Chen Jitong and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World
A Review of Fin-de-Siècle Diplomat: Chen Jitong (1852-1907) and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World, by Ke Ren. In…
Female Subjectivity and Diasporic Experience: Zhao Shuxia’s Life and Fiction
A review of Frauen und Diaspora: Zur Konstitution weiblicher Subjektivität in der Diaspora am Beispiel der sino-helvetischen Autorin Zhao Shuxia,…
History, Aesthetics, and Politics in Chinese Landscape Paintings
A review of Rising from a Placid Lake: China’s Three Gorges at the Intersection of History, Aesthetics and Politics, by…
The Habitus of Post-War Taiwanese Literature
A review of the Literary Field and Literature in Early Post-war Period Taiwan (1945-1949), by Táňa Dluhošová. Although the literary…
Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution
A review of The Phenomenology of “Zeitgeist”: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution, by Pu Wang. When I began studying…
Sanmao Comics and Chinese Politics, 1935-1962
A review of The Revolution of a Little Hero: The Sanmao Comic Strips and the Politics of Childhood in China,…
The Rural and the Modern in Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965
A Review of To The Soil: The Rural and the Modern in Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965, by Zhang Yu. Zhang…
Ecowomanist Literature in the Chinese Diaspora
A review of Imagining the Decolonial Spirit: Ecowomanist Literature and Criticism in the Chinese Diaspora, by Xiumei Pu. Xiumei Pu’s…
Identity and Culture in Late Imperial Chinese Novels
A review of Encountering the Other: Identity, Culture, and the Novel in Late Imperial China, by Huili Zheng. In the…
Chinese-style Writing in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250
A review of Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE, by Jennifer Guest. Although the Heian period…