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"Contributors." Stanley K. Abe, Ien Ang, Chris Berry, Paul Bove, Sung-cheng Yvonne Chang, Rey Chow, Dorothy Ko, Charles Laughlin, Leung Ping-kwan, Kwai-cheung Lo, Christopher Lupke, David Der-wei Wang, Michelle Yeh
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem / Rey Chow 1
Narrative Subjectivity and the Production of Social Space in Chinese Reportage / Charles A. Laughlin 26
Three Hungry Women / David Der-wei Wang 48
Two Discourses on Colonialism: Huang Guliu and Eileen Chang on Hong Kong of the Forties / Leung Ping-Kwan 78
Beyond Cultural and National Identities: Current Re-evaluation of the
Kominka Literature from Taiwan's Japanese Period / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 99
Wang Wenxing and the "Loss" of China / Christopher Lupke 127
If China Can Say No, Can China Make Movies? Or, Do Moves Make China? Rethinking National Cinema and National Agency / Chris Berry 159
Look Who's Talking: The Politics of Orality in Transitional Hong Kong Mass Culture / Kwai-Cheung Lo 181
Bondage in Time: Footbinding and Fashion Theory / Dorothy Ko 199
No Questions, No Answers: China and
A Book from the Sky / Stanley K. Abe 227
International Theory and the Transnational Critic: China in the Age of Multiculturalism / Michelle Yeh 251
Can One Say No to Chineseness: Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm / Ien Ang 281
Afterword: The Possibilities of Abandonment / Paul A. Bové 301
Index 317
Contributors 325
About the author
Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. Her books include Woman and Chinese Modernity, Writing Diaspora, Primitive Passions, and Ethics after Idealism.
Summary
Includes essays which uses critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualisation of the field of modern Chinese studies itself.
