Sinophone studies : a critical reader /

This Definitive Work Casts Sinophone Studies as the Study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, len Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing...

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Other Authors: Shih, Shu-mei, 1961-, Tsai, Chien-hsin, 1975-, Bernards, Brian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Series:Global Chinese culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Issues and Controversies / Chien-hsin Tsai Tsai, Chien-hsin 17
  • 1 Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production / Shu-mei Shih Shih, Shu-mei 25
  • 2 On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem / Rey Chow Chow, Rey 43
  • 3 Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm / Ien Ang Ang, Ien 57
  • 4 Sinophone/Chinese: "The South Where Language Is Lost" and Reinvented / Kim Chew Ng Ng, Kim Chew 74
  • 5 Post-Loyalism / David Der-wei Wang Wang, David Der-wei 93
  • 6 Exiled to English / Ha Jin Jin, Ha 117
  • Part II Discrepant Perspectives / Brian Bernards Bernards, Brian 125
  • 7 Chineseness: The Dilemmas of Place and Practice / Gungwu Wang Wang, Gungwu 131
  • 8 Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center / Wei-ming Tu Tu, Wei-ming 145
  • 9 On the Margins of the Chinese Discourse / Leo Ou-fan Lee Lee, Leo Ou-fan 158
  • 10 The Structure of Dual Domination: Toward a Paradigm for the Study of the Chinese Diaspora in the United States / Ling-chi Wang Wang, Ling-chi 170
  • Part III Sites and Articulations / Brian Bernards Bernards, Brian, Chien-hsin Tsai Tsai, Chien-hsin 183
  • 11 Intra-Local and Inter-Local Sinophone: Rhizomatic Politics of Hong Kong Writers Saisai and Wong Bik-wan / Mirana May Szeto Szeto, Mirana May 191
  • 12 Things, Common/Places, Passages of the Port City: On Hong Kong and Hong Kong Author Leung Ping-kwan / Rey Chow Chow, Rey 207
  • 13 Taiwan Fiction Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 / Chien-chung Chen Chen, Chien-chung 227
  • 14 Sinophone Indigenous Literature of Taiwan: History and Tradition Hsinya Huang 242
  • 15 Writing Beyond Boudoirs: Sinophone Literature by Female Writers in Contemporary Taiwan / Pei-Yin Lin Lin, Pei-Yin 255
  • 16 Of Guest and Host: Zhong Lihe, Hakka, and Sinophone Hospitality / Chien-hsin Tsai Tsai, Chien-hsin 270
  • 17 On the Margins of Tibetanness: Three Decades of Sinophone Tibetan Literature / Patricia Schiaffini Schiaffini, Patricia 281
  • 18 Danger in the Voice: Alai and the Sinophone / Carlos Rojas Rojas, Carlos 296
  • 19 Sinophone Malaysian Literature: An Overview / Kim Tong Tee Tee, Kim Tong 304
  • 20 Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun's Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture / E. K. Tan Tan, E. K. 315
  • 21 Plantation and Rainforest: Chang Kuei-hsing and a South Seas Discourse of Coloniality and Nature / Brian Bernards Bernards, Brian 325
  • 22 Inverted Islands: Sinophone New Zealand Literature / Jacob Edmond Edmond, Jacob 339
  • 23 Beneath Two Red Banners: Lao She as a Manchu Writer in Modern China / Carles Prado-Fonts Prado-Fonts, Carles 353
  • 24 Found in Translation: Gao Xingjian's Multimedial Sinophone / Andrea Bachner Bachner, Andrea 364
  • 25 Generational Effects in Racialization: Representations of African Americans in Sinophone Chinese American Literature / Sau-ling C. Wong Wong, Sau-ling C. 375
  • 26 At the Threshold of the Gold Mountain: Reading Angel Island Poetry / Te-hsing Shan Shan, Te-hsing 385
  • 27 The Chinese Immigrant as a Global Figure in Lin Yutang's Novels / Shuang Shen Shen, Shuang 397
  • 28 Latin America and the Caribbean in a Sinophone Studies Reader? / Ignacio López-Calvo López-Calvo, Ignacio 409.