Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays which use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture. It addresses topics such as 20th-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; film, art, history, popular culture, and literary and cultural criticism and the geographies of migration and diaspora.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
