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Margaret Hillenbrand, Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990.
Download2008-11-01
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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National Myth and Global Aesthetics: Reading Yeats alongside Chinese Poetic Modernism, pp. 210-234.
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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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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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2013-04-01
The contemporary Taiwanese author Wang Ching-hsien (penname: Yang Mu) occupies a nearly unique position in modern literature from Taiwan as a native Taiwanese with complex affiliations to modernism, nativism, lyricism, literary scholarship, and prose. He is best known for his poetry but he is a...
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2022-12-20
This review article surveys three new books that take up, to one extent or another, the theme of filiality (xiao) in late imperial Chinese literature, especially vernacular fiction. The article provides context for and analyzes all three works in an effort to outline some of the key features of...
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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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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.
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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...