Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory - Reimagining a Field

"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

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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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chow, Rey Chow
• Con la collaborazione di: Rey Chow (Editore), Rey Chow (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.01.2001
• EAN: 9780822325840
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2584-0
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 164 mm x 246 mm x 31 mm
• Peso: 758 g
• Illustrazioni: 8 b&w photographs
• Serie: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; B2 Books and Asia Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic; B2 Books and Asia Pacific
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Chinesisch, China, Regionalstudien