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.

List of contents

Introduction: Ghostly Sinophone Articulation within Multiple Power Networks
1. Worlding Taiwaneseness: Sinophone Taiwan Ghost Narratives and Their Post-colonial Agenda
2. Returning to Disappearance: Ghost Narratives in Sinophone Hong Kong
3. Negotiation in Post-Chineseness: On Ghost Narratives in Sinophone Malaysian Literature
4. Fabulating China's Stories: Dystopian Ghost Narratives and Peach Blossom Spring in Fiction from the Chinese Mainland
Conclusion

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.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032792682
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279268-2
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); 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