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..., a fascination with the relationship between humans and Sarawak's various “semi-wild” flora and fauna is paralleled by an attention to the relationship between the region's ethnic Chinese and its various Indigenous peoples—and particularly two subgroups of Sarawak's Dayak ethnicity, the “Sea Dayaks” (also known...

... tonal, affective, and narrative repertoire. The article cross-examines various English translations of Yu's sensationally received poem “Crossing China to Sleep with You” in order to demonstrate a comparative reading practice that strives for an intertexual dialogue among various translations of a given...

...Laura Vermeeren Abstract Online calligraphic handwriting has taken on various creative forms: from WeChat handwriting communities to digital teaching apps and downloadable calligraphic fonts. This article proposes to consider online calligraphy practice a means to connect to an imagined past...

... trailer posted on Bilibili, as important entry points for the study of audience participation in digital times. The digitally produced “ink painting–style Chinese aesthetics” of the film, its digital breakthrough as a “musical with Chinese characteristics,” as well as various forms of fan and anti-fan...

...Tong King Lee Abstract This article ponders writing and art that leverage the written script in Sinitic contexts, specifically where Sinographs are fetishized for creative and/or critical purposes—that is to say, they are turned into a spectacle as well as a method. The article analyzes various...

... that affords storytelling in video games: skin ( pifu 皮膚). Neither a playable character per se nor a player's avatar, skin constitutes a special digital milieu where China stories are told, debated, and their “goodness” performed. It traverses various composing strata of video games and distributes narrative...

..., 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 disrupts an ostensibly masculine historical narrative. An overlooked dimension of time that can be traced from the human characters complicates gender in tech-enabled new realms and cosmic-scale spaces, while alternation between and fusion of masculine and feminine qualities on various levels unsettles...

... a postdoctoral position with a duty to assist with my research. During her tenure as a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Zhang Chen fulfilled this duty in a most diligent and professional manner, producing rough translations of various narrative sections of this book. The degree to which I have benefited from...

... a critical distance from the then emerging ideology of class struggle and various forms of utopian vision. In this chapter, the author also accounts for poetry of liberal tendencies at this time, such as those written by Mu Dan, Zheng Min, Zheng Yunxie, and Lin Huiyin. Their poems tend to foster a kind...

... to different moments in Hong Kong history. The author finds that the ecocritical turn in Hong Kong literature has opened a new space for Hong Kong's postcolonial identity. The connections between utopias and the natural world, the reflections offered by nature at various historical turning points...

... colonialisms, where colonialism could be non-Western in the case of China and Japan. The Sinosphere is the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with various dynasties of the Middle Kingdom and the republican and communist regimes of modern China. From...

... the sacred and charismatic appeals of various political utopias—be they enlightenment, reform, or revolution. It is therefore unsurprising that the post-Mao cultural reflection ( wenhua fansi 文化反思) was consistently imbued with religious imaginaries, from the reenactment of neo-Confucianism to the nativist...

... moments exposes various potential threads of temporalities depending on interactions and interventions. The “spectral turn” in contemporary literature, evident in the works of Yu Hua and Wang Anyi, “can, in part at least, be attributed to a shared anxiety over amnesia that has led to what Andreas Huyssen...

... the discourses available to writers and intellectuals in the colonial period. The book is divided into two parts, the first concerning early modern literary production written in classical Chinese and the second tracing the transformation of Taiwanese literary production into Japanese and various forms...

... literature,” as Yingjin Zhang puts it, “reveals various positions of view and modes of engagement open to readers and scholars.” 8 To sustain such a multidirectional approach, contributors thus draw on not only Chinese and comparative literary studies but also Asian American studies, among others...

... they are translated, how they are received, and how all of these different refractions interact with one another” (17). Impeccably structured and theoretically coherent, the book consists of four chapters, each of which focuses on the various ways in which the work of a canonical author refracts along transpacific...

... of alternative avenues, dynamic reactions, and various predicaments of Chinese intellectuals amid the morasses of modernity. In this article, I will pose the following questions. First, how is Thirdspace central to the understanding of “the public sphere” in which individuals from different schools...

... with various musical instruments and vocal styles. To be successful, it had to be entertaining and funny. The genre offered considerably more freedom than literary fiction or journalism. As will be shown below, poets could switch to a different language to make controversial points. Our first author...

... the environmental sciences and research on the histories, cultures, values, and intuitions that have shaped human ecological agency in various forms around the globe.” 3 However, although it would be productive to turn inward and focus on humanity's own destructive behavior and to examine socioeconomic...