... on the Chinese at the expense of repetition's other iterations. Thus, I trace Edmond's argument giving roughly equal weight to each chapter. Before I do, however, a word about mimetic desire . Edmond explains his use of the term: “The center copies the periphery as much as the periphery emulates the center...

... 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...

... on such and such as method, as this special issue invites us to do, is to put border thinking in action. In a recent iteration of such border thinking, exemplified in the Taiwan scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen's 陳光興 proposal of Asia as method, the goal is to reorient a “West and the rest” framework in the direction of an inter-Asia...

... Benjamin and Lu Xun is by no means accidental but a consequence of their common debt to Romantic idealism. Advocated by Benjamin and other Frankfurt school critics, substantial rationality, a form of spiritual correspondence between nature and man, seems just another iteration of the Romantic conception...

... Singer's appeal for animal liberation in the early twenty-first. Whereas Singer stressed the need for articulating the moral poverty of racism and sexism to clarify why speciesism was similarly unethical, Wolfe expresses a kind of exhaustion with the iterative elaboration of categories of social difference...

... dissimilar where Black and Asian lives become iterative in the figure of the ajumma. Ajummas exist both within and around humanity, marked by their postornamental conditions, which often reduce them to the state of being expired. These middle-aged and senior individuals' volition and humanity as working...

...figure 5 . Wang Qingsong: “Poisonous Spider,” 2005. An earlier iteration of the work entangles a migrant worker at the heart of the web. ...

... recently, new iterations of the project debuted at a 2021–2022 exhibition titled Staggered Observations of a Coast at the STPI Gallery in Singapore, which featured works from the SEASTATE project alongside others from two of Lim's newer series, titled Staggered Observations and Zone of Convergence...

.... I am grateful to Prof. Tan for his guidance on the initial iteration of this article and his constant encouragement afterward. I am further indebted to Patricia Sieber, our discussant, for her insightful suggestions on the version I presented at the AAS panel. I thank Li Guo and Jie Guo, the panel...

... Xiuhua's “Crossing” has witnessed multiple iterations of English translations. This article focuses on a comparative reading of two primary versions: one was rendered by Fiona Sze-Lorrain in her 2021 book-length translation of Yu's poetry and nonfiction and the other by Elise Huerta and myself in a 2018...

..., “China's Selfie Obsession.” The Meitu regime, which is global, is something of a mass-market, digital-age iteration of the local, artisan-crafted consumer wish-fulfillment fantasies seen in Feng Xiaogang's film Jiafang yifang 甲方乙方 (Dream Factory, 1997). 32 I agree with James W. Cook...

.... It is not my intention to offer a comprehensive historical survey of all the adaptations of the novel but, rather, to trace the transformation of the female voice from its original first-person form in the American novel to later iterations mediated by radio and film and performed by Ngai Mun both...

... innovative and experimental, with extreme cases that count as nonsensical by conventional standards—but effectively nonsensical. As a particular iteration of the creative imperative, poetry invites the translator time and again to choose which rule they wish to break, without the prospect of “getting...

... final iteration in “My Lover,” folded into a multiethnic and translational contribution to leftist internationalism that is as uniquely Burmese as it is Chinese. Had Ai Wu not been deported, it is quite possible that he—like some of his fellow southbound writers and journalists in his “street university...

... and Disenchantment , 98 . 42 Ding Ling, Ding Ling quanji , 69 ; Barlow, I Myself Am a Woman , 73 . 43 The short story structured as a diary is itself an imported literary form, with its first iteration in Lu Xun's 魯迅 (1881–1936) 1918 Kuangren riji 狂人日記 (Diary of a Madman). Of course...