Book Reviews (East Asian Studies)
Items in this Collection
- 1"Chineseness" as a cultural reference point; polycentric; metacritical; comparative literature; post-European era; "untheorizable"; pro-feminist; "fluidity"; "city as text"; Chinese modernism; epistemological displacements; Yingjin Zhang; David Palumbo-Liu; Zhong Longxi; Mark Francis; Ann Marie Hsiung; Helen Chen; Greta Niu; John Yu Zou; Feng-ying Ming; Yingjin Zhang; Michelle Yeh, Eugene Eoyang; Xu Wei; DH Lawrence; Twin Peaks; Wang Anyi; Shijing; Chuci; Wenxuan.
- 1Contemporary Japanese literature; contemporary Taiwanese literature;
- 1Deleuze, Bazin, Boym, Benjamin; De Certeau; Abbas; Kracauer.
- 1February 28th Incident; White Terror;
- 1Fifth Generation Chinese filmmakers; Sixth Generation Chinese filmmakers;
- 1Han Dong; Cheng Guangwei; Yan Jun;
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2005-01-01
This is a review of the translation of Mo Yan's epic novel Fengru Feitun by Howard Goldblatt as Big Breasts and Wide Breasts. Lupke examines both the structure and theme of the novel as well as the quality of Goldblatt's translation. He also compares Mo Yan's writing to that of James Joyce,...
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2007-12-01
This is a review of June Yip's book Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary. The book is theoretically informed and focuses mainly in the works of two very important Taiwanese intellectuals: the filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien and the short story writer Huang...
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Lingzhen Wang, Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China
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This is a review of Lingzhen Wang's book Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-century China, an expansive analysis of both the practice of women writing autobiography and the narrative depictions of mother-daughter relationships. Wang's work considers many overlooked...
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2007-10-01
This is a review of Lloyd Haft's pithy book-length treatment of the poetry of Taiwan-based poet Zhou Mengdie. Zhou was a loner and a bit of an itinerant, having been forced to flee mainland China for Taiwan and having to leave his family behind. His poetry includes much loneliness and sorry but...
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2018-01-01
This is a review of Lucas Klein's translation of Xi Chuan's poetry in his collection Notes on the Mosquito.
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2011-03-01
This is a review of Maghiel van Crevel's robust, if not completely comprehensive, book-length study of Chinese poetry of the 1990s and 2000s. Van Crevel is one of the most authoritative scholars on contemporary Chinese poetry working in the Western world.
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Margaret Hillenbrand, Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990.
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This is a review of Margaret Hillenbrand's pathbreaking comparative study of contemporary Japanese and Taiwanese fiction. It examines the postwar literary scenes as part of a larger phenomenon, a sort of Neo-Colonial framework she calls Pax Americana, under the hegemonic umbrella of the United...
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2011-09-01
This is a review of Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi's edited volume on Chinese ecocinema. It briefly highlights important features in the large number of pithy essays contained in this volume.
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Sylvia Lin, Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
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This is a review of Sylvia Lin's important book-length consideration of literature and film from Taiwan that addresses issues of historical trauma such as the February 28th Incident of 1949 and the resulting White Terror period that lasted for several decades in Taiwan. Lin deals with some...
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Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant "Other" in Modern Chinese Literature
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This is a review of Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker's book Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant "Other" in Modern Chinese Fiction."