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This book presents new and original essays that capture the enigmatic and intriguing personal and imagined worlds of Chinese writers and artists in diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
List of contents
Introduction. Chinese Writers and Artists in Diaspora: Constructing the Self Beyond and Without China 1. Diasporic Ground, National Parallels and Continental Divides: Resituating Chinese North American Identities in the 21st Century 2. Aesthetic Synergy in the Art of Tyrus Wong 3. Domestic Life as Allegory of Migration in Ha Jin's Waiting 4. Folding and Unfolding: Evolving Cultural Identity in Shen Wei's Modern Dance 5. The Home(land)less Self in Gao Xingjian 6. Dis/re-location of the Self in the Film Comrades: Almost a Love Story 7. Hong Kong Diasporans in Clara Law's Films Autumn Moon and Floating Life 8. The Female Self and the Mirror in Xiaolu Guo's Two Feature Films 9. Hong Ying: The Disowned Daughter Writing in Diaspora 10. Writing in Diaspora: Eileen Chang's Self Writing 11. The Language of Survival: Linguistic Migrations in the Age of Globalization 12. Twentieth-Century Chinese Prisonscape and Its French Exophone Articulation in François Cheng and Dai Sijie 13. Mirrored Self: Identity Construction in Sinophone Literature in Thailand
About the author
Kwok-kan Tam is Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor of English at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Lily Li is Lecturer in Chinese and Humanities at Eastern Kentucky University, USA.
