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Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese
diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for
immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising
Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the
Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels
by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi
Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and
Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer
Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV
shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online
literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these
stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial
boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly
impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a
transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of
homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and
bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora
studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography,
Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps”
offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no
matter where they are. Â
Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese
diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for
immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising
Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the
Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels
by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi
Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and
Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer
Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV
shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online
literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these
stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial
boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly
impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a
transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of
homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and
bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora
studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography,
Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps”
offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no
matter where they are. Â
In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and
re-connect with their "homelands" in literature, film, and visual
culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of
Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact
with space and place, as well as how theories of affect change our
thinking of diaspora. Questions of borders and border-crossing, not
to mention the public and private spheres, in diaspora literature
and film raise further questions about mapping and spatial
representation and the affective and geographical significance of
the push-and-pull movement in diasporic communities. The unique
experience is represented differently by different authors across
texts and media. In an age of globalization, in "the Chinese
Century," the spatial representation and cultural experiences of
mobility, displacement, settlement, and hybridity become all the
more urgent. The essays in this volume respond to this urgency, and
they help to frame the study of Chinese diaspora and culture today.
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