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- 23Lupke, Christopher
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- 1"Chineseness" as a cultural reference point; polycentric; metacritical; comparative literature; post-European era; "untheorizable"; pro-feminist; "fluidity"; "city as text"; Chinese modernism; epistemological displacements; Yingjin Zhang; David Palumbo-Liu; Zhong Longxi; Mark Francis; Ann Marie Hsiung; Helen Chen; Greta Niu; John Yu Zou; Feng-ying Ming; Yingjin Zhang; Michelle Yeh, Eugene Eoyang; Xu Wei; DH Lawrence; Twin Peaks; Wang Anyi; Shijing; Chuci; Wenxuan.
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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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2005-05-01
Lupke, Christopher, Editor and Author
This edited volume explores the Chinese notion of "ming" (fate, command, allotted lifespan, life-giving force) in its various forms, in an array of texts, and over a the whole span of Chinese written history. The essays analyze instances of the term and concept "ming" in bronze inscription, the...
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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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1998-10-01
Wang Wenxing is one of the most stylistically innovative writers of fiction in Sinophone literature. His novel Family Catastrophe (Jiabian 家變) is structured like no other. Many critics have commented on this, but this article is the first to offer a reading of the structure that explains in...
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2000-07-01
Literature of the 1950s in Taiwan was decidedly ideological in nature and dominated by mainland Chinese emigres to the island whose work tended to focus on their previous experiences in mainland China as narrated through the lens of the Cold War. The decade saw a surfeit of long novels that I...
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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...