Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction Ghost Narratives and the Contouring of Invisible Realms

Chao explores Sinophone literature as a complex field that navigates the intersections of Sinitic languages, global literary systems, and China-centered perspectives. He posits that Sinophone literature, through ghost narratives, provides a platform to critically examine modernity, transgress boundaries and challenge epistemologies.

About the author

Di-kai Chao is a postdoctoral researcher at East China Normal University, China. His research focuses on ghost narratives in contemporary Sinophone fiction and the discourse on the "lyrical tradition" in Chinese literature.

Product details

• Authors: Di-kai Chao, Di-Kai (Univ. Of Canterbury Chao
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.04.2025
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781032792682
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279268-2
• Pages: 186
• Series: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature
• Subjects: Sociology, FICTION / Literary, Taiwan, FICTION / Ghost, Society & culture: general, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, transnational identity, cultural memory analysis, Asian diaspora literature, postcolonial literary theory, Sinophone studies, spectral narratives in modern Chinese literature, local knowledge production