Reading Chinese transnationalisms : society, literature, film /
Reading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultural studies by examining Chinese transnationalism from a variety of perspectives. In interrogating social practices and literary and filmic texts which frequently cross national borders in imagining Chineseness,...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Ng, Maria, 1952- editor. Holden, Philip, 1962- editor. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2006. |
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| Retention: | digitized |
| Online Access: | Click here for full text |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden
- SOCIETY.
- 2. Hokkien-Philippines familial transnationalism, 1949-1975 / Edgar Wickberg
- 3. On eating Chinese: diasporic agency and the Chinese Canadian restaurant menu / Lily Cho
- 4. Putting the nation back into the transnational: Chinese self-fashioning and discipline in Singapore / Philip Holden
- LITERATURE.
- 5. Trans-East Asian literature: language and displacement in Hong Ying, Hikaru Okuizumi, and Yi Mun-yol / Kristjana Gunnars
- 6. Cultural and culinary ambivalence in Sara Chin, Evelina Galang, and Yoko Tawada / Petra Fuchinger
- 7. "The Tao is up": intertextuality and cultural dialogue in Tripmaster monkey / Jane Parish Yang
- 8. Overseas Chinese literature: a proposal for clarification / Laifong Leung
- FILM.
- 9. Crouching tiger hidden dragon: (re)packaging Chinas and selling the hybridized culture in an age of transnationalism / Jennifer W. Jay
- 10. Father knows best: reading sexuality in Ang Lee's The wedding banquet and Chay Yew's Porcelain / January Lim
- 11. The cinema of Tsai Ming-liang: a modernist genealogy / Mark Betz
- 12. Sentimental returns: on the uses of the everyday in the recent films of Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai / Rey Chow.