Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader(Global Chinese Culture)

This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and American Sinophone literatures. By placing Sinophone cultures at the crossroads of multiple empires, this anthology richly demonstrates the transformative power of multiculturalism and multilingualism, and by examining the place-based cultural and social practices of Sinitic-language communities in their historical contexts beyond "China proper," it effectively refutes the diasporic framework. It is an invaluable companion for courses in Asian, postcolonial, empire, and ethnic studies, as well as world and comparative literature.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: What Is Sinophone Studies? Shu-mei Shih I. Issues and Controversies introduction by Chien-hsin Tsai 1. Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production (2007) Shu-mei Shih 2. On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem (1998) Rey Chow 3. Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm (1998) Ien Ang 4. Sinophone/Chinese: "The South Where Language Is Lost" and Reinvented (1998) Kim Chew Ng 5. Post-Loyalism (2007) David Der-wei Wang 6. Exiled to English Ha Jin II. Discrepant Perspectives introduction by Brian Bernards 7. Chineseness: The Dilemmas of Place and Practice (1999) Gungwu Wang 8. Cultural China: The Periphery as Center (1991) Wei-ming Tu 9. On the Margins of the Chinese Discourse (1991) Leo Ou-fan Lee 10. The Structure of Dual Domination: Toward a Paradigm for the Study of the Chinese Diaspora in the United States (1995) Ling-chi Wang III. Sites and Articulations introduction by Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai * Sinophone Hong Kong 11. Intra-Local and Inter-Local Sinophone: Rhizomatic Politics of Hong Kong Writers Saisai and Wong Bik-wan Mirana May Szeto 12. Things * Sinophone Taiwan 13. Taiwan Fiction Under Japanese Colonial Rule 14. Sinophone Indigenous Literature of Taiwan: History and Tradition Hsinya Huang 15. Writing Beyond Boudoirs: Sinophone Literature by Female Writers in Contemporary Taiwan Pei-Yin Lin 16. Of Guest and Host: Zhong Lihe * Sinophone Tibetan 17. On the Margins of Tibetanness: Three Decades of Sinophone Tibetan Literature Patricia Schiaffini 18. Danger in the Voice: Alai and the Sinophone Carlos Rojas * Sinophone Malaysian and Singaporean 19. Sinophone Malaysian Literature: An Overview Kim Tong Tee 20. Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun's Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture E. K. Tan 21. Plantation and Rainforest: Chang Kuei-hsing and a South Seas Discourse of Coloniality and Nature Brian Bernards * Sinophone New Zealand 22. Inverted Islands: Sinophone New Zealand Literature Jacob Edmond * Sinophone Manchu 23. Beneath Two Red Banners: Lao She as a Manchu Writer in Modern China Carles Prado-Fonts * Sinophone French 24. Found in Translation: Gao Xingjian's Multimedial Sinophone Andrea Bachner * Sinophone American 25. Generational Effects in Racialization: Representations of African Americans in Sinophone Chinese American Literature Sau-ling Wong 26. At the Threshold of the Gold Mountain: Reading Angel Island Poetry Te-hsing Shan 27. The Chinese Immigrant as a Global Figure in Lin Yutang's Novels Shuang Shen * Sinophone Latin American and Caribbean 28. Latin America and the Caribbean in a Sinophone Studies Reader? Ignacio Lopez-Calvo Glossary of Sinitic Terms Index, by ii

About the Author :
Shu-mei Shih is professor of comparative literature, Asian languages and cultures, and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the author of, among other works, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific. Chien-hsin Tsai is assistant professor of modern Chinese literary and cultural studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Of Classics and Men: Lian Heng and the Writing of History and Poetry in Taiwan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Brian Bernards is assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California, where he specializes in modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema and postcolonial studies.

Review :
A valuable sourcebook introducing fundamental ideas and major intellectuals in this field... Journal of Asian Studies