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The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and for audiences worldwide, particularly those of the Chinese diaspora.
List of contents
Part I Chinese TV Series Afar 1. Homing Laptop: Return to Reset via Chinese TV Series 2. Three
Bad Kids, One Loving Killer: Red China Noir in Blakean Symmetry 3. Gaming Reincarnation inside the Chinese Pressure Cooker: Reading, Streaming, Teaching
Reset 4. Suturing Old and New Chinas: Su Lun's Bug and Billionaire
Part II Asian Diaspora Fiction Anear 5. Bespoke Immigrants in
Nisei Murayama, Accented Kim, and Mama Tan 6. One Small Yellow Kid, One Giant Nobelist: Deracination of Outcault's Clown and Ishiguro's Clones 7. The 1.5-Generation Are Different from You and Me: Fake Real Homecoming and Half Surreal Montage of Asian America 8. George Leslie MacKay: A Missionary of the Master; A Master of Missions 9. Judy I. Lin's High Tea EXotica: Young Adult Orientalism to a T 10. Taiwan Shi
ft in Anglophone Fiction and Memoir
Part III Bifocals Off 11. Taiwan Meets Its Unmaker: Circum-I(sle) and gHost Films
12. Din Tao:
W¿ the Body Writ;
Wù the Body Rid 13. Horsey-Come-Lately: No Asian American Superhero Comics until Little Monkey
About the author
Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA. He is the author of over a dozen books, including
China Pop! (2024),
The Tao of S (2022),
Off-White (2020),
Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet (2017),
The Last Isle (2015),
Alienglish (2014),
Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity (2012),
Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture (2011),
East-West Montage (2007),
The Deathly Embrace (2000), and
Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures (1998).
Summary
The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and for audiences worldwide, particularly those of the Chinese diaspora.
