... framework in which these stories of trans formation could be adequately appreciated. The second half of this article contextualizes them within the field of Sinophone postcolonial studies, demonstrating their broader historical import in terms of new analytic angles, new chronologies, and new theoretical...

... politics? Reading select Sinophone literary texts as allegories of area studies, in this case the Sinitic script as the fetish object, further illuminates the imperative to defetishize the area and bring race squarely into area studies. References Ashcroft Bill Griffiths Gareth Tiffin...

... us to rethink the history of Chinese literature in specific and East Asian literary history in general. This article tackles the thorny problem of Manchukuo literary formation by going through Shuimei Shih’s concept of sinophone and Chen Pingyuan’s notion of the multiethnic , only to conclude via...

... practices and political ideologies. He coedited the special issue “Japanese Cinema in the 1960s” for the journal the Sixties . Chialan Sharon Wang 's research interests include Sinophone film and literature, postcolonial literature, and gender studies. Her current research projects examine affect...

... . Groppe Alison M. 2014 . “ ‘Singlish’ and the Sinophone: Nonstandard (Chinese/English) Languages in Recent Singaporean Cinema .” In Sinophone Cinemas , edited by Yue Audrey Khoo Olivia , 147 – 68 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Hayuth Yehuda . 1982 . “ Intermodal...

... . Milwertz Cecilia . 2002 . Beijing Women Organising for Change: A New Wave of the Chinese Women’s Movement . Copenhagen : NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) Press . Pecic Zoran Lee . 2016 . New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections . London : Palgrave...

... Transformations in Sinophone Taiwan” makes several major and subsidiary arguments. His major theme, indebted to the scholarship of “the Sinophone,” is that the cultural effusion surround- ing historical transpersons beginning in the 1950s could only have...

...), Queer Sinophone Cultures (2013, with Ari Larissa Heinrich), Psychiatry and Chinese History (2014), Historical Episte­ mology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine (2015), and Perverse Taiwan (2016, with Yin Wang). His...

... Variety TV.” She does, how- ever, go at the established tradition of feminist scholarship on Sinophone media cultures and media subjectivities and gives it a poke even, a cosmetic surgery one could say. Working her way through the terms for gender...

... and Sinophone worlds, and apply to writers from other backgrounds who have dual linguistic expertise and transnational concerns.” Cheung restates in Emily Dickinson’s poetics, slant, her own aspiration: to set cultural theory in a “now,” a given...

... or transgres- sive vision of some authors.3 In this essay, I wish to suggest an analytical strategy that can attend to both aesthetics and politics, promote exchanges and reciprocal critique between Anglophone and Sinophone worlds...

..., the Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent, with scant scrutiny paid to the area my essay covers: the Pacific Rim or English-speaking Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines, plus Chinese-speaking Tai- wan and sinophone immigrant enclaves...

... 428 separate but subordinate to the Tokyo central government administered Taiwan.2 The fifty-year colonization of Taiwan, unlike the relatively brief occupations of Hong Kong, Shanghai, or other continental sinophone loca...

... of “America.” By the end of the novel, her character exposes the emptiness of this distinction. Chen begins the novel by setting up “China” as a Sinophone lifeworld of positions 18:2  Fall 2010 304...

... of the present.2 Qingshounü is a category fashioned by the parallel systems of commod- ity culture and commercial entertainment media. It belongs in a discursive constellation with other terms currently circulating in Sinophone media cul...