Journal articlePrism · January 1, 2024
Beginning with discussions of two China-centered world maps by Matteo Ricci, this introduction to the Theory Forum titled “Sovereignty, Postcoloniality, and the Global South” reflects on some of the ways that maps not only reflect a certain preexisting vie ...
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Journal articleChinese Literature and Thought Today · January 1, 2023
This essay uses a dialectics of wildness and domestication as a prism through which to examine the first work in Zhang Guixing’s informal rainforest trilogy, his 1998 novel Elephant Herd (Qunxiang). Focusing on Zhang’s engagement with issues of nature, col ...
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Journal articleChinese Literature and Thought Today · January 1, 2023
Taken from the beginning of Zhang Guixing’s 1998 novel Elephant Herd (Qunxiang), this excerpt opens with a series of flashbacks to incidents that occurred when the narrator was six, seven, eight, and fourteen years old, respectively, focusing on the narrat ...
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Journal articleJournal of Chinese Cinemas · January 1, 2023
Based on an internet novel first released in 2008, the Chinese web series Go Princess Go 太子妃升職記 (2015–2016) takes a time-travel ‘crossover’ premise and uses it to explore a set of queer scenarios involving ‘crossovers’ of both gender and sexual orientation ...
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Journal articleChinese Literature and Thought Today · January 1, 2023
Through a consideration of the introductions that Yingjin Zhang wrote for the first and final solo-edited volumes of his career, China in a Polycentric World (1998) and A World History of Chinese Literature (2023), this essay examines some of the concerns ...
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Journal articleChina Perspectives · January 1, 2023
Beginning with a discussion of Liang Qichao’s 1902 unfinished novel A Future History of New China, this article examines four twenty-first century science fiction works by Han Song, Liu Cixin, Chan Koonchung, and Hao Jingfang – arguing that each work uses ...
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Journal articlePrism · September 1, 2022
This article borrows Juno Salazar Parreñas’s concept of the “semi-wild” as an entry point into an analysis of Malaysian Chinese author Zhang Guixing’s novels Elephant Herd (1998) and Monkey Cup (2000). Set in Sarawak, both works feature a relatively simple ...
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Journal articlePrism · September 1, 2022
Opening with a discussion of Singaporean artist Charles Lim Yi Yong’s multiyear art project SEASTATE (2005–), this introduction uses Singapore’s recent land reclamation efforts to reflect on more general processes of world building in Sinophone Southeast A ...
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Journal articleChinese Literature and Thought Today · January 1, 2022
This discussion derives from a bilingual virtual panel held at the University of California, Irvine on June 9, 2021. In light of the English publication of Liang Hong’s China in One Village, this roundtable is organized to discuss the significance of this ...
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Journal articleChinese Literature and Thought Today · January 1, 2022
Through a discussion of several recent novels by Hu Fayun, Bi Shumin, and Yan Lianke—including Hu’s 2005 novel Such Is ThisWorld@SARS.come(Ruyan@SARS.come); Bi’s 2003 novel Saving the Breast (Zhengjiu rufang) and her 2012 novel Coronavirus (Huaguan bingdu) ...
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Journal articleJournal of Chinese Film Studies · November 1, 2021
Based on a 2000 novella by Cixin Liu with the same title, Frant Gwo's 2019 film Wandering Earth has been celebrated as China's first big-budget science fiction film. As a Chinese film with a global theme that simultaneously targets both a domestic and an i ...
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Journal articleSun Yat Sen Journal of Humanities · July 1, 2021
Taking inspiration from Priscilla Wald's analysis of an influential contemporary "outbreak narrative"-and specifically a set of narratives that place the spread of infectious disease within a set of implicit North-South oppositions-this essay examines how ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Taiwan Studies · January 1, 2021
This essay uses an examination of intertwined thematics of fish and text in the fiction of the ethnically Malaysian Chinese author Ng Kim Chew in order to reflect on a broader set of ecological concerns, including issues relating to the natural ecology of ...
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Journal articleChinese Literature Today · January 1, 2021
Through a comparative analysis of Yan Lianke’s The Day the Sun Died with James Joyce’s Ulysses and Lu Xun’s almost precisely contemporaneous collection Call to Arms, this essay considers the ways in which Yan Lianke’s novel uses motifs of death and “dreamw ...
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Journal articlePrism · October 1, 2020
Taking as its starting point Michel Foucault’s use of the biological species metaphor in his claim that, in nineteenth-century Europe, “the homosexual was now a new species,” this article considers the sudden explosion of homoerotic activities and cultural ...
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Journal articlePrism · October 1, 2019
Taking Lu Xun’s work as its starting point, this essay examines translation as a methodology for negotiating not between different languages or dialects but rather between different voices. To the extent that some fiction attempts to manifest the voices of ...
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Journal articlePrism · March 1, 2019
Taking Jia Pingwa’s 2013 novel Daideng 帶燈 (The Lantern Bearer) as its focal point, this article considers a series of allusions to insects in this and other works. The article takes these references to insects in Jia’s literary publications as a starting p ...
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Journal articlePmla · October 1, 2016
Through an examination of short stories from the Malaysian Chinese author Ng Kim Chew's 2001 collection From Island to Island, this essay reflects on the taxonomic functions of criteria such as language, ethnicity, and nationality, particularly as they inf ...
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Journal articleTheoretical Studies in Literature and Art · May 1, 2016
This article considers the contemporary genre of Internet fan fiction inspired by Dream of the Red Chamber, which is to say Chinese novels published over the Internet that take the plot of Dream of the Red Chamber as their starting point. Through a close t ...
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