<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear friends and colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Please see the link below for an announcement of a Zoom talk hosted by the Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster at HKU. The Zoom time is in Asia &amp; US West Coast friendly zone. Registration is now open. Thank you!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Su Yun Kim</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">University of Hong Kong</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;background:rgb(255,254,252);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,124,111);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><p class="gmail-DFnp0 gmail-WloJR gmail-nsGWt gmail-_6qLM3" dir="auto" id="gmail-viewer-17u7s707" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:initial;margin:0px;min-height:auto;text-decoration-line:initial;text-decoration-color:rgb(42,124,111)"><span class="gmail-akGp8" style="box-sizing:inherit;font:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:initial;display:block"><em style="box-sizing:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:red;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents</span></span></em></span></p></div><div type="paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;background:rgb(255,254,252);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,124,111);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;background:rgb(255,254,252);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,124,111);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><p class="gmail-DFnp0 gmail-WloJR gmail-nsGWt gmail-_6qLM3" dir="auto" id="gmail-viewer-9j3hk709" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:initial;margin:0px;min-height:auto;text-decoration-line:initial;text-decoration-color:rgb(42,124,111)"><span class="gmail-akGp8" style="box-sizing:inherit;font:inherit;background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:initial;display:block"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font:inherit;background:rgba(0,0,0,0);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature</span></span></p></div><div type="paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;background:rgb(255,254,252);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,124,111);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);text-decoration-line:inherit;text-align:initial"> </span></div><h1 class="gmail-H3vOVf" style="box-sizing:inherit;background:rgb(255,254,252);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,124,111);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-weight:400;font-stretch:normal;font-size:40px;line-height:50px;font-family:&quot;rozha one&quot;,serif;word-break:break-word">The Sensational Proletarian: Affect and Leftist Cultures in Colonial Korea</h1><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> </div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;background:rgb(255,254,252);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,124,111);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><p class="gmail-DFnp0 gmail-WloJR gmail-nsG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