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Sinophone Studies - A Critical Reader (Paperback): Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, Brian Bernards Sinophone Studies - A Critical Reader (Paperback)
Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, Brian Bernards
R1,387 Discovery Miles 13 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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, this anthology richly demonstrates the transformative power of multiculturalism and multilingualism, and by examining the place-based cultural and social practices of Sinitic-language communities in their historical contexts beyond "China proper," it effectively refutes the diasporic framework. It is an invaluable companion for courses in Asian, postcolonial, empire, and ethnic studies, as well as world and comparative literature.

A Passage to China - Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan (Hardcover): Chien-hsin Tsai A Passage to China - Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan (Hardcover)
Chien-hsin Tsai
R1,173 R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Save R159 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, the first of its kind in English, examines the reinvention of loyalism in colonial Taiwan through the lens of literature. It analyzes the ways in which writers from colonial Taiwan-including Qiu Fengjia, Lian Heng, Wu Zhuoliu, and others-creatively and selectively employed loyalist ideals to cope with Japanese colonialism and its many institutional changes. In the process, these writers redefined their relationship with China and Chinese culture. Drawing attention to select authors' lesser-known works, author Chien-hsin Tsai provides a new assessment of well-studied historical and literary materials and a nuanced overview of literary and cultural productions in colonial Taiwan. During and after Japanese colonialism, the islanders' perception of loyalism, sense of belonging, and self-identity dramatically changed. Tsai argues that the changing tradition of loyalism unexpectedly complicates Taiwan's tie to China, rather than unquestionably reinforces it, and presents a new line of inquiry for future studies of modern Chinese and Sinophone literature.

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