Jiahe Mei

How do we approach perceptual disabilities not as exceptions but as conditions for reimagining sensory politics and aesthetics? This project explores this question by reexamining the sensory politics of modern Chinese literature through the lens of perceptual disabilities. Drawing on disability and media studies, it curates a counter-lineage of writers engaged with perceptual disabilities, situating their works within a constellation of media technologies, physiological knowledge, and disability pedagogy. Through this intermedial counter-history, this project explores how sensory differences—rather than the Enlightenment ideal of "common sense"—enable alternative modes of literary modernity and political agency in semi-colonial China.