Sinophone Studies, 9780231157513
Paperback
This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introd…

Sinophone Studies

a critical reader

  • Paperback

    472 pages

  • Release Date

    21 January 2013

Summary

This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and American Sinophone literatures. By placing Sinophone cultures at the crossroads of multiple empires, thi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780231157513
ISBN-10:0231157517
Series:Global Chinese Culture
Author:Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, Brian Bernards
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Imprint:Columbia University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:472
Release Date:21 January 2013
Weight:658g
Dimensions:235mm x 159mm
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Critics Review

A valuable sourcebook introducing fundamental ideas and major intellectuals in this field…

A valuable sourcebook introducing fundamental ideas and major intellectuals in this field… Journal of Asian Studies

About The Author

Shu-mei Shih

Shu-mei Shih is professor of comparative literature, Asian languages and cultures, and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the author of, among other works, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific. Chien-hsin Tsai is assistant professor of modern Chinese literary and cultural studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Of Classics and Men: Lian Heng and the Writing of History and Poetry in Taiwan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Brian Bernards is assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California, where he specializes in modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema and postcolonial studies.

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