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(En)gendering the Nation in Pai Hsien-yung's "Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream"
Download1992-09-01
This article traces the intricate web of allusions in Bai Xianyong's (Pai Hsien-yung) short story "Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream" to uncover how allusion helps constitute an imagined national community for the female protagonist in the story. It draws on notions of postcoloniality and...
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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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2008-09-01
This is a detailed review of Dr. Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang's book Literary Culture in Taiwan, a work that charts the path from literary developments in Taiwan under martial law to the post-martial law period when market forces began to prevail in the literary realm. Lupke emphasizes the theoretical...
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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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Documenting Environmental Protest: Taiwan's Gongliao Fourth Nuclear Power Plant and the Cultural Politics of Dialogic Artifice
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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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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...