...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This article seeks to analyze the contested conditions of modern and contemporary Chinese utopia, as a political treatise, a literary genre, and a social imaginary. It takes a historical perspective from which to describe the rise of utopia in the late Qing era...

... of translation to China's struggle with modernity is to the field of modern China studies. This book, which in itself is an epitome of translingual practice in that Wang seemingly effortlessly navigates between sources in Chinese, English, and German, provides readers with the conceptual framework...

...Géraldine Fiss The Chinese Political Novel: Migration of a World Genre . Catherine Vance Yeh . CAMBRIDGE, MA : HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2015 . 429 PP. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 This book illuminates the “steep, short and international career...

... the methodological questions at the heart of that controversy are still very much alive as the protean field of Chinese studies continues reinventing itself in relation to theory. A still deeper reason is to rethink, via Bruno Latour, the status of fiction in the age of posttruth and fake news—a task incumbent upon...

...Cara Healey Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910 . Lorenzo Andolfatto . BOSTON : BRILL , 2019 . 238 PP. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Lorenzo Andolfatto's Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End...

...Melody Yunzi Li Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey . Chunmei Du . PHILADELPHIA : UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS , 2019 . 251 PP. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 This book guides us through Gu Hongming's eccentric odyssey with extensive readings of rich...

...Lucas Klein Abstract Examining how contemporary poets raised in China are looking at classical Chinese poetry from the Tang—in particular, the poetry and the figure of Li Bai 李白 (701–762)—this article questions the epistemological divide, common to scholarship, between premodern and modern Chinese...

..., a territorial gateway, a contact zone, a liminal terrain, a “state of exception,” and an imaginary portal. In eleven essays, this issue explores the intersection of ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and ecological dynamics that inform the cartography of the Chinese borderland, from the Northeast to the Southwest...

...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...

...Kyle Shernuk Abstract By interrogating the borderlands of the discipline of Chinese literature, this article argues that Chinese literary studies should recognize non-Sinitic-language literatures that engage with issues of Chineseness as proper objects of study. Prevailing frameworks in Chinese...

...Nick Stember [email protected] Manhua Modernity: Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn . John Crespi . Oakland : University of California Press , 2020 . 197 pp. Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Taking the humble manhua (cartoon) periodical as his subject...

... on the lives of Chinese people and the ways in which urban spaces, which are the result of a long-term ideologically and economically driven development paradigm, are rendered spectral and uncanny by contemporary Chinese writers. Specters serve as common tropes for social injustice, personal vendettas...

...Jie Guo [email protected] Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965 . Yu Zhang . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2020 . 294 pp. Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Yu Zhang's Going to the Countryside...

...Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker Abstract This article examines sociopolitical commentary in contemporary Chinese science fiction literature written by authors of the post-1980s generation. With a close reading of Hao Jingfang's 郝景芳 “Beijing zhedie” 北京折疊 (Folding Beijing, 2014) and Chen Qiufan's 陳楸帆...

..., in the process of which they use his image “to suit the ends of Japanese apologism, pan-Asianism, Chinese nationalism, and Sinophone Malaysian identity” (105). In this chapter, the archive figures prominently as a potential repository of clues to the location of the “corpus or corpse” of Yu Dafu, who, after...

...Jie Lu Abstract A reading of the cinematic representation of the global city in Chinese “new urban films” and in rural-migrant films leads this article to focus on the plurality and dialogism among different chronotopes produced collectively across these films. The article argues that the global...

...Ko Chia-Cian; Sun Pingyu Abstract As a Chinese-medium educational institution, Chung Ling High School (CLHS) in Penang enjoyed an illustrious reputation in the Malayan era. During the fall of Penang in World War II, the deaths of eight teachers and forty-six students from CLHS marked a painful...

...Shirley O. Lua Abstract This article surveys contemporary Filipino Chinese authors' interest in speculative fiction. Many of the authors of this burgeoning movement were included in the anthology Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology (2012), edited by Charles A. Tan...

...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...

... diplomatic intents through the translations. In 1935, Chinese literary critic Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書 (1910–1998) rediscovered British Sinologist, diplomat, and translator Thomas Francis Wade's (1818–1895) Chinese translation of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's (1807–1882) poem “A Psalm of Life,” which...