Search Results for Sinophone studies

...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This essay seeks to reconsider the current paradigm of Sinophone studies, which is largely based on theories from postcolonialism to empire critique. While Sinophone studies derives its critical thrust from confronting China as a hegemonic force, some approaches have...

...Cheow Thia Chan Abstract Recent studies on Singapore Chinese literature have employed analytical lenses such as the Sinophone and postloyalism, which are exogenous to the historical and everyday experiences in the region that produced the texts. This article proposes using the lens of the Chinese...

... lost its valence and transformed into yi . “Bordering” the Chineseness of China has been a far more mercurial experience than what would have been expected by dogmatic historians. The recent emergence of Sinophone studies has shed significant light on Chinese borderland studies, particularly...

... from the western Pacific and its adjacent littoral areas. As I have argued in this article, oceanic epistemologies empower Sinophone writers along lines similar to those proposed by Sinophone studies, all the while retaining flexibility—fluidity indeed—when confronted with issues such as diasporic...

... making shed light on the methods of literary studies? Admittedly Sinophone literature of some localities register sensitivity toward border dynamics more readily than other locations. For instance, engagement with political and geographical borders is a prominent theme in Sinophone literature from...

...Michael O'Krent Abstract This article rethinks the notion of the Sinophone through digital technology by using the Taiwanese videogame Word Game ( Wenzi youxi , Team9, 2022) as a case study. The digital Sinophone sees Chineseness as an act of positive identification claimed by engaging with digital...

... and Sinophone literary studies range from an implicit aversion to non-Sinitic-language texts to their explicit exclusion. The consequence, however, is that texts that would otherwise be considered works of Chinese literature based on their content and/or combinations of other factors are condemned...

... of the Sinitic-language spaces and has rapidly become a fast-growing field of study. The scope of Sinophone studies was first articulated by Shih as “the study of Sinitic-language cultures on the margins of geopolitical nation-states and their hegemonic productions” (emphasis added). 6 It aims to replace...

... China .” In Leibold and Chen , Minority Education in China , 27 – 44 . Schiaffini, Patricia . “ On the Margins of Tibetanness: Three Decades of Sinophone Tibetan Literature .” In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader , edited by Shu-mei Shih , Chien-hsin Tsai , and Brian Bernards...

... Studies panel with four presenters, for which I served as a discussant. Prior to my travels to attend the conference, when I mentioned the title of the panel to a colleague, my interlocutor asked with some bewilderment: what might “queer renditions” from late imperial China and the contemporary Sinophone...

...–World War II national development in Sinophone studies, I revisit the colonial legacies of ecological change and infrastructural development on the Malay Peninsula, and Mahua writers' literary-intellectual strategies for decolonizing the market and state. Also, since resource procurement chains long...

... particularism earlier, might reinforce a pre-established boundary of “difference” whose imprint of postcoloniality stems from the various norms and currents of the imperial project. 23 Chiang's critique of cultural particularism in Chinese and Sinophone studies sheds light on the Taiwanese author Wu...

..., and Brian Bernards, eds., Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader [New York: Columbia University Press, 2013], 93–116), pointing out the resonance between the Chinese word for migrant and loyalist, two distinct words that share the same pronunciation, yimin (移民╱遺民). Tsai builds on a term that Wang coins...

... Sinograph Sinophone studies spectacle fetish carnivalesque The Sinograph for Gu Wenda thus functions like a turnstile, providing a false impression of interlingual mediation between, on the one hand, classical Chinese poetry with all its connotations and baggage and, on the other hand, the mock...

... to the Red Guards, and still others to Sinophone writers in Southeast Asia. Does it make sense to call them all sinologists, especially when the younger generations consciously distance themselves from what they perceive to be an outmoded, even Orientalist way of studying China (recall Zhang's invocation...

... : Lingzi chuanmei , 2004 . Wong Meng Voon 黃孟文 and Xu Naixiang 徐迺翔 , eds. Xinjiapo huawen wenxue shi chugao 新加坡華文文學史初稿 [A Preliminary History of Sinophone Singaporean Literature]. National University of Singapore, Department of Chinese Studies and Global Publishing , 2002 . Wu Yeow Chong...

... China, though a few studies of minority Sinophone literature in China have been done from a postcolonial perspective. As Shih points out, “The relationship between narrative and empire from literary perspectives within the Qing, and the modern and contemporary consequences and iterations...

... and a moment in time can be made to linger on the pages of a book. 2 2 Parts of this discussion also inform my book-length study of space, time, and memory in urban Sinophone fiction; see Møller-Olsen, Sensing the Sinophone . 3 Bakhtin, “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel...

...Brian Bernards Abstract Following his 1925–1931 overland trek across southwestern China to colonial Burma, Ai Wu's 1935 Travels in the South (the author's canonical collection of autobiographical travelogue fiction) represents a Sinophonic detouring of the key literary impulses of the author's May...

... contemporary nations. First, David Der-wei Wang's “Of Wind, Soil, and Water: On the Mesology of Sinophone/Xenophone Southeast Asian Literature” proposes that Southeast Asian Sinophone literature may be approached via a paradigm of mesology, or “the study of the mutual relationships between living creatures...