Book Chapters (East Asian Studies)
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An Analysis of the Historical Development of Community in Li Qiao's (Lee Ch'iao) Wintry Night Trilogy
Download2007-12-31
This essay focuses on the notions of filiality, kinship, and uxorilocal marriage as represented in the first book of Li Qiao's novel trilogy Wintry Night.
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Documenting Environmental Protest: Taiwan's Gongliao Fourth Nuclear Power Plant and the Cultural Politics of Dialogic Artifice
Download2012-01-01
The period of Martial Law in Taiwan (1949-1987) was clearly not a setting that encouraged much criticism of the government or public works. This began to change in the early 1980s as the global environmentalist movement took shape and concerns were increasingly being raised over such things as...
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2007-01-01
This comprehensive biographical essay on Liu E discusses his entire life and all of his works with special attention paid to his seminal love Laocan Youji (The travels of Laocan).
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National Myth and Global Aesthetics: Reading Yeats alongside Chinese Poetic Modernism, pp. 210-234.
Download2019-01-15
One of the conundrums of modern Chinese literary studies is how to navigate the tortuous road between the particular cultural heritage from which it arises, the global phenomena of such trends as modernism, and the individual creative voice. Some adopt the strategy that indigenous cultures and...
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2012-10-01
This essay analyzes several of the maids depicted in The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber), demonstrating how through their behavior and what they say they actually reinforce the social hierarchy and status quo that underlie the social reality of Qing dynasty China. It highlights the...