Chinese Women Writers In Diaspora

Author : Amy Tak-yee Lai
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443808422

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Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora by Amy Tak-yee Lai Pdf

The mention of Chinese women writers in diaspora immediately brings to mind Jung Chang (b. 1952) and her Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991), which won the 1992 NCR book award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award, and got officially banned in China. Despite its popular reception and crucial acclaim, Chang’s work has invited a lot of attacks. Among the most common is the contention that it merely focuses on the experience of the privileged and does not tell the reader what other memoirs have not already revealed. Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora is a pioneering study that focuses on four Chinese women writers currently living in the United States and England, whose works have been popularly received—and are in many cases, highly controversial—but have received little scholarly attention: Xinran (b. 1958), Hong Ying (b. 1962), Anchee Min (b. 1957), and Adeline Yen Mah (b. 1937). The chapters illuminate how Xinran constructs her identity and her fellow Chinese women in dialectics of self and other; how Hong Ying evokes cycles of return that blend Western and Chinese philosophical concepts; how Min employs images of theatre and theatrical conventions to depict the entrapment and transgression of her protagonists; and how Mah transliterates and appropriates both Western and Chinese fairy tale motifs to fashion her Chinese feminist utopia. While Jung Chang’s memoir seems confining, it has aroused interest in the genre of Chinese female autobiography, and Chinese women writers who live and write between cultures.

Author : Sharon K. Hom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135599973

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Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora by Sharon K. Hom Pdf

The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor, journalist, historian, poet, choreographer, film scholar, tai-chi expert, translator, writer, literary scholar.

Author : Sharon K. Hom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135599904

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Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora by Sharon K. Hom Pdf

The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor, journalist, historian, poet, choreographer, film scholar, tai-chi expert, translator, writer, literary scholar.

Author : Begoña Simal González,Elisabetta Marino
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 3825882780

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Transnational, National, and Personal Voices by Begoña Simal González,Elisabetta Marino Pdf

"The growing heterogeneity of Asian American and Asian diasporic voices has also given rise to variegated theoretical approaches to these literatures. This book attempts to encompass both the increasing awareness of diasporic and transnational issues, and more ""traditional"" analyses of Asian American culture and literature. Thus, the articles in this collection range from investigations into the politics of literary and cinematic representation, to ""digging"" into the past through ""literary archeology"", or analyzing how ""consequential"" bodies can be in recent literature by Asian American and Asian diasporic women writers. The book closes with an interview with critic and writer Shirley Lim, where she insightfully deals with these ""transnational, national, and personal"" issues. Elisabetta Marino is Assistant Professor of English literature at the University of Rome ""Tor Vergata"". Her main fields of interest are Asian American and Asian British literature, children's literature, Italian American literature. Begoña Simal is Assistant Professor of English literature at the Universidade da Coruña, Spain. She has published critical work on both Asian American literature and comparative ""cross-ethnic"" studies. "

Author : Fang Tang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498595476

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Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women's Literature by Fang Tang Pdf

This book explores the use of literary fantasy in the construction of identity and ‘home’ in contemporary diasporic Chinese women’s literature. It argues that the use of fantasy acts as a way of undermining the power of patriarchy and unsettling fixed notions of home. The idea of home explored in this book relates to complicated struggles to gain a sense of belonging, as experienced by marginalized subjects in constructing their diasporic identities — which can best be understood as unstable, shifting, and shaped by historical conditions and power relations. Fantasy is seen to operate in the corpus of this book as a literary mode, as defined by Rosemary Jackson. Literary fantasy offers a way to rework ancient myths, fairy tales, ghost stories and legends; it also subverts conventional narratives and challenges the power of patriarchy and other dominant ideologies. Through a critical reading of four diasporic Chinese women authors, namely, Maxine Hong Kingston, Adeline Yen Mah, Ying Chen and Larissa Lai, this book aims to offer critical insights into how their works re-imagine a ‘home’ through literary fantasy which leads beyond nationalist and Orientalist stereotypes; and how essentialist conceptions of diasporic culture are challenged by global geopolitics and cultural interactions.

Author : Pin-chia Feng
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643108319

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Diasporic Representations by Pin-chia Feng Pdf

In Diasporic Representations, author Pin-chia Feng examines the stratification of various diasporic subjectivities through close reading fiction by Chinese American women writers of different social and class backgrounds. Deploying a strategy of "attentive reading", Feng engages the intersecting issues of historicity, spatiality, and bodily imagination from diasporic and feminist perspectives to illuminate the dynamics of deterritorialization and reterritorialization in Chinese American novels in this transnational age. The authors studied include Diana Chang, Edith Eaton, Yan Geling, Nieh Hualing, Gish Jen, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Aimee Liu, Fae Myenne Ng, Sigrid Nunez, Han Suyin, and Amy Tan.

Author : Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1592650430

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Hua Song by Suchen Christine Lim Pdf

Photographic album of the origins and development of Chinese communities around the world.

Author : Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816631468

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Spaces of Their Own by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang Pdf

How are the public and political lives of Chinese women constrained by states and economies? And how have pockets of women's consciousness come to be produced in and disseminated from this traditionally masculine milieu? The essays in this volume examine the possibilities for a public sphere for Chinese women, one that would both emerge from concrete historical situations and local contexts and cut across the political boundaries separating the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the West. The challenges of this project are taken up in essays on the legacy of state feminism on the Mainland as contrasted with a grassroots women's movement challenging the state in Taiwan; on the role of the capitalist consumer economy in the emerging lesbian movement in Taiwan; and on the increased trafficking of women as brides, prostitutes, and mistresses between the Mainland and wealthy male patrons in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The writers' examples of masculine domination in the media include the reformulation of Chinese women in Fifth Generation films for a transnational Western male film audience and the portrayal of Mainland women in Taiwanese and Hong Kong media. The contributors also consider male nationalism as it is revealed through both international sports coverage on television and in a Chinese television drama. Other works examine a women's museum, a telephone hotline in Beijing, the films of Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, the transnational contacts of a Taiwanese feminist organization, the diaspora of Mainland women writers, and the differences between Chinese and Western feminist themes.

Author : Ru Et Al Shi Jnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:692268397

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Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers by Ru Et Al Shi Jnan Pdf

Author : Lucie Bernier
Publisher : Bern : P. Lang
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110924342

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Aspects of Diaspora by Lucie Bernier Pdf

This anthology is a collection of articles by experts in the field on Chinese-American and Chinese-Canadian authors who wrote in English and French. Both established and emerging writers are studied. Thus, it adds a new dimension to our understanding of the development of the Chinese component of a multicultural society in North America through the analysis of the literary production. This book constitutes a part of intercultural studies of our society.

Author : Kay Schaffer,Xianlin Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135091422

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Women Writers in Postsocialist China by Kay Schaffer,Xianlin Song Pdf

What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women’s writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in recent years. The book addresses the different ways women’s issues are understood in China and the West, attending to the processes of translation, adaptation, and the grafting of new ideas with existing Chinese understandings of gender, feminism, subjectivity, consumerism and (post) modernism. By focusing on women’s autobiographical, biographical, fictional and historical writing, the book engages in a transcultural flow of ideas between western and indigenous Chinese feminisms. Taking account of the accretions of social, cultural, geographic, literary, economic, and political movements and trends, cultural formations and ways of thinking, it asks how the texts and the concepts they negotiate might be understood in the social and cultural spaces within China and how they might be interpreted differently elsewhere in the global locations in which they circulate. The book argues that women-centred writing in China has a direct bearing on global feminist theory and practice. This critical study of selected genres and writers highlights the shifts in feminist perspectives within contemporary local and global cultural landscapes.

Author : Amy D. Dooling,Kristina M. Torgeson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231107013

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Writing Women in Modern China by Amy D. Dooling,Kristina M. Torgeson Pdf

The past few years have seen a burgeoning effort to rethink questions of women, writing, and gender in modern China. Here 22 works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical sketch, introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political, and cultural turbulence. 18 illustrations.

Author : Michael S. Duke
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0765638568

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Modern Chinese Women Writers by Michael S. Duke Pdf

The essays in this volume consider the state of current writing of the world's best Chinese women writers. All the contributors relate their authors to the life and work of other contemporary Chinese women writers, and compare work coming from PRC, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. The essays make a contribution to the fields of Modern Chinese literature and women's studies, and although they are primarily intended to bear witness to the quality of women's writing, they also attempt to elucidate the complex issues of Chinese women's lives in the contemporary world.

Author : Jennifer Anderson
Publisher : Hongkong : Joint Publishing Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106012282890

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Chinese Women Writers by Jennifer Anderson Pdf

Author : Jin Feng
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781612498874

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New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction by Jin Feng Pdf

In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng proposes that representation of the "new woman" in Communist Chinese fiction of the earlier twentieth century was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals. Specifically, Feng argues that male writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ba Jin, and Mao Dun created fictional women as mirror images of their own political inadequacy, but that at the same time this was also an egocentric ploy to affirm and highlight the modernity of the male author. This gender-biased attitude was translated into reality when women writers emerged. Whereas unfair, gender-biased criticism all but stifled the creative output of Bing Xin, Fang Yuanjun, and Lu Yin, Ding Ling's dogged attention to narrative strategy allowed her to maintain subjectivity and independence in her writings; that is until all writers were forced to write for the collective. Feng addresses both the general and the specialized audience of fiction in early-twentieth-century Chinese fiction in three ways: for scholars of the May Fourth period, Feng redresses the emphasis on the simplistic, gender-neutral representation of the new women by re-reading selected texts in the light of marginalized discourse and by an analysis of the evolving strategies of narrative deployment; for those working in the area of feminism and literary studies, Feng develops a new method of studying the representation of Chinese women through an interrogation of narrative permutations, ideological discourses, and gender relationships; and for studies of modernity and modernization, the author presents a more complex picture of the relationships of modern Chinese intellectuals to their cultural past and of women writers to a literary tradition dominated by men.