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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2000-02-01
This is a review of the volume China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature, edited by Yingjin Zhang. The essays grew out of one of the conferences of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) from the late 1990s. Although the essays are on widely...
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2007-04-01
This is a review of Yiyan Wang's single-author study of Jia Pingwa's literary works. It is a comprehensive work to the publication date (2006). Jia Pingwa is one of China's most important post-Mao authors with a stunning output of over a dozen major novels, not to mention poetry and prose essays....
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Zhen Zhang, ed., The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century.
Download2008-01-01
This is a review of the collection of essays The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, edited by Zhen Zhang. This is an excellent volume of essays that focus mainly on the filmmakers who came after the so-called Fifth Generation in China, most of...