thank you! eastasian.ucsb.edu/wp-content/u...

33.
34.
"Song Meng Dongye xu" i#lf/$ (Essay on Seeing Off Meng Dongye), in Liu and Yue, Han Yu wenji huijiao jianzhu, 9.982. For a full English translation of this essay, see
Hartman, Han Yü, 230-31.
"Jingtan changhe shi xu" i 7 fUi Fi (Preface to Poems Exchanged at Jingtan), in Liu and Yue. Han Yu wenii huiiao jianzhu. 10.1122.

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Feb 4

At least now we now why... A full (and inaccurate) OCR has been input as 主題 😅

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Feb 3

Also Hershatter's "Dangerous Pleasures Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai" has tons about methods re: descriptions, but also literary allusions, jokes, puns... (here p. 30-31)

This study traverses the (usually heavily guarded) border between fictional and nonfictional writing. 80 Literary sources are legitimate and fertile grounds for historical rummaging, perhaps particularly in tracing discussion about courtesans, since many writers of guidebooks and memoirs were also newspaper editors who produced novels set in the courtesan houses, some of them featuring famous courtesans by name." So freely did authors such as Zhang Chunfan, Bi Yihong, Sun Yusheng, Zhou Shoujuan, and Bao Tianxiao cross genres that their work could certainly be used to examine how representa-

tional norms for courtesans and customers were changed-how the historical record was shaped—by the conventions of genre. The present study makes some attempt at this, mostly across nonfictional genres; its use of fiction is fragmentary rather than comprehensive. I have drawn upon short stories and scandal fiction, but make only passing mention of the major courtesan novels for no other reason than that I feel insufficiently skilled to interpret them. I do, however, forage with great enjoyment in the writings of literary scholars about courtesan literature and the popular stories of love, crime, and scandal known as "mandarin duck and butterfly" fiction, to the benefit of this study.83

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Jan 30

Autre photo inattendue du jour : représentation de l'Avare de Molière par une troupe étudiante de l'université de Nankai à Tianjin, dans une traduction et mise en scène de Peng Chun Chang 張彭春 (1892-1957)

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Jan 30

Unexpected research picture of the day: Wellington Koo 顧維鈞 (1888-1985), then-Chinese ambassador to France... on a gondola in Venice in 1936

Black and white picture of a Chinese men, wearing a hat, sitting in a gondola.

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Jan 22

Feat. cette photo épique de moi en mode "tête flottante" avec les autres membres du jury, car j'avais déjà quitté Taiwan au moment de la dernière réunion du jury pour la sélection finale 😂

Quatre personnes tenant des livres, et un ordinateur

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Jan 22

- Capital et Idéologie en bande dessinée: D'après le livre de Thomas Piketty, de Claire Alet et Benjamin Adam, traduit par Chen Yung-Wei (陳詠薇) - Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire, de Maurice Halbwachs, traduit par Chen Hsiu-ping (陳秀萍)

Cinq livres (les finalistes) posés côte à côte sur un plancher de bois

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Jan 22

Félicitations à Hsieh Pei-chi 謝珮琪qui remporte le grand prix de traduction ATTF-BNP Paribas pour sa traduction en mandarin de "La vie secrète d’un cimetière" de Benoît Gallot ! La sélection finale a été rude, dans une shortlist de cinq traductaires de grand talent : www.rti.org.tw/fr/news?uid=...

Montage photo : à droite, la couverture de la traduction en mandarin (Taiwan) de La vie secrète d'un cimetière, à gauche une photo de la traductrice

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Jan 8

Reading the graphic novel adaptation of "Capitalisme et idéologie" (along with many other books) for a translation prize, and really enjoying looking at the layout and font choices (see 自由/平等/比例 in the bottom left corner)

Extrait de l'adaptation de Capitalisme et Idéologie, deux planches côte à côte, une en chinois, une en français.

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Nov 28

Les numéros sont disponible en intégralité sur Persée, ce qui permet de faire un peu d'archéologie amusante de la discipline... Comme dans le premier numéro, où André Lévy parle de l'excellente (et trop peu connue car épuisée) traduction du《孽海花》par Isabelle Bijon www.persee.fr/doc/etchi_07...

Couverture de roman : Fleur sur l'Océan des Péchés

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Nov 28

Pour les 40 ans d'Études chinoises, différentes générations de rédacteurs de la revue reviendront sur sa création et son histoire. Si vous n'étiez pas né dans les années 80 et avez toujours rêvé de savoir comment était le champ à ce moment-là... rendez-vous le 12 décembre à l'INALCO ! 👀

Table ronde : 40 ans de la revue Etudes chinoises
Avec les anciens responsables :
Hubert Delahaye, Vincent Durand-Dastès, Danielle Elisseeff, Frédéric Obringer, Delphine Spicq. Le vendredi 12 décembre 2025 à l'INALCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, Amphi 2

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Nov 12

Je serai encore à Taiwan, mais ne manquez pas le passage de l'autrice féministe taïwanaise Li Ang 李昂 à Nanterre le 3 décembre à l'occasion de la parution de l'adaptation en roman graphique du Banquet aphrodisiaque par l'artiste hongkongais Lau Kwong-Shing 柳廣成

Affiche "Le banquet aphrodisiaque" de Li Ang : du roman au manga
李昂《鴛鴦春膳》：從小說到漫畫
Une conférence de Li Ang 7.F
Organisée par Marie Laureillard (CRPM)
Contact : marie.laureillard@parisnanterre.fr
Amphithéâtre C2 (bâtiment Zazzo), Université Paris Nanterre Le mercredi 3 décembre 2025 à 15h30

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Nov 11

On #RemembranceDay, my yearly reminder that an estimated 140,000 Chinese men were sent to labour in Europe amidst hefty war casualties, and linking to what remains one of the most touching life stories I've had the privilege to research for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...

lace edged silk cushion cover, delicately embroidered with floral patterns and measuring about two feet long and wide, the piece features a calligraphed dedication in Chinese and, at its centre, a watercolour painting reading “Memories from Péronne” in French.

Coraline Jortay 喬海霖@qiaoj· Nov 10

Bonjour @franceuniversites.bsky.social, merci pour votre réactivité sur le colloque du Collège de France. Je découvre au passage que votre site géobloque les connexions depuis Taiwan ce qui empêche les collègues de l'ESR (notamment en UMIFRE) ici de vous lire - y a-t-il une raison pour ce blocage ?