Writing Chinese
Reshaping Chinese Cultural Identity
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ISBN-13:
9781403971296
Veröffentl:
2006
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.05.2006
Seiten:
222
Autor:
L. Chen
Gewicht:
390 g
Format:
216x171x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This is a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges current discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese with those of China and the Chinese diaspora.
This is a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges current discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese with those of China and the Chinese diaspora.
PART I: THE DEBATE The 'Right' to Copy and the 'Copyright': Questions of Authenticity, Hybridity, and Dis/claiming Chineseness PART II: THE ISSUES Negotiating China's Cultural Authority: Technology of Genealogy and Wang Anyi's Reality and Fiction Whither Taiwan?: Refashioning Cultural Authenticity and Zhu Tianxin's Ancient Captial Hong Kong Androgynous: Embodying Cultural Hybridity and Dung Kai-cheung's Dual Body Chinese American? American Chinese?: Community Building as Subject Making in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey PART III: THE VISION Chinese Diaspora and Transnationality: Envisioning Global Citizen/ship and Gao Xinjian's One Man's Bible Globalizing the Self: Cultural Identity and the Aesthetics of Hybridity in Zhu Tianwen's Notes of a Desolate Man Coda: Cultural Identity on the Flow of Cultural Globalization Bibliography