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Nativism Overseas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Nativism Overseas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

This book examines five of the most influential Chinese-born women writers of the post-war era: Nie Hualing, Yu Lihua, Chen Ruoxi, Li Li, and Zhong Xiaoyang. They have become a dominating force in Chinese literature today, although they presently reside outside their homeland. This book raises a clear and consistent voice in line with the literature of exile and self discovery. As these writers talk of the 'root'--the self, and their social, cultural, and historical identities-- their varied voices share the unique characteristics of the literature of exile. These women, who continue to write in their native language, envision themselves as the literary mediators between their lost past and ...

Orientations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Orientations

DIVA critical examination of what constitutes the varied positions grouped together as Asian American, seen in relation to both American and transnational forces./div

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature

The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.

The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 815
Double Agency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Double Agency

In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. By decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts of betrayal rather than multiple allegiance. A central paradox informing the book—impersonation as a performance of divided allegiance that simultaneously pays homage to and challenges authenticity and authority—thus becomes a site for reconsidering the implications of Asian Americans as double agents. In exploring the possibilities that impersonation affords for refusing the binary logics of loyalty/disloyalty, real/fake, and Asian/American, Double Agency attends to the possibilities of reading such acts as "im-personations"—dynamic performances, and a performance dynamics—through which Asian Americans constitute themselves as speaking and acting subjects.

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 924

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by scores of China scholars from around the world. Volume II: Twentieth Century includes a far greater range of women than would have been previously possible because of the enormous amount of historical material and scholarly research that has become available recently. They include scientists, businesswomen, sportswomen, military officers, writers, scholars, revolutionary heroines, politicians, musicians, opera stars, film stars, artists, educators, nuns, and more.

Incorporations of Chineseness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Incorporations of Chineseness

Divided into two parts – the first a combination of historical introduction and theoretical analysis, the second consisting of comprehensive, in-depth, detailed close readings of representative literary works – this book is a unique bridge connecting the fields of Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies, and Asian Studies. Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to the transformations of Chinese identity in modern times, it reads Asian American literature and Asian American literary studies in the context of the historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.Drawing on feminist theory, philo...

The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 830

The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The twentieth century, 1912-2000
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 808
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 797

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

A biographical dictionary devoted to Chinese women, this text is the result of years of research, translation and writing from contributors from around the world. This volume focuses on the 20th century and includes sportwomen, film stars, musicians, politicians, artists, educators and more.