Book section · January 1, 2025
Taking as its starting point Chinese author Yan Lianke’s 2021 novel The China Story, which Yan wrote in the first months of 2020 at the beginning of the COVID outbreak, this essay reflects more broadly on President Xi Jinping’s political slogan “Telling th ...
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Book section · January 1, 2023
A cancer village, an AIDS village, a rightist re-education camp during China’s Great Famine, and so forth - many of Yan Lianke’s fictional works revolve around remote communities that are comparatively isolated from mainstream Chinese society yet are defin ...
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Book section · January 1, 2022
Starting from a consideration of a 1997 performance titled “Touching Father" by the Beijing-based artist Song Dong, in which Song uses a video projection of his own hand to stroke his father’s face and torso, this article then three films from China, Hong ...
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Book section · January 1, 2020
This chapter examines themes of linguistic copulas and sexual copulation in Xiaolu Guo’s 2014 novel I Am China. In particular, the chapter uses these twin figures of copulas and copulation to consider the novel’s understanding of translation, as well as it ...
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Book section · January 1, 2020
This essay examines why communities around the world have tended to respond relatively poorly and belatedly to the Covid pandemic-despite the fact that the likelihood of this sort of infectious outbreak had been widely recognized by public health experts, ...
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