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Reading China against the grain : imagining communities / edited by Carlos Rojas and Mei-hwa Sung.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Chinese diaspora in literature.
- Chinese in literature.
- Foreign countries.
- China--In literature.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Genders, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books on global Chinese literature and culture. Mei-hwa Sung received her PhD in English from Brown University in 1983 and has taught at National Taiwan University, Tamkang University, and Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). She has a long record of professional service, including the editorship of Chung-Wai Literary Monthly and Tamkang Review. She has published essays and books on eighteenth-century English literature, gender studies, and Taiwan fiction.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface: Imagining China
- Introduction: My language is not my own: translation, displacement, and contemporary Chinese literature
- Part I Mainland China
- 1 Allegorizing history: Realism and fantasy in Mo Yan's fictional China
- 2 Unattainable maturity: Yu Hua's Cries in the Drizzle as an anti-bildungsroman
- 3 Frankenstein vs. Dracula: Romanticisms and the ideologies of poetry in contemporary China
- 4 Fanhua , global modernism, and the art of detachment
- Part II Border regions
- 5 Wolf Totem : An allegory of the future
- 6 Writing the motherland(s) on their borders: Kim Hak-ch'ŏl and his cultural criticism of Maoist China
- 7 Keeping to the margins: Macau literature and a pre-postcolonial "poetics of insignificance"
- 8 Explaining "graphs" and analyzing "characters": Zhang Guixing's novels and Sinophone literature's cultural imaginings and representational strategies
- Part III The global Chinese diaspora
- 9 Tales out of school: Campus fiction from Taiwan
- 10 The practice of annotation and translation in Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen Mysteries
- 11 From Chinese diaspora to Sinospore : Multispecies Chineseness and transmemory in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl
- 12 Xiaolu Guo's I Am China : On copulas and copulation
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 1000216519
- 9781000216615
- 1000216616
- 9781000216561
- 100021656X
- 9780367815158
- 036781515X
- 9781000216516
- Publisher Number:
- 99985889773
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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