Reading Chinese transnationalisms : society, literature, film / edited by Maria Ng and Philip Holden.

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TextPublication details: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 238 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789882203860
9882203868

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading Chinese transnationalisms.DDC classification:

305.8951 22

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DS727 .R42 2006eb

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Contents:

1. Introduction / Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden -- SOCIETY. -- 2. Hokkien-Philippines familial transnationalism, 1949-1975 / Edgar Wickberg -- 3. On eating Chinese: diasporic agency and the Chinese Canadian restaurant menu / Lily Cho -- 4. Putting the nation back into the transnational: Chinese self-fashioning and discipline in Singapore / Philip Holden -- LITERATURE. -- 5. Trans-East Asian literature: language and displacement in Hong Ying, Hikaru Okuizumi, and Yi Mun-yol / Kristjana Gunnars -- 6. Cultural and culinary ambivalence in Sara Chin, Evelina Galang, and Yoko Tawada / Petra Fuchinger -- 7. "The Tao is up": intertextuality and cultural dialogue in Tripmaster monkey / Jane Parish Yang -- 8. Overseas Chinese literature: a proposal for clarification / Laifong Leung -- FILM. -- 9. Crouching tiger hidden dragon: (re)packaging Chinas and selling the hybridized culture in an age of transnationalism / Jennifer W. Jay -- 10. Father knows best: reading sexuality in Ang Lee's The wedding banquet and Chay Yew's Porcelain / January Lim -- 11. The cinema of Tsai Ming-liang: a modernist genealogy / Mark Betz -- 12. Sentimental returns: on the uses of the everyday in the recent films of Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai / Rey Chow.

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In: HKU Press digital editionsSummary: Reading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultural studies by examining Chinese transnationalism from a variety of perspectives. In interrogating social practices and literary and filmic texts which frequently cross national borders in imagining Chineseness, the collection's contributors also challenge received notions of Chinese transnationalism, opening up new perspectives on the topic.

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Reading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultural studies by examining Chinese transnationalism from a variety of perspectives. In interrogating social practices and literary and filmic texts which frequently cross national borders in imagining Chineseness, the collection's contributors also challenge received notions of Chinese transnationalism, opening up new perspectives on the topic.

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