... literature was born with a call for utopia. In 1902, Liang Qichao 梁啟超 (1873−1929) published Xinzhongguo weilai ji 新中國未來記 (The Future of New China) in the newly founded fiction magazine Xin xiaoshuo 新小説 (New Fiction). The novel opens with an overview of a prosperous China in 2062, sixty years after...

...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...

..., this article argues that he seeks to further detach literature from politics by calling for various transcendental dimensions of Chinese literary works beyond the realistic one and by paying intense attention to the literary descriptions of people's sin of complicity and their inner struggle. Liu's evocation...

...) and artistic circles (independent cinema and literature). This article looks at Hong Kong literature—Wu Xubin's 吳煦斌 (1949–) stories, Dung Kai-cheung's 董啟章 (1967–) literary experiments, and a recent edited volume about plants—to determine how ecotopian imaginaries and cultural identities are closely linked...

..., Science Fiction and Empire ; Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction ; Suvin, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction . Hundred Days' Literature continues conversations about the significance of long-overlooked late Qing genre fiction, following in the footsteps of David Der-wei...

... nationalist movements during the 1950s. Unlike Anwar's modernist poems that thrive in Indonesia, Wei Beihua's works were considered outliers during a period when realist literature was deemed an effective tool for social mobilization in postwar Malaya. Nonetheless, it is critical for us to recognize that Wei...

..., the Han writers in Mengjiang expressed their ethnic identity through Sinophone literature; at the same time, Sinicized Mongol intellectuals failed to revive Mongolian culture through the same vehicle. In the end, both the former Han despots and the new Japanese colonizers tried to instrumentalize Mongol...

... examines the boundaries of literature as it manifests itself in multiple forms of media and mediation. The Chinese equivalents to “borderland” include expressions such as bianjiang 邊疆, bianchui 邊陲, bianjing 邊境, and biandi 邊地, among others, all denoting the highly contested space in which people...

... Manchu, Duanmu makes unconventional choices of both themes and literary styles to imply a calculated embrace of a modern nation by an ethnic other. Through a close examination of the spatial-textual negotiations in the novel, the article delineates how a classic work of nationalist literature...

...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...

..., and gender. Chinese literature ghost chronotope post-socialist China urban Although the exhaustion and brutal exploitation of nature in the name of progress has been decried in recent decades, post-socialist China continues to use economic gains to justify the “sacrifices” of the majority...

...Nicolai Volland Abstract This article revisits Sinophone literature from the archipelagic region of the western Pacific to understand how thinking with and through the ocean shapes patterns of place-making and identity formation. Scrutinizing stories by Syaman Rapongan and Ng Kim Chew, the article...

... relevant, but it does suggest that the sentiments are not real anymore. What is the relevance of a story like this to Sinophone Malaya/Malaysia or Singapore literature? How do we discuss the politics of this specimen of Cold War culture? We could of course consider this story as a case study...

... 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Sinophone Malaysian Literature minority representation counter-discourse power Since Malaysia was incorporated in 1963, the ethnic Chinese community in Malaysia has lamented its marginalization by the Malay-Bumiputra elite. They have faced widespread...

... 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Sinophone mesology Nanyang literature xenophone There is an elephant in the theoretical room: while theory is purportedly without boundary lines, Sinophone theoreticians have, by and large, been eager to draw inspiration from anywhere but China. I contend...

...Jacob Edmond Abstract The term world literature is often used to name the small subset of literary texts that are translated into many languages and circulate globally. One might see the work of the widely translated, globe-trotting poet Bei Dao 北島 (pen name of Zhao Zhenkai 趙振開) as epitomizing...

...Shuang Shen Abstract The current state of Chinese literary studies is undergoing a process of re(b)ordering where the nation-state is no longer seen as the only acceptable framing for Chinese literature, and existing identificatory markers of Chinese literature—locality, language, ethnicity...

...Hang Tu Abstract This article offers a reconstruction of the intellectual dialogue between Kantian aesthetician Li Zehou 李澤厚 (1930–) and humanist literary critic Liu Zaifu 劉再復 (1941–). By comparing Li's ruminations on “cultures of pleasure” ( legan wenhua 樂感文化) and Liu's treatises on “literatures...

... of Europe and the United States and how Chinese academia repositioned itself in response to the adoption of Western criticism on Orientalism in the 1980s. This article also traces the institutionalization of oriental literature studies in modern China under the influence of both Soviet Russian and Western...