Chow / Harootunian / Miyoshi Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory

Reimagining a Field
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8016-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

An attempt to describe the new boundaries of the field of Chinese studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Weitere Mitwirkende

Laughlin, Charles A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 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

Über Autor(innen)

Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. Her books include Woman and Chinese Modernity, Writing Diaspora, Primitive Passions, and Ethics after Idealism.