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Cheung, Dominic, The Isle Full of Noises: Modern Chinese Poetry from Taiwan and Julia Lin, Essays on Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Download1989-08-01
This is a lengthy review article on two books about postwar Chinese language or Sinophone poetry from Taiwan. The article covers Dominic Cheung's capacious anthology of poetry translated into English and Julia Lin's scholarly work that deals chapter-by-chapter with a dozen important poets....
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1994-01-01
Su shi's writings are as vast as the sea, and his zen writings are more unique and profound.. Su shi's zen thoughts are inseparable from his own ups and downs of life experience and his own free and unrestrained character, more importantly, su shi has a profound background of Buddhism. Under the...
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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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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."
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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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2007-04-01
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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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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An Analysis of the Historical Development of Community in Li Qiao's (Lee Ch'iao) Wintry Night Trilogy
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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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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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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...