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Reading Chinese transnationalisms : society, literature, film / edited by Maria Ng and Philip Holden.
LIBRA DS732 .R42 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Chinese.
- Transnationalism.
- National characteristics in literature.
- National characteristics in motion pictures.
- Chinese--Foreign countries--Social life and customs.
- Chinese.
- Motion pictures, Chinese.
- Chinese literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature (English).
- Chinese--Foreign countries.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- x, 238 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2006.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden
- SOCIETY.
- 2. Hokkien-Philippines familial transnationalism, 1949-1975 / Edgar Wickberg
- 3. On eating Chinese: diasporic agency and the Chinese Canadian restaurant menu / Lily Cho
- 4. Putting the nation back into the transnational: Chinese self-fashioning and discipline in Singapore / Philip Holden
- LITERATURE.
- 5. Trans-East Asian literature: language and displacement in Hong Ying, Hikaru Okuizumi, and Yi Mun-yol / Kristjana Gunnars
- 6. Cultural and culinary ambivalence in Sara Chin, Evelina Galang, and Yoko Tawada / Petra Fuchinger
- 7. "The Tao is up": intertextuality and cultural dialogue in Tripmaster monkey / Jane Parish Yang
- 8. Overseas Chinese literature: a proposal for clarification / Laifong Leung
- FILM.
- 9. Crouching tiger hidden dragon: (re)packaging Chinas and selling the hybridized culture in an age of transnationalism / Jennifer W. Jay
- 10. Father knows best: reading sexuality in Ang Lee's The wedding banquet and Chay Yew's Porcelain / January Lim
- 11. The cinema of Tsai Ming-liang: a modernist genealogy / Mark Betz
- 12. Sentimental returns: on the uses of the everyday in the recent films of Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai / Rey Chow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9622097960
- 9789622097964
- 9622097979
- 9789622097971
- OCLC:
- 69733157
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