...Chialan Sharon Wang Remapping the Sinophone: The Cultural Production of Chinese-Language Cinema in Singapore and Malaya before and during the Cold War . By Wai-Siam Hee . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2019 . 242 pp. ISBN: 9789888528035 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

... to the sinophone concept. Although the authors here clearly fall within the rubric of Sinitic authors outside of China, their literary attention clearly faces back toward connections with China and Taiwan rather than outward towards other sinophone realms. This volume breaks new ground in several respects...

...Mark McConaghy Abstract This article examines the New Taiwan Series ( NTS ), a journal published between 1947 and 1948 in Hong Kong by Taiwanese socialists who fled the island following the 228 Uprising. It does so to intervene in ongoing debates in the field of Sinophone studies. While two major...

...Zhiyi Yang Abstract In recent decades, highly heterogeneous literary and artistic articulations harking back to China's classical past have gained increasing currency in the global Sinophone space and cyberspace. Instead of dismissing them as “fetishisms” or authenticating them as “Chinese...

...Guangtian Ha Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction . By Astrid Møller-Olsen . Amherst, NY : Cambria Press , 2022 . xii, 310 pp. ISBN: 9781621967002 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Modern cities are odd beings, and each modern nation...

...Feng Lan Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader . Edited by Shu-mei Shih , Chien-Hsin Tsai , and Brian Bernards . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . 472 pp. $120.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 The recent...

...Alison M. Groppe Theoretically, Tan's astute engagement with Shu-mei Shih's conceptualization of the sinophone stands out. Tan prods us to see sinophone identities, identity formation, and the sinophone relational network as translational, thus highlighting aspects of the sinophone that argue...

...Yingjin Zhang Despite her as yet unsettled conceptualization of the Sinophone, Shu-mei Shih is commended for challenging us to rethink geocultural politics in interdisciplinary studies. For its provocative arguments and readings, Visuality and Identity will remain a key reference...

...Dian Dian Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific is a remarkable contribution to interdisciplinary fields of cultural history, (trans)gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, and area studies focusing on Sinophone Pacific areas. Demonstrating several examples for doing different types...

...Wayne C. F. Yeung Abstract This article examines three Sinophone cultural texts to suggest that Sinophone studies can draw from its affinities with historical and linguistic studies to question the conceptual boundary of “premodern” imperial China. Through case studies of Hou Hsiao-hsien from...

...Chloe Estep Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan: Becoming Sinophone . By Phyllis Yu-Ting Huang . Abingdon, UK : Routledge , 2021 . 165 pp. ISBN: 9780367458317 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 What can literature tell us about the ways “mainlander...

...Tzu-hui Celina Hung Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora . By Jing Tsu . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2010 . xii, 306 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 The rapidly growing field of sinophone studies has gained...

...Zhou Hau Liew In recent publications on Sinophone literature, perhaps none has taken as close an analytical scale as Malaysian Crossings . This is both its strength and limit, as a specific place —the territory delineated as “Malaysia” today—becomes its main frame of reference for a myriad...

... By exploring the figure of the sex worker as portrayed and represented in literature, films, and new media circulated within the United States, China, and Sinophone communities, Lily Wong's Transpacific Attachments uses a transpacific and translingual perspective to reconfigure the notion of Chineseness...

...” modernity. Critical engagement with Lu Xun's concept of “in-betweenness” has located it—so to speak—in the structure of developmental history. In ways that I think resonate with, and can be understood in terms of, Yeung's conceptualization of Sinophone poetics, Ma's interpretation of Lu Xun's “object...

...). Davies insists that Derrida is cited not as representative but “for contrastive effect, as an example of a highly self-reflexive style whose influence remains negligible in Sinophone critical discourse” (p. 21), but the effect often still boils down to the implicit lesson that Chinese criticism...

... and integration that took place in the People's Republic of China and the Sinophone world. Moreover, “neoliberal postsocialism,” characterized by flexible ambiguity, can also be used to describe a global condition brought on both by the end of socialism in the Eastern Bloc and by the end of capitalism...

... “indigenous” communities while the perception of China as a new imperial power generates new forms of suspicion. In a recent discussion of sinophone literatures, Shu-mei Shi has described the category as disruptive of both nation and diaspora. 1 While Anglophone, Ho's text is similarly troublesome...

... contemporary “overseas Chinese avant-garde artists” (p. 106). Part III, “Sinophone Cinema and Postsocialist Television,” comprises three chapters. In the eclectic chapter 6, Lu begins to distance himself from the term “transnationalism,” with which he is frequently associated. Chapter 7 convincingly...

.... In fact, Kipnis provides enough fundamental cultural background so that readers who do not have any prior background in Sinophone cultures in general and in the PRC in particular can comprehend the description and analysis. I can speak on this from personal experience, since I recently used this book...