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Chinese Lit

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Chen Jitong and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World

  • Wen Yu
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A Review of Fin-de-Siècle Diplomat: Chen Jitong (1852-1907) and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World, by Ke Ren. In…
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Female Subjectivity and Diasporic Experience: Zhao Shuxia’s Life and Fiction

  • Rui Kunze
  • 7 minute read
A review of Frauen und Diaspora: Zur Konstitution weiblicher Subjektivität in der Diaspora am Beispiel der sino-helvetischen Autorin Zhao Shuxia,…
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History, Aesthetics, and Politics in Chinese Landscape Paintings

  • Jennifer Dorothy Lee
  • 7 minute read
A review of Rising from a Placid Lake: China’s Three Gorges at the Intersection of History, Aesthetics and Politics, by…
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The Habitus of Post-War Taiwanese Literature

  • Pavlina Kramska
  • 6 minute read
A review of the Literary Field and Literature in Early Post-war Period Taiwan (1945-1949), by Táňa Dluhošová. Although the literary…
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Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution

  • Lucas Klein
  • 7 minute read
A review of The Phenomenology of “Zeitgeist”: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution, by Pu Wang. When I began studying…
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Sanmao Comics and Chinese Politics, 1935-1962

  • Jessica Imbach
  • 7 minute read
A review of The Revolution of a Little Hero: The Sanmao Comic Strips and the Politics of Childhood in China,…
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The Rural and the Modern in Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965

  • Mark McConaghy
  • 5 minute read
A Review of To The Soil: The Rural and the Modern in Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965, by Zhang Yu. Zhang…
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Ecowomanist Literature in the Chinese Diaspora

  • Justyna Jaguscik
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A review of Imagining the Decolonial Spirit: Ecowomanist Literature and Criticism in the Chinese Diaspora, by Xiumei Pu. Xiumei Pu’s…
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Identity and Culture in Late Imperial Chinese Novels

  • Liana Chen
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A review of Encountering the Other: Identity, Culture, and the Novel in Late Imperial China, by Huili Zheng. In the…
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Chinese-style Writing in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250

  • Rebekah Clements
  • 7 minute read
A review of Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE, by Jennifer Guest. Although the Heian period…
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