...Shannon M. Cannella Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900–1959 Mingwei Song Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2015 . 379 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 The scene is May Day, 1953 and tens of thousands of enthusiastic...

...Yu Zhang Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China Tie Xiao Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2017 . 286 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 The crowd—be it a politicized cohesive body of the people as a revolutionary force of historical...

...Clara Iwasaki A Passage to China: Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan Chien-Hsin Tsai Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2017 . 356 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 A Passage to China by Chien-Hsin Tsai focuses on the literary...

...Yingjin Zhang Abstract This article examines ways of seeing China in Isaac Julien's nine-screen film installation Ten Thousand Waves (2010), which represents a migratory aesthetic based on evocative translocality and mobile spectatorship. As Julien reconstructs the legend of compassionate Mazu...

...Chun-Ting Chang Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi and Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late Qing China Ellen Widmer Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . 329 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 In this book examining the transition from traditional...

...Wendy Larson Abstract In 1963, China Youth published letters from youth on the topic of happiness. While some agreed that following the model of self-sacrifice exemplified by Lei Feng was the only way to be a happy revolutionary, others brought up contradictions in the approach to happiness...

... by both commentators and practitioners. However, BL's increasing interweaving with homosexuality and sexual minorities in China requires scholars to reread and redefine BL practice in its Chinese context. This article discusses some of the recent transformations of the BL genre in China, examines...

... the Chinese world of letters identified China with the Orient when China attempted to accommodate itself to a Eurocentric historical narrative in the 1920s. The article further investigates how the Chinese achieved a strategic alliance with Soviet Russia in the 1950s to confront the Western cultural centers...

..., as the emergence and resurgence of old and new media constantly revise public perceptions and intellectual landscapes. Continuing the discussion of digital remediations, chapter 4 focuses on the Tank Man photograph and its iconic Tiananmen legacy in China. The chapter's core case studies include reincarnations...

...Catherine Swatek The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality . Ling Hon Lam . NEW YORK : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2018 . 246 PP. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Lam Ling Hon's 林凌瀚 exploration of Chinese discourses...

...Jerôme de Wit Abstract Korean-Chinese literature after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) predominantly eulogized the lives of farmers. Such literature portrayed farmers' lives and how, through their work, they could transform both their own livelihoods and that of the nation...

...Mark Bender Abstract Since the 1980s ethnic minority poets writing in the borderlands of Southwest China and Northeast India emerged on the world stage from within currents of dramatic environmental, political, economic, and demographic change, cresting in momentum by the 2010s. Within...