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Sylvia Lin, Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
Download2011-09-01
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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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...