Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field

Rey Chow

Published by Duke University Press 2000

Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory

Reimagining a Field

Rey Chow
Edited by: Harry Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi
With contributions by: Charles A. Laughlin

In the series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380160

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem Rey Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Narrative Subjectivity and the Production of Social Space in Chinese Reportage Charles A. Laughlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
Three Hungry Women David Der-wei Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Two Discourses on Colonialism: Huang Guliu and Eileen Chang on Hong Kong of the Forties Leung Ping-kwan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Beyond Cultural and National Identities: Current Re-evaluation of the Kominka Literature from Taiwan’s Japanese Period Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Wang Wenxing and the ‘‘Loss’’ of China Christopher Lupke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
If China Can Say No, Can China Make Movies? Or, Do Movies Make China? Rethinking National Cinema and National Agency Chris Berry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Look Who’s Talking: The Politics of Orality in Transitional Hong Kong Mass Culture Kwai-Cheung Lo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Bondage in Time: Footbinding and Fashion Theory Dorothy Ko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky Stanley K. Abe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
International Theory and the Transnational Critic: China in the Age of Multiculturalism Michelle Yeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm Ien Ang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Afterword: The Possibilities of Abandonment Paul A. Bové Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 8 b&w photographs

eBook

Published: January 4, 2001
ISBN: 9780822380160