The essays in this thought-provoking volume investigate ideas of
China and Chineseness by means of a broad range of texts,
languages, and contexts that surround what the editors call the
"various written Chinas" through history. Analyzing discourse of
civilization, geography, ethics, ethnicity, writing, and
differences about China-from within the country and from
outside-this work deliberately disrupts the boundaries that have
previously defined China as an object of study.
Sinographies" depends on a respect for the power of texts to shape
realities both backward and forward, to create or foreclose
possibilities not only of interpretation but of experience. To this
end, the essays examine topics as various as colonialism, literary
modernism, translation, anime, and Tibet. As a whole, the volume
imagines sinography as a new methodological approach to the study
of China, one that clears unexpected ground for new kinds of
comparative work.
Contributors: Timothy Billings, Middlebury College; Christopher
Bush, Princeton U; Rey Chow, Brown U; Danielle Glassmeyer, U of
Alabama, Birmingham; Timothy Kendall; Walter S. H. Lim, National U
of Singapore; Lucien Miller, U of Massachusetts; David Porter, U of
Michigan; Carlos Rojas, U of Florida; Steven J. Venturino, Loyola
U; Henk Vynckier, Tunghai U, Taiwan.
Eric Hayot is associate professor of comparative literature at the
Pennsylvania State University.
Haun Saussy is Bird White Housum Professor of comparative
literature at Yale University.
Steven G. Yao is associate professor of English at Hamilton
College.
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