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2018-01-01
This is a review of Lucas Klein's translation of Xi Chuan's poetry in his collection Notes on the Mosquito.
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2011-03-01
This is a review of Maghiel van Crevel's robust, if not completely comprehensive, book-length study of Chinese poetry of the 1990s and 2000s. Van Crevel is one of the most authoritative scholars on contemporary Chinese poetry working in the Western world.
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Margaret Hillenbrand, Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990.
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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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Middle Kingdom on the Margins: The Perilous Journey of Chinese into the MLA and other Radical Ruminations
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A polemic on the need to decolonize the implicit apartheid system of the Modern Language Association, which although it claims the entire territory of "modern languages" and all that that entails, is almost entirely dominated by European languages and mainstream English/American studies. In this...
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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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2011-09-01
This is a review of Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi's edited volume on Chinese ecocinema. It briefly highlights important features in the large number of pithy essays contained in this volume.
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2016-10-01
This review article provides an extended analysis of P. Steven Sangren's book Filial Obsessions: Chinese Patriliny and Its Discontents (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), an extended reinterpretation of the Chinese notion of filiality and concurrent analysis of the Ming dynasty novel Fengshen Yanyi...
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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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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...
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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...