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Unsavory Characters: Sino-Tibetan Language Politics in the Fiction of Tsering Döndrup |
Peacock, Christopher |
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2021.0 |
This article examines Tsering Döndrup’s exploration of Chinese influence on Tibetan literature, focusing on his novella Baba Baoma (2019). Unlike his earlier works, the text incorporates untranslated Chinese characters, Tibetan transliterations, and Hanyu Pinyin, producing a fragmented linguistic collage that enacts forced bilingualism. The article argues that Döndrup compels Tibetan readers to engage Chinese fluency to access his fiction, dramatizing the Sino-Tibetan linguistic crisis. It situates his work in relation to global postcolonial literatures while highlighting how Tibetan writing resists language hegemony. At the same time, it demonstrates how the encounter with Chinese reshapes the very terms of Tibetan literary production. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
bilingualism; postcolonialism; language politics |
East Asia |
Tibet |
Peacock, Christopher. "Unsavory Characters: Sino-Tibetan Language Politics in the Fiction of Tsering Döndrup." 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮 18, no. 2 (2021): 385-408. https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9290655. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9290655 |
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Queers on the Move: Sinicizing Queer Theory and Theorizing Queerness in Taiwan |
Guo, Wangtaolue |
Routledge |
2023.0 |
This article investigates the travel of queer theory from the U.S. to Taiwan during the 1990s, with attention to translation and cultural reconfiguration. It outlines the preconditions of queer theory’s migration, then traces three Mandarin translations of “queer” and their influence on popular and academic discourse. Through a hermeneutic study of activist and intellectual writings in Taiwanese publications, it examines how queer theory was redefined and transformed in local contexts. The article argues that this trajectory complicates Edward Said’s model of transnational circulation, while reflecting Taiwan’s shifting cultural and political dynamics in which non-normative sexualities were reconstructed during the decade. |
Journal Articles |
English |
language |
LGBTQ; translation; transnational |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Guo, Wangtaolue. “Queers on the Move: Sinicizing Queer Theory and Theorizing Queerness in Taiwan.” 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 31, no. 2 (2021): 220–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2021.1996618. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2021.1996618 |
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Reconfiguration and Representation in the Literary Landscape: Chinese-Language Literary Production in Singapore |
Yow, Cheun Hoe |
Routledge |
2023.0 |
This article presents a case study of Chinese-language literary production in Singapore, analyzed through the nation’s literary demography to show how it is being reconfigured in the Chinese diaspora. It argues that the Chinese literary tradition can be studied by appropriating concepts from world literature and Sinophone literature to position writers and their works. Using a sociological perspective, the article studies award-winning books and major magazines. It defines three demographic groups—locally rooted Singaporean Chinese, ethnic Chinese from Malaysia, and recent immigrants from China—and suggests that each group acquires recognition and resources unevenly while shaping Singapore’s contemporary literary field. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
diaspora; migrants |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Yow, Cheun Hoe. “Reconfiguration and Representation in the Literary Landscape: Chinese-Language Literary Production in Singapore.” 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 59, no. 6 (2023): 735–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2293222. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2293222 |
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From the Transnational to the Sinophone: Lesbian Representations in Chinese-Language Films |
Wong, Alvin Ka Hin |
Taylor & Francis Group |
2012.0 |
This article theorizes global lesbian cinema in Chinese-language films through regionalism, diaspora studies, and Sinophone studies. It conducts an inter-regional analysis of Butterfly (Yan Yan Mak, 2004, Hong Kong) and diasporic and Sinophone readings of Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2005, USA). The article argues that Mak’s film illustrates a Hong Kong retranslation of a Taiwanese lesbian story, complicating stable notions of “Chinese” identity. It further contends that Wu’s representation of lesbianism troubles the politics of Chineseness by showing how diasporic reproduction of “community” relies on disciplining non-normative sexualities. Together, these films demonstrate the instability of identity within global lesbian cinema. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
LGBTQ; identity; Chineseness |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wong, Alvin Ka Hin. “From the Transnational to the Sinophone: Lesbian Representations in Chinese-Language Films.” 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑒𝑠𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 16, no. 3 (2012): 307–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2012.673930. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2012.673930 |
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Ma Jian and Gao Xingjian: Intellectual Nomadism and Exilic Consciousness in Sinophone Literature |
Kong, Shuyu |
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée |
2014.0 |
This article examines the exilic experience and nomadic discourse in the lives and works of Gao Xingjian and Ma Jian—two prominent authors living outside China since the late 1980s. It argues that their exilic writing offers new material for studying literary exile and nomadism at the turn of the 21st century. Applying a sociological and theoretical lens grounded in nomadism—as existential condition and aesthetic choice—the article analyzes how their autobiographical and fictional texts embody intellectual alienation. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of de-territorialization, it highlights how nomadic consciousness challenges power formations and distinguishes their work within Sinophone and world literatures. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
migrants; exile; nomadism |
Europe |
France; U.K. |
Kong, Shuyu. "Ma Jian and Gao Xingjian: Intellectual Nomadism and Exilic Consciousness in Sinophone Literature." 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 / 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑢𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑒 𝑑𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒́𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒́𝑒 41, no. 2 (2014): 126-146. https://doi.org/10.1353/crc.2014.0010. |
open access: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/crcl/index.php/crcl/article/view/25754/18990 |
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華語語系，台灣觀點 |
Wang, David Der-wei |
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2015.0 |
In this essay, Wang examines the intellectual stakes of Sinophone studies from a Taiwan-centered perspective. Responding to debates emerging after Shu-mei Shih’s foundational work, Wang argues that Sinophone studies should not be viewed merely as a Western academic construct but as a critical framework that enables deeper reflection on Taiwan’s literary history. Through discussion of three essays published in the same journal issue, he highlights how Sinophone approaches illuminate Taiwan’s complex entanglements with Indigenous writing, Mahua literature, colonial-era Chinese writing, and postwar literary politics. Rather than focusing solely on identity claims, Wang emphasizes the critical force of “shì” (勢)—relations, power, and positionality—as key to understanding Taiwan’s multilingual, multi-origin literary formations. |
Journal Articles |
Chinese |
literature |
language politics; literary history |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
王德威。<華語語系，台灣觀點>。《中外文學》第44卷第1期（2015）：頁131–134。2025年12月2日檢索自華藝線上圖書館。https://doi.org/10.6637/CWLQ.2015.44(1).131-134。 |
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The Institutionalization of Asian American Literary Studies in Taiwan: A Diasporic Sinophone Malaysian Perspective |
Tong, Tee Kim |
Routledge |
2012.0 |
This article discusses the institutionalization of Chinese American and Asian American literary studies in Taiwan from the perspective of a Sinophone Malaysian. It examines the motivations of local scholars to engage with these literatures and argues that emphasizing ethnic, cultural, and affective affinities risks overlooking cultural heterogeneity and generational differences embedded within the texts. In reading Chinese American or Asian American works, Taiwanese scholars often stress Asian affinities, while diasporic Sinophone Malaysians highlight differences in linguistic medium and multicultural context. The article further observes the comparative significance of Sinophone literary texts produced in Taiwan and Sinophone Malaysian works published in Taiwan. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
diaspora; identity |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Tong, Tee Kim. “The Institutionalization of Asian American Literary Studies in Taiwan: A Diasporic Sinophone Malaysian Perspective.” 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟-𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 13, no. 2 (2012): 286–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2012.659814. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2012.659814 |
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Il dibattito accademico cinese riguardo alla produzione letteraria di autori cinesi e sinodiscendenti fuori dai confini nazionali |
Sun, Tianyang |
Firenze University Press |
2021.0 |
This article reviews key issues in mainland Chinese research on literary works by Chinese emigrants and authors of Chinese descent, analyzing a selection of recently published representative studies. After briefly tracing the development of such studies in China, it examines questions of denomination, methodology, and canon by juxtaposing the perspectives of various scholars. Particular attention is given to the concept of “Chineseness,” which is sometimes mythicized in essentialist discourses within Chinese academia. |
Journal Articles |
Italian |
literature |
identity; migrants; Chineseness |
East Asia |
China |
Sun, Tianyang. "Il dibattito accademico cinese riguardo alla produzione letteraria di autori cinesi e sinodiscendenti fuori dai confini nazionali." 𝐿𝐸𝐴 10 (2021): 383-392. https://doi.org/10.13128/lea-1824-484x-13026. |
https://doi.org/10.13128/lea-1824-484x-13026 |
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From Diasporic Cinemas to Sinophone Cinemas |
Yue, Audrey ; Khoo, Olivia |
Routledge |
2012.0 |
This special issue intends to reframe the field by distinguishing Sinophone cinemas from diasporic frameworks, focusing instead on linguistic plurality, local specificity, and cultural disarticulation from the Chinese nation-state. The collected essays examine Sinophone film practices in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora, attending to queer aesthetics, independent filmmaking, and postcolonial modernity. Together, they establish Sinophone cinema as a critical formation distinct from national or ethnocentric paradigms. |
Special Issue |
English |
cinema |
media studies |
General |
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Yue, Audrey, and Olivia Khoo, eds. "From Diasporic Cinemas to Sinophone Cinemas." Special Issue, 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑠, vol. 6, no. 1 (2012). |
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjcc20/6/1 |
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Learning Chinese Turning Chinese: Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World |
McDonald, Edward |
Routledge |
2011.0 |
This book examines Chinese language learning through a critical and contextual lens of becoming sinophone—not merely acquiring linguistic skills, but undergoing a holistic transformation toward fluency comparable to one’s mother tongue and developing a sinophone identity. It employs a multidisciplinary methodology combining critical discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and historical inquiry to explore topics such as character myths, nationalism, and popular culture. By integrating these approaches, the book offers a rich, context-sensitive analysis of what it means to learn Chinese and to “turn Chinese,” reframing language education as a socially and culturally embedded process. |
Monographs |
English |
language |
identity; globalization ; sociolinguistics; ethnicity |
General |
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McDonald, Edward. 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒, 𝑇𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒: 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. Routledge, 2011. |
Open access e-book page: https://archive.org/details/learningchineset0000mcdo_a7k3 |
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Sinophone Studies: Rethinking Overseas Chinese Studies and Chinese Diaspora Studies |
Tan, E. K. |
中山大學文學院 |
2013.0 |
This article surveys the evolution from Overseas Chinese studies to Chinese Diaspora studies and finally to Sinophone studies, examining the political and cultural implications of these disciplines. It problematizes Chinacentric discourses on Chineseness and the cultural nostalgia for China that shaped earlier studies. The article deconstructs essentialist notions of Chineseness to emphasize the significance of local realities and lived experiences of Sinophone communities. It argues that Sinophone studies offers new frameworks where Chinese Diaspora studies reaches its limits, proposing the concept of “Translational Sinophone Identity” to recognize identities as dynamic, reconstructed, and translatable, while deimperializing essentialist assumptions about Chineseness. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
diaspora; identity; Chineseness |
General |
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Tan, E. K. 陳榮強. “Sinophone Studies: Rethinking Overseas Chinese Studies and Chinese Diaspora Studies” 𝘚𝘶𝘯 𝘠𝘢𝘵-𝘚𝘦𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 35 (July 2013): 1-26. |
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當多種華語語系文學相遇：台灣與華語語系世界的糾葛 |
Zhan, Min-xu ; Hsu, Kuo-ming |
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2015.0 |
This article examines Taiwan’s position at the intersection of multiple Sinophone literary formations, arguing that encounters among different Chinese-language literary traditions should not be reduced to cultural plurality or identity affirmation. Instead, the authors propose “complicated entanglement” as a framework for understanding unequal power relations embedded in cross-cultural contact. Using Indigenous Taiwan writing and Mahua literature’s entry into Taiwanese literary prize systems as case studies, the article reveals how visibility, recognition, and legitimacy are differently structured for various Sinophone communities. Rather than viewing Taiwan as a neutral meeting ground, the authors highlight its historically contingent political, ethical, and cultural networks, calling for deeper interrogation of the forces shaping Sinophone literary circulation and categorization. |
Journal Articles |
Chinese |
literature |
identity; transnationalism; ethnicity; cross-cultural entanglement |
Cross-region |
Taiwan; Malaysia |
詹閔旭、徐國明。〈當多種華語語系文學相遇：台灣與華語語系世界的糾葛〉。《中外文學》第44卷第1期（2015）：頁25-62。2025年12月2日檢索自華藝線上圖書館。https://doi-org.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/10.6637/CWLQ.2015.44(1).25-62 |
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Notes on the Sinophone Mediascape in Australia |
Yue, Audrey |
Taylor & Francis |
2012.0 |
This article surveys the contemporary Sinophone mediascape in Australia through case studies of media consumption and film production. It argues that diasporic Chinese media practices are best understood through the concept of media capital, which enables both creative nationalisms and new lifestyle politics. The article traces shifts from community-based ethnic media to transnational networks shaped by digital platforms, East Asian popular culture, and Hollywood integration. It further examines reverse migration in Chinese Australian film production, showing how filmmakers leverage transnational funding and cultural flows. The study highlights the Sinophone as a peripheral yet vital site of global Chinese media. |
Journal Articles |
English |
mass media |
transnationalism; diaspora; mediascape |
Oceania |
Australia |
Yue, Audrey. “Notes on the Sinophone Mediascape in Australia.” 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 5, no. 1 (2012): 24–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2011.647740. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2011.647740 |
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Republic of Southern Sinophone Literature: A Proposal |
Ng, Kim Chew |
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2018.0 |
This article expands the author’s long-term studies on Sinophone literature by proposing a theoretical framework distinct from Mainland Chinese scholarship on “Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese literature” and from Sinophone studies advanced by David Wang and Shih Shu-mei. Building on prior discussions of Chineseness, the impossibility of nativism, and Sinophone minor literature, it reinforces the importance of the South and externality, drawing on Bourdieu’s cultural field theory and Casanova’s La République mondiale des Lettres. The article argues that, unlike economics, world literature remains uneven, positioning modern Chinese literature outside dominant Euro-American traditions while reconfiguring Sinophone literatures through regional world-systems. |
Journal Articles |
Chinese |
literature |
Global South; dialects |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong; Taiwan; Singapore; Malaysia |
Ng, Kim Chew 黃錦樹. "Republic of Southern Sinophone Literature: A Proposal." 𝘚𝘶𝘯 𝘠𝘢𝘵-𝘚𝘦𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 45 (2018): 1-20. |
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Sinophone Queerness and Female Auteurship in Zero Chou's Drifting Flowers |
Pecic, Zoran Lee |
International Academic Forum |
2016.0 |
This article investigates Drifting Flowers (2009), the third film in Taiwanese director Zero Chou’s tongzhi trilogy. It argues that the film resists dominant “global gay” narratives of identity formation while remaining grounded in Taiwan’s cultural and geographical context. By examining intertextual and intratextual elements, the article positions Chou as a Taiwanese queer auteur whose inclusive vision of queerness expands the possibilities of cinematic representation. It suggests that Chou’s work not only defines new directions for New Queer Sinophone Cinema but also contributes to broader global queer cinema, complicating conventional understandings of sexuality, identity, and cultural specificity in film. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
LGBTQ; Zero Chou |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Pecic, Zoran Lee. "Sinophone Queerness and Female Auteurship in Zero Chou’s Drifting Flowers." 𝘐𝘈𝘍𝘖𝘙 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 & 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 3, no. 1: 22-35. |
https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-media-communication-and-film/volume-3-issue-1/article-3/ |
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At the Crossroads: "Orphan of Asia" Postloyalism and Sinophone Studies |
Tsai, Chien-Hsin |
中山大學文學院 |
2013.0 |
This article examines Wu Zhuoliu’s Orphan of Asia through the interrelated dialectics of orphan, postloyalism, and Sinophone studies. It highlights loyalty and migration as central themes, showing how the orphan metaphor engages questions of displacement and national belonging. The essay analyzes the postloyalist equation of migrant and loyalist, situating it within Sinophone studies and Asian American Studies. It argues that the orphan metaphor illuminates tensions between competing loyalties and cultural identities, as Sinophone subjects are judged both insufficiently Chinese and insufficiently American. By tracing kinship relations and national imaginaries, the study demonstrates how migration reshapes identity, belonging, and cultural affiliation. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
postloyalism; orphan; identity |
General |
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Tsai, Chien-Hsin 蔡建鑫. "At the Crossroads: 'Orphan of Asia', Postloyalism, and Sinophone Studies." 𝘚𝘶𝘯 𝘠𝘢𝘵-𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 35 (2013): 27-46. |
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Mainlandization or Sinophone Translocality? Challenges for Hong Kong SAR New Wave Cinema |
Szeto, Mirana M. ; Chen, Yun-Chung |
Routledge |
2012.0 |
This article examines the revival of Hong Kong cinema through Hong Kong–China co-productions that increasingly cater to the China market. It argues that while major Hong Kong creative talents have prospered and influenced Chinese industry conventions, below-the-line jobs are being replaced by mainland workers, rendering such careers unsustainable. These “mainlandized” co-productions also struggle to engage more liberal Sinophone audiences in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. With both mainlandization and Hollywoodization threatening Hong Kong film’s identity, the article questions whether the SAR New Wave and its post-1980s audiences can sustain inter-local Sinophone dialogues and translocal cultural articulations beyond national identity politics. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
cultural articulation; identity; translocality |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Szeto, Mirana M., and Yun-Chung Chen. “Mainlandization or Sinophone Translocality? Challenges for Hong Kong SAR New Wave Cinema.” 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 6, no. 2 (2012): 115–34. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcc.6.2.115_1. |
https://doi.org/10.1386/jcc.6.2.115_1 |
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Mobile Intimacies in the Queer Sinophone Films of Cui Zi'en |
Yue, Audrey |
Routledge |
2012.0 |
This article defines queer Sinophone cinema as encompassing queer Chinese cinemas outside China and queer films within China that circulate through peripheral and global queer markets. It situates queer Sinophone cinema at the margins of Chinese heteronormativity, where kinship and subjectivity are reshaped by global modernity. Focusing on Cui Zi’en, China’s foremost gay filmmaker, the article analyzes Refrain (2006) and The Narrow Path (2004). It argues that Cui deploys the discourse of mobile intimacy to portray gay intimacy as movement across boundaries of sign, image, and community, interrogating how neoliberal gay identities in China are simultaneously regulated and emancipatory. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
LGBTQ; identity; Cui Zi'en |
East Asia |
China |
Yue, Audrey. “Mobile Intimacies in the Queer Sinophone Films of Cui Zi’en.” 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 6, no. 1 (2012): 95–108. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcc.6.1.95_1. |
https://doi.org/10.1386/jcc.6.1.95_1 |
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Modernizing Primordialism: Deterritorializing Chineseness and Reterritorializing the Sinophone in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
Coe, Jason G. |
Intellect |
2018.0 |
This article examines how the wuxia tradition in cinema constructs primordial "Chineseness" and "cultural China" as identities to be transmitted and deployed globally. It critiques frameworks that take cultural identities such as "Chineseness" or "Americanness" for granted, which reduce culture to an essential substance and assume cinema authentically represents national origins or hybridizes cultures. Using Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a case study, the article demonstrates how wuxia generates imagined worlds that connect disparate peoples, including diasporic populations, while transmitting and concretizing cultural identity. The sword, as a plot device, illustrates how passing for traditional enables local cinemas to access global markets and engenders becoming Sinophone. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
identity; Chineseness; imaginaries; Wuxia |
East Asia |
China |
Coe, Jason G. "Modernizing Primordialism: Deterritorializing Chineseness and Reterritorializing the Sinophone in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢 29, no. 1 (2018): 99-116. https://doi.org/10.1386/ac.29.1.99_1. |
https://doi.org/10.1386/ac.29.1.99_1 |
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In Search Of New Forms: The Impact of Bilingual Policy and the "Speak Mandarin" Campaign on Sinophone Singapore Poetry |
Tan, E. K. |
Routledge |
2016.0 |
This essay examines language reform in the first two decades of Singapore’s independence, focusing on the bilingual education policy and the “Speak More Mandarin, Less Dialects” campaign. It argues that these measures simultaneously divided and restructured the heterogeneous Sinophone community into a cohesive homologous unit by promoting Mandarin as the common language among Sinitic dialect groups. The policy also reshaped relationships between Chinese, Indian, and Malay communities and their mother tongues, assigning Mandarin as a maternal figure to preserve cultural traditions against Western influence. The essay analyses three contemporary Sinophone poems, illustrating their responses to these reforms on society and literary traditions. |
Journal Articles |
English |
language |
multilingualism; bilingualism; identity |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Tan, E. K. 陳榮強. “In Search Of New Forms: The Impact of Bilingual Policy and the ‘Speak Mandarin’ Campaign on Sinophone Singapore Poetry.” 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 18, no. 4 (2016): 526–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1126188. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1126188 |
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"One Part in Concert and One Part Repellence": Liu Waitong, Cao Shuying, and the Question of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Sinophones |
Klein, Lucas |
Foreign Language Publications |
2018.0 |
This paper interrogates whether Hong Kong poetry constitutes Chinese poetry, poetry in Chinese, Sinophone poetry, or something else, and examines the relationship between Sinophone and Chinese literature. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of “minor literature,” it questions the applicability of the Sinophone designation to Hong Kong writing in Cantonese while opening possibilities for Sinophone literature by non-minority mainland writers. Focusing on the work of Hong Kong-based poets Cao Shuying and Liu Waitong, the paper analyzes their poems and positioning within Hong Kong and mainland literary circles, exploring Sinophone status and minor mainland literature, concluding with reflections on the rhizome as a conceptual framework. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity; poetry; dialects |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Klein, Lucas. “‘One Part in Concert, and One Part Repellence’: Liu Waitong, Cao Shuying, and the Question of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Sinophones.” 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 30, no. 2 (2018): 141–72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26895750. |
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26895750 |
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Hong Kong as Alternative Sinophone Articulation: Translation and Literary Cartography in Dung Kai-Cheung's Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City |
Chao, Long |
De Gruyter |
2018.0 |
This article examines post-2014 Umbrella Movement Hong Kong through a Sinophone lens, focusing on issues of self-positioning vis-à-vis Mainland China. It situates Hong Kong’s contemporary cultural struggles within broader postcolonial discourses of the 1990s. The study analyzes Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City through three levels of translation, demonstrating how the text generates kaleidoscopic representations of Hong Kong. Deprived of nativist or nationalistic discourse, Atlas creates new epistemic possibilities for understanding the city’s history and culture, while exemplifying Hong Kong’s significance within global Sinophone cultures and offering alternative perspectives on its relationship to Mainland China. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity; translation; literary cartography; postcolonial |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Chao, Long. "Hong Kong as Alternative Sinophone Articulation: Translation and Literary Cartography in Dung Kai-Cheung’s Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City." 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 2, no. 1 (2018): 771-80. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0069. |
https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0069 |
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Queer Latent Images, Post-Loyalism, and the Cold War: The Case of an Early Sinophone Star, Bai Yun |
Hee, Wai-Siam |
University of Minnesota Press |
2020.0 |
This article examines Bai Yun (1916–1982) as a Sinophone star whose career spanned Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Born in Malaya and raised in Singapore, Bai Yun’s multilingual abilities in Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Chaozhouese, Shanghainese, English, Japanese, and Malay enabled him to navigate Mandarin, Cantonese, and Amoy-language films. The study situates him within the Cold War Sinophone world, highlighting how his performances in folk tale adaptations, largely free of political sensitivities, allowed him to circulate across regions, connecting fragmented Chineseness. Despite his fame, scholarly attention remains limited, with his transnational Sinophone identity largely overlooked. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
transnationalism; LGBTQ; postloyalism; Cold War; multilingualism; Chineseness |
Cross-region |
China; Taiwan; Southeast Asia |
Hee, Wai-Siam. “Queer Latent Images, Post-Loyalism, and the Cold War: The Case of an Early Sinophone Star, Bai Yun.” 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 108 (2020): 94–124. https://doi.org/10.5749/culturalcritique.108.2020.0094. |
https://doi.org/10.5749/culturalcritique.108.2020.0094 |
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Foreword: The Sinophone as History and the Sinophone as Theory |
Shih, Shu-mei |
Routledge |
2012.0 |
In this foundational essay, Shih introduces the Sinophone framework, delineating it as a historical and theoretical construct that transcends monolingual and ethnocentric paradigms. She critiques essentialist views of "Chineseness" and advocates for a Sinophone perspective that acknowledges the complexities of colonialism, migration, and cultural interactions. Shih emphasizes the importance of recognizing internal diversity and power dynamics within Sinophone communities, challenging traditional notions of Chinese identity and proposing a more nuanced understanding of cultural production and identity formation. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
identity; colonialism; multilingualism; multiculturalism |
General |
|
Shih, Shu-Mei. “Foreword: The Sinophone as History and the Sinophone as Theory.” 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 6, no. 1 (2012): 5–8. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcc.6.1.5_7. |
https://doi.org/10.1386/jcc.6.1.5_7 |
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Behind the Shutter: Disappearance and the Postcolonial Body in Early Sinophone Media Art |
Li, Yu-Chieh |
Routledge |
2021.0 |
This paper analyses how time-based media practices in Taiwan and Hong Kong emerged to preserve traces of the disappearing and the already invisible, reflecting the elusiveness of the colonial subject under complex postcolonial conditions. It argues that early intermedia artworks confront the impossibility of fully capturing the present moment, as subjects continually adjust to shifting cultural and political powers. Employing bodies and performative methods, artists dissolve the monolithic authority of the camera, while early experimental theater provides anti-institutional spaces, technical support, and avant-garde networks, highlighting intermedia practices as a critical response to the margins of the Sinosphere. |
Journal Articles |
English |
art |
postcolonialism; identity |
East Asia |
Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Li, Yu-Chieh. “Behind the Shutter: Disappearance and the Postcolonial Body in Early Sinophone Media Art.” 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘵 11, no. 2 (2020): 177–200. https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2020.1858340. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2020.1858340 |
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Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet |
Ma, Sheng-mei |
Springer International Publishing |
2017.0 |
This book explores the paradoxical dynamics of literary and visual exchanges between the Sinophone and Anglophone worlds, shifting between harmony and conflict in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera across the Pacific. In today’s climate of rising tension between China and the U.S., the author points to a major gap in how we understand their cultural connections. Rather than focusing on politics, the book examines how the Chinese and English languages—and the cultures they carry—interact. It reveals how East and West are drawn to one another, yet often clash, like two sides of the same coin—deeply linked but frequently at odds. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
identity; cinema; transnationalism; cultural politics |
Cross-region |
China; United States |
Ma, Shengmei. 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦-𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘶𝘦𝘵. Springer, 2017. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-58033-3 |
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Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture Masculinity and Social Perceptions |
Peng, Chun-Yi |
Springer |
2021.0 |
This book examines how language attitudes toward gangtaiqiang—a Hong Kong-Taiwan accent in Taiwanese Mandarin—have developed through media exposure and underlying social ideologies. Gangtaiqiang has become a familiar stereotype for many mainland Chinese, despite limited direct interaction with Taiwanese speakers. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, the author investigates how Chinese millennials perceive this accent, focusing on the influence of televised media and evolving gender norms. The book argues that gangtaiqiang should be understood as a media-shaped variety of Mandarin. Once seen as stylish and cosmopolitan, it is now often perceived as pretentious or overly feminine, reflecting broader China-Taiwan power dynamics. |
Monographs |
English |
linguistics |
sociolinguistics; accents; media representation; identity |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Peng, Chun-Yi. 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘢𝘪𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯: 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. Springer, 2021. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-4222-0 |
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Urban Scenes |
Liu, Na'ou |
Cambria Press |
2023.0 |
This volume presents the first full English translation of Urban Scenes, a collection of eight stories by Liu Na'ou (1905–1940), a key figure in early modern Chinese literature and film. Though born in Taiwan, Liu made his mark in 1930s Shanghai, where he introduced Japanese New Sensationism to modern Chinese urban fiction. His stories vividly depict the morally complex world of modern Shanghai, filled with nightclubs, racetracks, cinemas, and cafes. Alongside the original collection, this book includes three additional stories Liu published separately and an introduction by the translators, shedding new light on Liu’s influence and the cultural currents of Republican-era China. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
literary geography; urban life; modernity |
East Asia |
China |
Liu, Na'ou. 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴. Cambria Press, 2023. |
Publisher's page: https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=1047 |
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From Anthropomorphism to Becoming-Animal: Animal Agency in Zhang Guixing's Nanyang Imagination |
Sheng, Zhifan |
Tamkang University |
2021.0 |
This paper examines Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese writer Zhang Guixing’s (Chang Kueihsing) animal writing in fictional works set in the Nanyang. It argues against conventional critiques that prioritize humans over animals, proposing a non-anthropocentric vision in human-animal relationships. Tracing the genealogy of Zhang’s writing from early works like Grassland Prince and Siren Song to later works such as The Naughty Family, Elephants, Monkey Cup, and Wild Boars Cross the River, the study shows how he employs anthropomorphism and engages Deleuze’s notion of “becoming-animal” to create kaleidoscopic spaces where humans and animals overlap. The paper also rethinks Sinophone literary studies beyond human-centered concerns. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
diaspora; cultural politics; postcolonial; Chang Kuei-hsing (Zhang Guixing) 張貴興 |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Sheng, Zhifan. "From Anthropomorphism to Becoming-Animal: Animal Agency in Zhang Guixing’s Nanyang Imagination." 𝘛𝘢𝘮𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 51, no. 2 (2021): 23-44. |
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Conciliatory Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur Writer Padi Guli's A Hundred Years of Bloodline |
Tan, E. K. |
Duke University Press |
2021.0 |
This article examines Padi Guli’s 2015 novel about Fatima, a Uyghur woman tracing her family history while negotiating minority identity within multiethnic China. It argues that the novel adopts “conciliatory amalgamation,” a state-sanctioned rhetoric privileging national unity and economic progress under the banner of multiethnicism. Reading the text against PRC ethnic minority policies, the article highlights how Fatima’s cultural, linguistic, and geopolitical crossings frame amalgamation as survival. It further contends that Padi Guli, as a Sinophone Uyghur writer, mirrors her protagonist: both negotiate belonging through accommodation, sustaining Chinese literature’s self-image as inclusive while reinforcing its hegemonic boundaries. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity; ethnic groups; conciliatory amalgamation |
East Asia |
China |
Tan, E. K. 陳榮強. "Conciliatory Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur Writer Padi Guli's A Hundred Years of Bloodline." 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮 18, no. 2 (2021): 409–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9290664. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9290664 |
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The Circulation of Ghostly Women and Li Yongping's Affective Sinophone Malaysian Identity |
Leng, Rachel |
SAGE Publications Ltd |
2017.0 |
This article examines Li Yongping’s literary engagement with gender and feminine sexuality as central to the shifting construction of Sinophone Malaysian identity. Focusing on his short story collection The Snow Falls in Clouds (2002), it analyzes how Li deploys the figure of the prostitute to evoke identity as a continually reinvented affective formation. The article situates this trope within Southeast Asia’s history of trafficking Chinese female bodies, highlighting its role in shaping Sinophone Malaysian community and cultural memory. By foregrounding spectral feminine images, the study argues that Li complicates notions of “Chineseness” through deterritorialized articulations of citizenship, nationalism, and subjectivity. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
women; gender; sexuality; identity; Chineseness |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Leng, Rachel. “The Circulation of Ghostly Women and Li Yongping’s Affective Sinophone Malaysian Identity.” 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 25, no. 2 (2017): 122–38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26372064. |
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26372064 |
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Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues |
Kam, Tan See |
Hong Kong University Press |
2016.0 |
This book presents a multifaceted study of Peking Opera Blues (1986), a film by Tsui Hark that blends historical drama, thriller, and comedy. It situates Tsui within a Sinophone framework, examining how the diasporic director challenges fixed notions of "Chineseness." By featuring characters who speak both Cantonese and Mandarin and exploring competing nationalisms, the film portrays Chinese identity as diverse and fluid. The intertextual analysis in the book connects the film to Tsui’s earlier film Shanghai Blues (1984), Hong Kong's Mandarin Canto-pop songs, the "three-women" films in Chinese-language cinemas, and traditional Peking opera, highlighting how Tsui uses postmodern techniques to reflect postcolonial questions that still resonate today. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
identity; nationalism; multilingualism; postcolonialism; Chineseness; Tsui, Hark 徐克 |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Kam, Tan See. 𝘛𝘴𝘶𝘪 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘬'𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴. Hong Kong University Press, 2016. |
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Harks-Peking-Opera-Blues-Cinema/dp/9888208861 |
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Sinophone Modernity: History, Culture, Geopolitics |
Chiang, Howard |
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
2019.0 |
This chapter examines the concept of the Sinophone as an alternative to traditional frameworks of diaspora and Chineseness. Building on Shu-mei Shih’s foundational work, the author shows how Sinophone studies decenter China by foregrounding Sinitic-language communities shaped by colonialism, migration, and transnational exchange. The chapter critiques the limitations of diaspora and global China scholarship, positioning Sinophone modernity as a dynamic framework for cultural and historical analysis. It concludes with a queer Sinophone reading of Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu (2001), demonstrating how sexuality, geopolitics, and cultural marginality intersect in Sinophone contexts. |
Book Chapters |
English |
history |
modernity; postcolonialism; LGBTQ |
General |
|
Chiang, Howard. "Sinophone Modernity: History, Culture, Geopolitics." In 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦, edited by Chunjie Zhang. Routledge, 2018. |
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429485985-8/sinophone-modernity-howard-chiang |
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Diasporic Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Literature: The Role of Language and Cultural Elements |
Zhao, Zhongqiu |
Springer US |
2024.0 |
This article examines the intersections of language, culture, and identity in Sinophone diasporic literature through comparative and typological analysis of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. It argues that each text demonstrates how language and cultural elements shape dual identity struggles within the diaspora. Code-switching reveals psychological tension, literary allusions highlight heritage preservation, and cultural conflict underscores divided allegiances. The study contends that these shared strategies broaden understanding of Sinophone diasporic identity formation and provide valuable insights for literary, cultural, and educational studies. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
cultural marginality; identity; cultural articulation; diaspora |
General |
|
Zhao, Zhongqiu, "Diasporic Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Literature: The Role of Language and Cultural Elements." 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 53, no. 1 (2024): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-024-10058-9. |
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-024-10058-9 |
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Theorizing Vernacular Discourse in Sinophone Transnational Space: On Namewee's YouTube Music Videos |
Yueh, Hsin-I Sydney |
Routledge |
2020.0 |
This article expands Ono and Sloop’s concept of vernacular discourse by situating it within the transnational social media space of YouTube. It examines the music videos of Namewee, a Malaysian Sinophone musician, to show how his collaborations with Taiwanese YouTubers construct identities across linguistic and cultural margins. Through analysis of two works, the article highlights the dynamics of “linguistic minorities,” “place-basedness,” and “vernacular collaboration” in the Sinophone transnational sphere. By foregrounding horizontal connections among minority groups across borders, the study reconceptualizes vernacular discourse beyond an American English-speaking framework, illuminating its potential in Sinophone cultural production and digital activism. |
Journal Articles |
English |
music |
transnationalism; vernacular discourse; social media |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Yueh, Hsin-I Sydney. “Theorizing Vernacular Discourse in Sinophone Transnational Space: On Namewee’s YouTube Music Videos.” 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘓𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 37, no. 2 (2020): 174–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2020.1713389. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2020.1713389 |
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Chinese-Australian Culture in a Sinophone History and Geography |
Stenberg, Josh |
Routledge |
2023.0 |
This article proposes analyzing Australian Chinese cultural production through the framework of Sinophone studies to clarify Australia’s place in transnational Chinese-language networks. It examines three examples—Chinese-language theatre, Federation-era fiction, and foreign student literature of the 1990s—to demonstrate how they exemplify broader Sinophone phenomena. By situating these works within global Chinese-language production, the article argues that research can move beyond dyadic models of diaspora and transnationalism, while foregrounding community diversity and marginalized texts. It concludes that considering Sinophone Australian literature and theatre in relation to global Sinophone production sharpens understanding of both shared dynamics and Australia’s particular cultural positioning. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
transnationalism; multiculturalism; |
Oceania |
Australia |
Stenberg, Josh. “Chinese-Australian Culture in a Sinophone History and Geography.” 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 47, no. 3 (2023): 447–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2023.2217822. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2023.2217822 |
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Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Not Made in China |
Groppe, Alison M. |
Cambria Press |
2013.0 |
This book offers a comprehensive study of Chinese-language literature from Malaysia, a vibrant yet underexplored branch of the Chinese literary diaspora. In an era of growing global interest in Chinese language and literature, it raises timely questions about identity, language, and cultural belonging beyond the borders of China. Focusing on writers navigating life in multiethnic, multilingual Malaysia, the book asks what it means to be Chinese-speaking and of Chinese descent in a postcolonial, diasporic context. By addressing this overlooked body of work, the book contributes to broader discussions in Chinese studies, Southeast Asian studies, diaspora and migration studies, and world literature. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
diaspora; identity |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Groppe, Alison M. 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦: 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢. Cambria Press, 2013. |
Publisher's page: https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=563 |
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Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures beyond the China Dream |
Riemenschnitter, Andrea; Imbach, Jessica; Jaguscik, Justyna |
Cambria Press |
2023.0 |
This book examines the rise of contemporary Sinophone utopian thought as it emerges across literature, art, and media in China and beyond. Moving beyond state-led narratives like Xi Jinping’s “China Dream,” it focuses on how writers, artists, and activists reimagine future societies marked by diversity, inclusivity, and grassroots agency. Challenging dominant nationalist visions, it highlights alternative imaginaries shaped by ecological, cultural, and ideological plurality. Through case studies of visual culture, fiction, and community projects, the study maps how flexible, bottom-up models of togetherness are gaining ground, offering a new framework for understanding utopianism in Chinese and Sinophone cultural production. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
utopias ; cultural articulation; communities; modernity |
General |
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Riemenschnitter, Andrea, Jessica Imbach, and Justyna Jaguscik, eds. 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘜𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘴: 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮. Cambria Press, 2023. |
Publisher's page: https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=900 |
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Engagement with Female-Oriented Male-Male Incest Erotica: A Comparison of Sinophone and Anglophone Boys' Love Fandom |
Madill, Anna; Zhao, Yao |
Routledge |
2022.0 |
This article investigates incest representations in Boys’ Love (BL), a global youth genre centered on male-male romance, through the largest comparative survey of Anglophone (N = 1715) and Sinophone (N = 1922) audiences. Using CATPCA, the study identifies a common hierarchy of preferences—non-blood relationships, blood intergenerational ties, then brothers. It finds avid fans most likely to consume incest narratives, with Sinophone fans especially engaged among women, other-gendered, and nonheterosexual respondents. The article highlights Sinophone audiences’ heightened concern over legality and focus on family rules, contrasting Anglophone emphasis on intimacy. These findings inform debates on pornography, sexuality, and intercultural youth culture. |
Journal Articles |
English |
sociology |
women; LGBTQ; sexuality |
General |
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Madill, Anna, and Yao Zhao. “Engagement with Female-Oriented Male–Male Incest Erotica: A Comparison of Sinophone and Anglophone Boys’ Love Fandom.” Delta𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳 43, no. 5 (2021): 607–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2021.1891845. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2021.1891845 |
| 40 |
Sinophone Becoming in Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) |
Letteri, Richard; Huang, Zac |
Routledge |
2023.0 |
This article reinterprets Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000) as more than a melodramatic allegory of Hong Kong’s post-1997 political uncertainty. It argues that the film portrays a mode of life and identity resisting Chinese essentialism. Through analysis of Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chen’s role-playing, the non-linear temporality, and the film’s interplay of Eastern and Western cultural elements, the study employs Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the crystal image. It contends that Wong’s repeated use of the crystal image opens possibilities for deterritorialization and articulates a “Sinophone becoming” for individuals and communities within the Chinese diaspora. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
identity; deterritorialization; diaspora; Wong, Kar-Wai |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Letteri, Richard, and Zac Huang. “Sinophone Becoming in Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000).” 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴 14, no. 3 (2023): 201–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2023.2210909. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2023.2210909 |
| 41 |
Queer Sinophone Media across Asian Regionalism |
Wong, Alvin K. |
University of Michigan Press |
2023.0 |
This article develops the concept of queer Sinophone media, exploring how queer expressions circulate within Sinitic-language communities across Asian regional networks. Drawing on a personal visit to Tai O, Hong Kong, the author frames queer regionalism as emerging through local and transnational media flows. He analyzes ViuTV’s Ossan’s Love remake—casting Cantopop stars—as a demonstration of queer regional imaginaries, and the Taiwanese queer film Your Name Engraved Herein through its Netflix diffusion. These examples illuminate the horizontal, intra-regional traffic of queerness across Sinophone Asia and beyond, challenging state-centric narratives and underscoring evolving media, fandom, and desire in queer Sinophone contexts. |
Journal Articles |
English |
mass media |
LGBTQ; regionalism |
East Asia |
Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Wong, Alvin K. "Queer Sinophone Media across Asian Regionalism." 𝘑𝘊𝘔𝘚 62, no. 3 (2023): 159-63. |
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/images/13_62.3wong.pdf |
| 42 |
Chang Kuei-Hsing as Sinophone Sarawakian Writer |
Shih, Shu-mei |
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2023.0 |
This article repositions Chang Kuei-hsing as a Sarawakian, or more precisely Sarawakian Taiwanese, writer rather than a Malaysian author. Although Chang became a Taiwanese citizen in the 1980s, his major novels are set in Sarawak and engage critically with the region’s history. The study highlights how Chang’s narratives implicate Chinese settlers and their descendants in the exploitation of the Borneo Rainforest and the dispossession of Dayak peoples. It argues that these moments of self-critique articulate a Sinophone ethic grounded in place-based specificity, confronting historical complicity while redefining Sinophone literature through localized engagements with colonialism, migration, and environmental exploitation. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity; indigeneity |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Shih, Shu-mei. “Chang Kuei-Hsing as Sinophone Sarawakian Writer.” 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 54, nos. 1–2 (2023): 11–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2205780. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2205780 |
| 43 |
Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific |
Shih, Shu-mei |
University of California Press |
2007.0 |
This book inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies through a critical exploration of visual culture across Sinitic-language communities in the Pacific. Engaging with Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational theory, it examines how images shape and mediate identity under global capitalism. Centering on what the author terms the "Sinophone Pacific"—including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America—the book rethinks the global dispersal of Chinese-speaking peoples. Rather than framing identity through ethnicity or nationality, it highlights the cultural and linguistic diversity of Sinitic-language communities, offering a vital intervention in the study of global Chinese cultures. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
identity; diaspora; cultural articulation |
General |
|
Shih, Shu-Mei. 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤. University of California Press, 2007. |
Publisher's page: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/visuality-and-identity/pdf |
| 44 |
馬來西亞華語語系文學 = On Sinophone Malaysian literature |
Tee, Kim Tong 張錦忠 |
有人出版社 |
2011.0 |
This concise volume offers a clear, accessible overview of Chinese-language (華語) literature produced in Malaysia (“Mahua literature”), tracing its historical evolution, defining its literary identity, and situating it within Malaysia’s multilinguistic, multiethnic context. Zhang re-examines the definitions, characteristics, and historical development of Mahua literature. He discusses the shifts from realism to modernism, and contrasts its development on the peninsula and among the diaspora — including conditions of Mahua writers living in Taiwan. The book includes a critical bibliography and a chronologically ordered list of major Mahua works, plus over 100 photos of authors and book covers. It aims to present the complexity and diversity of Mahua literature in a compact, reader-friendly format. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
diaspora; multiculturalism |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
張錦忠. 馬來西亞華語語系文學. 有人出版社, 2011. |
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| 45 |
Deep Imperial Time in Sinophone Poetics of History |
Yeung, Wayne C. F. |
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2024.0 |
This article analyzes three Sinophone cultural texts to explore how Sinophone studies can challenge the conceptual boundary of “premodern” imperial China. Through works by Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan) and Xi Xi and Wong Bik-wan (Hong Kong), it introduces “deep imperial time” as a Sinophone historical poetics and strategy of deimperialization. The study argues that these artists transform Sinophone sensibilities into historiographical methods that intervene in nation-centric narratives, enacting localized and decentered visions of historical Chineseness. By emphasizing marginality and interimperial positionality, the article contends that Sinophone studies can broaden decoloniality by incorporating subaltern experiences and contesting non-Western imperial formations. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
deimperialization; decoloniality; Chineseness |
East Asia |
Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Yeung, Wayne C. F. "Deep Imperial Time in Sinophone Poetics of History." Journal of Asian Studies 83, no. 1 (2024): 19–40. https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-10875304. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-10875304 |
| 46 |
Fluid Horizons: Oceanic Epistemologies and Sinophone Literature |
Volland, Nicolai |
Duke University Press |
2022.0 |
This article revisits Sinophone literature from the archipelagic western Pacific to explore how thinking with and through the ocean shapes place-making and identity formation. Focusing on stories by Syaman Rapongan and Ng Kim Chew, it demonstrates how the ocean functions as a locale, an object of characters’ yearnings, and a condition of being. Metaphorically and allegorically, the ocean critiques (neo)colonial violence, modernity, and land-based epistemologies. The paper develops the concept of oceanic epistemologies, showing how these Sinophone literatures offer systems of knowledge intertwined with the ocean, rethinking questions of being, identity, and history while moving beyond traditional Sinophone critical frameworks. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
literary geography; oceanic epistemologies; identity |
General |
|
Volland, Nicolai. "Fluid Horizons: Oceanic Epistemologies and Sinophone Literature." Prism 19, no. 2 (2022): 337–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966677. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966677 |
| 47 |
Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World |
Tan, E. K. |
Cambria Press |
2013.0 |
This book explores Sinophone literature from the Nanyang Chinese communities of Borneo, Malaysia, and Singapore, focusing on writers such as Kuo Pao Kun, Chang Kuei-hsing, and Vyvyane Loh. It examines their complex ties to both ancestral homelands and an imagined China, offering a nuanced view of identity, ethnicity, and cultural belonging. Addressing the gap between Chinese- and English-language scholarship, the book brings Nanyang voices into broader Sinophone and diaspora studies. By rethinking "Chineseness" through the lens of localized experience, it highlights the unique cultural position of the Nanyang Chinese within global Sinophone literary and cultural discourse. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
identity; diaspora; ethnicity; Chineseness; transnationalism; |
Southeast Asia |
Borneo; Malaysia; Singapore |
Tan, E. K. Rethinking Chineseness : Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World. Cambria Press, 2013. |
Publisher's page: https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=535 |
| 48 |
Zeitgenössische Sinophone Literatur in Thailand |
Ehrenwirth, Rebecca |
Harrassowitz Verlag |
2018.0 |
This book offers a rare glimpse into contemporary Sinophone literature in Thailand, focusing on Bangkok-born writers Sima Gong and Zeng Xin. As pioneers of Sinophone short stories and poetry, their works explore themes of identity, belonging, and cultural memory, reflecting deep connections to both China and Thailand. Featuring over 120 translated texts—many appearing in German for the first time—the book combines literary analysis with a historical overview of Chinese migration to Thailand. It highlights a uniquely successful case of cultural integration and contributes to broader discussions in Sinophone, diaspora, and Southeast Asian literary studies. |
Monographs |
Chinese; German |
literature |
identity; migrants; ethnicity |
Southeast Asia |
Thailand |
Ehrenwirth, Rebecca. Zeitgenössische Sinophone Literatur in Thailand. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. |
Jstor page: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11sn4nr |
| 49 |
Complicating Raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone |
Wong, Andrew D. ; Su, Hsi-Yao ; Hiramoto, Mie |
Elsevier Ltd |
2021.0 |
Wong, Su, and Hiramoto expands raciolinguistics by centering Sinophone communities in debates about language, race, and identity. They argue that Chineseness—entangled with Han-ness, nationality, and race—is a dynamic, contested category, especially when viewed from the margins of the Sinophone world. Drawing from ethnographic case studies in Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the U.S., the authors show how language practices mediate racial subjectivity and destabilize essentialist notions of Chinese identity. This article calls for a broader, more globally grounded raciolinguistics that critically engages with the complexities of Chineseness. |
Special Issue |
English |
linguistics |
raciolinguistics; language ideologies; ethnic marginality |
General |
|
Wong, Andrew D., Hsi-Yao Su, and Mie Hiramoto. "Complicating Raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone." Language & Communication, vol. 76, no. 1 (2021): 131–135. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530920301075 |
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530920301075 |
| 50 |
Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies |
Chiang, Howard ; Wong, Alvin K |
Routledge |
2020.0 |
This book maps a new interdisciplinary framework at the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, advancing transnational research on non-normative genders, sexualities, and bodies. Challenging Western-centric models, it brings together case studies and empirical analyses that explore keywords such as transpacific, viscerality, fandom, postcoloniality, ethnicity and activism. Contributors engage diverse cultural sites and mediums—including literature, film, and digital media—to illuminate how Sinophone contexts reshape queer discourse. Bridging fields like ethnic studies, anthropology, and political theory, the volume situates Sinophone queer experience as central to global debates, offering students and scholars new tools for rethinking identity, power, and cultural production across borders. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
LGBTQ; transpacific; viscerality; fandom; postcoloniality; ethnicity; activism |
General |
|
Chiang, Howard, and Alvin K. Wong, eds. Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies. Routledge, 2020. |
Publisher's page: https://www.routledge.com/Keywords-in-Queer-Sinophone-Studies/Chiang-Wong/p/book/9781032236803?srsltid=AfmBOoqr5goKYjkRT74Rv1jdb1xUqS4VPooBX1efYwRWSw3ZwSpqs-yH |
| 51 |
Queer Sinophone Cultures |
Chiang, Howard ; Heinrich, Ari Larissa |
Routledge |
2014.0 |
This book examines the intersection of Sinophone and queer studies, highlighting how Chinese-speaking communities outside mainland China—such as those in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore—challenge dominant cultural and sexual binaries. Addressing the marginalization of non-Western queer experiences, it explores how filmmakers and writers creatively engage local contexts to articulate diverse forms of queerness. Through case studies ranging from Tsai Ming-Liang’s films to Shaw Brothers’ soft-core pornography, the study reveals how Sinophone cultures generate new critical vocabularies. In doing so, it repositions queer theory and Sinophone studies within a broader, transnational framework of cultural and scholarly inquiry. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
LGBTQ; mass media; postcolonialism; Tsai Ming-Liang |
General |
|
Chiang, Howard, and Ari Larissa Heinrich, eds. Queer Sinophone Cultures. Routledge, 2014. |
Publisher's page: https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Sinophone-Cultures/Chiang-Heinrich/p/book/9780815371175?srsltid=AfmBOor9X46Sst9twCSUyosT60Oegnp-CkpudaXG6I8oyllXLHVVm6rF |
| 52 |
Queer Migration across the Sinophone World: Queer Chinese Malaysian Students' Educational Mobility to Taiwan |
Yu, Ting-Fai |
Routledge |
2021.0 |
Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of Chinese Malaysian students’ educational mobility, this article examines the experiences, everyday practices, and future aspirations of queer informants who studied in Taiwan and returned to Malaysia. It demonstrates how tensions between ethnic and sexual identities are reconfigured and how new forms of queer relationality and subject positions emerge through student migration across the Chinese-speaking world. The study theorizes transnational queer Chinese cultures via queer Sinophone Malaysia and concludes with a case study of transnational queer activism, highlighting how returned migrants enact activism in everyday life settings. |
Journal Articles |
English |
education |
LGBTQ; ethnography; migrants; mobility; transnationalism; cultural articulation |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Yu, Ting-Fai. “Queer Migration across the Sinophone World: Queer Chinese Malaysian Students’ Educational Mobility to Taiwan.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47, no. 15 (2020): 3549–63. https//doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1750946. |
https//doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1750946 |
| 53 |
The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture: Altering Archives |
Peng Hsiao-yen ; Ella Raidel |
Routledge |
2018.0 |
This book examines how contemporary Sinophone cinemas in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong function as visual archives that preserve, contest, and rewrite histories. Challenging monolithic narratives of the past, it highlights how filmmakers and artists use image culture to assert alternative political memories and cultural identities. Featuring contributions from scholars, curators, and practitioners, the ten chapters engage diverse methods to explore the archival potential of film and media. Through interdisciplinary analysis, the study positions Sinophone image-making as a critical site for reimagining historical consciousness and negotiating the complexities of memory across Sinitic language communities. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
cinema |
memory |
General |
|
Peng, Hsiao-yen, and Ella Raidel, eds. The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture: Altering Archives. Routledge, 2018. |
Publisher's page: https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-of-Memory-in-Sinophone-Cinemas-and-Image-Culture-Altering-Archives/Hsiao-yen-Raidel/p/book/9780367209278?srsltid=AfmBOoqED-zLBBudkig1UfgQhmfrMF-aKwBZbKG-BMhTsPx696t6jg9T |
| 54 |
Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms |
Tan, See Kam |
Edinburgh University Press |
2021.0 |
This book examines the evolution of Hong Kong cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1980s, highlighting its role in shaping alternative visions of China and Chineseness. Through analysis of genres such as Huangmei Opera films, queer romance, erotic cinema, and Hong Kong’s Bond-style films, it reveals how Sinophone filmmakers forged a distinct cinematic identity amid shifting cultural and economic landscapes. By exploring sinification and transnationalism in film, the book offers new insights into the cosmopolitan aspirations of Hong Kong cinema and its lasting impact on Sinophone cultural production and global film studies. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
transnationalism; Chineseness |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Tan, See Kam. Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. |
Publisher's page: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hong-kong-cinema-and-sinophone-transnationalisms.html |
| 55 |
Literary Representations of "Mainlanders" in Taiwan: Becoming Sinophone |
Huang, Phyllis Yu-ting |
Routledge |
2020.0 |
This book explores how second-generation mainlander writers in Taiwan narrate shifting identities shaped by emotional ambivalence between China and Taiwan. Focusing on literary portrayals of Chinese civil war migrants and their descendants, it examines how notions of “China” and “Chineseness” evolve over time. Drawing on Sinophone and memory studies, the book argues that as Taiwan transitioned from authoritarianism to democracy, mainlander identity moved from a diasporic Chinese framework to a more fluid, hybrid Sinophone identity. Through close readings of eight literary works, it challenges dominant Sinocentric narratives and contributes to broader conversations in Sinophone and diaspora studies. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
migrants; identity ; Chineseness |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Huang, Phyllis Yu-ting. Literary Representations of "Mainlanders" in Taiwan: Becoming Sinophone. Routledge, 2020. |
Publisher's page: https://www.routledge.com/Literary-Representations-of-Mainlanders-in-Taiwan-Becoming-Sinophone/Huang/p/book/9780367648800?srsltid=AfmBOoqBYOTZEGLbKVZTg1cy7Zv5V2b26BKPaDaytcRCcLq4O4clxoef\n |
| 56 |
Sinophone Cinemas |
Yue, Audrey ; Khoo, Olivia |
Palgrave Macmillan |
2014.0 |
This book explores the multilingual and multidialectal screen cultures of Chinese-language communities beyond mainland China, focusing on locations such as Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Australia. Through case studies of commercial co-productions, short films, documentaries, and independent cinema, it highlights how Sinophone cinemas negotiate cultural identity, localization, and difference outside traditional diaspora frameworks. Addressing issues of production, distribution, and resistance, the chapters examine how language and politics intersect across varied contexts. By centering peripheral sites of Chinese-language filmmaking, the study redefines the boundaries of Sinophone cinema and expands critical approaches to global Chinese screen cultures. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
cinema |
localization; multilingualism |
General |
|
Yue, Audrey, and Olivia Khoo, eds. Sinophone Cinemas. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137311207 |
| 57 |
"Republic of Southern Sinophone Literature" and Its Memorandum: A Uchronian Hong Kong-Mahua Literary Relation |
Han, Song (Abel) ; Huang, Yu (Heidi) |
Brill |
2019.0 |
This essay reexamines two Sinophone literary uchronias: Ng Kim Chew’s dystopian depiction of the People’s Republic of Nanyang and Dung Kai-cheung’s fabrication of a disappeared street in Hong Kong. As representative Sinophone texts, these works not only rewrite local histories but also critically engage the geo-political conditions of the Sinophone sphere. Drawing on spatialized and materialist models of world literature studies, the essay investigates the Hong Kong–Mahua link and its world-making power, highlighting how Sinophone literature reimagines history and space while contributing to broader understandings of transregional literary and cultural production. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
memory; uchronia |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong; Malaysia |
Han, Song (Abel), and Yu (Heidi) Huang. "'Republic of Southern Sinophone Literature' and Its Memorandum: A Uchronian Hong Kong–Mahua Literary Relation." Journal of World Literature 4, no. 4 (2019): 488-507. https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00404003. |
https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00404003 |
| 58 |
Diasporic Histories: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism |
Riemenschnitter, Andrea ; Madsen, Deborah L. |
Hong Kong University Press |
2009.0 |
This book examines the cultural and political agency of Chinese migrant communities amid globalization, emphasizing how diasporic identities reinvent histories and challenge place-bound traditions and nationalist narratives. Through analyses of aesthetic texts and cultural theory, it explores fluid subjectivities, innovative modernities, and creative resistance to displacement and prejudice. Drawing from diverse regional and disciplinary perspectives, the volume investigates notions of loyalty, belonging, and transgression within diasporic experiences. By situating diaspora as a dynamic and influential force, the study highlights its far-reaching social and political implications for both home and host societies, reshaping contemporary transnational cultural and political discourses. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
migrants; diaspora; transnationalism |
General |
|
Riemenschnitter, Andrea, and Deborah L. Madsen, eds. Diasporic Histories: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism. Hong Kong University Press, 2009. |
Distributor's page: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo37844166.html |
| 59 |
Sinophone Thainess: The Problematic Landscape of Creolization in the Thai-Chinese Translation Zone |
Rattanakantadilok, Gritiya ; Tungkeunkunt, Kornphanat |
Routledge |
2023.0 |
This chapter examines the status of Chinese language and culture in Thailand compared to Malaysia and Singapore, highlighting how Thai state policies of assimilation—particularly in education—have diminished younger generations’ fluency in ancestral languages. Despite this, Thai writers of Chinese descent navigate and rework their heritage in literature, where Chinese elements may be either erased or affirmed. Thailand emerges as a translational zone where “creolization” describes the blending of Chinese and Thai cultural forms. This process of affirmation and denial, shaped by prevailing discourses, offers potential for more diverse literary sensibilities within Thai literary production. |
Book Chapters |
English |
language |
translation; localization; creolization |
Southeast Asia |
Thailand |
Rattanakantadilok, Gritiya, and Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt. "Sinophone Thainess: The Problematic Landscape of Creolization in the Thai-Chinese Translation Zone." In Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia, edited by Phrae Chittiphalangsri and Vicente L. Rafael. Routledge, 2023. |
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003322030-8/sinophone-thainess-gritiya-rattanakantadilok-kornphanat-tungkeunkunt |
| 60 |
Contesting Chineseness: Ethnicity Identity and Nation in China and Southeast Asia |
Hoon, Chang-Yau ; Chan, Ying-kit |
Springer |
2021.0 |
This book offers a comparative analysis of Chineseness by combining historical and contemporary perspectives on its social construction in China and the Southeast Asian diaspora. Focusing on mobile agents who negotiate, embrace, or reject Chinese identity, it explores how borders and histories shape fluid and contested ethnic formations. Through case studies, it examines themes ofauthenticity, authority, culture, identity, media, power, and international relations that influence representations of Chineseness. Highlighting its dynamic and fragmented nature across time and space, the volume provides new insights into identity politics, migration, and popular culture. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
ethnicity; identity; migration; Chineseness |
Cross-region |
China; Southeast Asia |
Hoon, Chang-Yau, and Ying-kit Chan, eds. Contesting Chineseness: Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia. Springer, 2021. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-33-6096-9 |
| 61 |
The Articulation of Anti-China-Centrism in Sinophone Malaysian Films |
Kuan, Chee Wah |
Routledge |
2019.0 |
This study examines how Sinophone Malaysian films engage with China-centrism to advocate for local identity. Drawing on Shih Shu-mei’s Sinophone concept, it analyzes emerging Chinese Malaysian filmmakers and their promotion of local Sinophone identity. Emphasizing anti-China-centrism, the study investigates filmmakers’ resistance to China-centrism in constructing local identities. Analysis of films such as South of South, Nasi Lemak 2.0, Petaling Street Warrior, Woohoo!, and Ice Kacang Puppy Love reveals a “from China to local” narrative. These films maintain distance from Chinese nationalism and highlight the creole language of Chinese Malaysians as a medium for expressing and enacting local Sinophone identities. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
localization; creolization; identity |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Kuan, Chee Wah. “The Articulation of Anti-China-Centrism in Sinophone Malaysian Films.” Popular Communication 17, no. 3 (2018): 219–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2018.1554809. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2018.1554809 |
| 62 |
"Bie zai tiqi" and You Mean the World to Me: Two Subversive Sinophone Malaysian Metatexts |
Paoliello, Antonio |
De Gruyter |
2020.0 |
This article explores the subversive nature of two Sinophone Malaysian cultural products: Ho Sok Fong’s short story "Bie zai tiqi" (2002) and Saw Teong Hin’s feature film You Mean the World to Me (2017). Despite differences in form, both employ metafictional and metanarrative devices to challenge factuality, blur boundaries between fiction and reality, and question cultural power dynamics and ethnic politics in Malaysia. The study highlights how these works contest the dominance of Mandarin as the preferred Sinitic cultural language and the notion that Malaysian literature and film must be in Malay. Linguistic choices in both works subvert conventional ideas of national culture and common ethnic language. |
Journal Articles |
English |
language |
metatext; ethnic identity |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Paoliello, Antonio. "'Bie zai tiqi' and You Mean the World to Me: Two Subversive Sinophone Malaysian Metatexts." Open Cultural Studies 4, no. 1 (2020): 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0006.\n |
https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0006 |
| 63 |
A Cultural Cartography of the Sinophone Diaspora in Southeast Asia: The Cinema of Midi Z |
Lee, Yu-Lin |
Duke University Press |
2023.0 |
This chapter explores Midi Z’s cinema as a critical lens on the contemporary Sinophone diaspora in Southeast Asia. Situating his work within postcolonial migration and global capitalism, the author argues that his films foreground the struggles of marginalized Chinese Burmese laborers, whose lives embody fraught negotiations of language, identity, and belonging. At once exposing exclusion and tracing transnational connections, Midi Z’s films reveal the precarious conditions shaping diasporic existence. By adapting and transforming Taiwan New Cinema aesthetics, his cinematic practice functions as cognitive mapping, offering a nuanced cartography of Sinophone cultural production across shifting geopolitical and social terrains. |
Book Chapters |
English |
cinema |
diaspora; migrants; communities; identity; Taiwan New Cinema |
Southeast Asia |
|
Lee, Yu-Lin. "A Cultural Cartography of the Sinophone Diaspora in Southeast Asia: The Cinema of Midi Z." In New World Orderings: China and the Global South, edited by Lisa Rofel and Carlos Rojas. Duke University Press, 2022. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023647-011 |
| 64 |
Reading China against the Grain: Imagining Communities |
Rojas, Carlos ; Sung, Mei-hwa |
Routledge |
2021.0 |
This volume explores how contemporary Chinese literature, both within and beyond China, shapes and challenges ideas of China and Chineseness. Centered on literature’s role in reinforcing or undermining national imaginaries, it offers fresh perspectives on well-known authors like Jin Yucheng and Mo Yan, alongside lesser-studied figures such as Larissa Lai and Xiaolu Guo. The book also highlights marginalized writers from Macau, Malaysia, and Korea, addressing themes of identity, representation, translation, and language. By engaging diverse regions and diasporic voices, it provides a comprehensive and nuanced view of contemporary Chinese literary production and its cultural significance. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
Chineseness ; imaginaries; identity; Jin Yucheng; Mo Yan; Larissa Lai; Xiaolu Guo; Yiling; Chang Kuei-hsing (Zhang Guixing) 張貴興; Kim Hak-ch’ŏl |
General |
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Rojas, Carlos, and Mei-hwa Sung, eds. Reading China against the Grain: Imagining Communities. Routledge, 2021. |
Publisher's page: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-China-Against-the-Grain-Imagining-Communities/Rojas-Sung/p/book/9780367415495?srsltid=AfmBOopi7wBGUlflvgVBo2fNLlV8KYxuOYV0a0iNjg4gT7plm2FVHxbq |
| 65 |
When Does "Diaspora" End and "Sinophone" Begin? |
Chen, Lingchei Letty |
Routledge |
2015.0 |
This article argues for understanding “diaspora” as an emotive and psychic disruption, a state of being mediated through memory, challenging Shu-mei Shih’s proposal of an “expiration date” for Chinese diaspora in Sinophone theorization. It closely reads two short stories by Sinophone writers through the lenses of postmemory and prosthetic memory, showing how various degrees of diasporic condition exist simultaneously across generations of Chinese migrants. By framing diaspora as a state of being through memory, the study positions it as a critical concept for rethinking and advancing the theorization of the Sinophone, emphasizing its affective and intergenerational dimensions. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
diaspora; memory; migrants |
General |
|
Chen, Lingchei Letty. “When Does ‘Diaspora’ End and 'Sinophone’ Begin?” Postcolonial Studies 18, no. 1 (2015): 52–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2015.1050975. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2015.1050975 |
| 66 |
Transpacific Attachments : Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness |
Wong, Lily |
Columbia University Press |
2018.0 |
This book traces the evolving figure of the Chinese prostitute in transpacific media—from early 20th-century Hollywood to contemporary Sinophone film and literature—as a site for negotiating Chinese identity and collective affect. Examining how this trope has been used to project racial anxieties, colonial fantasies, and reformist ideals, the book reveals how representations of the prostitute reflect shifting ideologies across U.S., Chinese, and Sinophone contexts. By analyzing media circulated across the Pacific, it shows how this figure mobilizes affect and memory, contributing to alternative understandings of “Chineseness” beyond national or ethnic frameworks within Sinophone and diaspora studies. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
women; new media; Chineseness; sexuality |
Cross-region |
East Asia; United States |
Wong, Lily. Transpacific Attachments : Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness. Columbia University Press, 2018. |
Publisher's page: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/transpacific-attachments/9780231183390/ |
| 67 |
Counter-discourse: Strategies of Representing Ethnic Minorities in Sinophone Malaysian Literature |
Khor, Boon Eng |
Duke University Press |
2022.0 |
This article examines how Chinese Malaysian (Mahua) authors depict other ethnic minorities, shifting focus from the familiar theme of Chinese marginalization under Malay-Bumiputra dominance. It identifies four counter-discursive strategies in literary representation—binary opposition, rhetorical questioning, paradoxical statements, and bystander narration—and illustrates them with examples from writers across different eras, regions, genders, and generations. The article argues that these strategies foreground minority voices and foster meaningful dialogue between the Sinophone community and other ethnic groups. It also shows that in some cases Mahua authors employ counter-discourse as a form of resistance to hegemonic state power in Malaysia. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
diaspora; ethnic groups |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Khor, Boon Eng. "Counter-discourse: Strategies of Representing Ethnic Minorities in Sinophone Malaysian Literature." Prism 19, no. 2 (2022): 428–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966727. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966727 |
| 68 |
Of Mamak Stalls and Malaysian Weather: Sinitic Languages and Identity in Ah Niu (阿牛)’s Sinophone Malaysian Pop Music |
Paoliello, Antonio |
Universidad de Sevilla |
2023.0 |
This article explores Malaysia as both an importer of Sinophone culture and a significant site of Sinitic-language cultural production, focusing on popular music. It highlights how many Malaysian Sinophone artists have gained transnational recognition, though their Malaysianness is often overlooked. Through a close reading of Ah Niu’s songs, the study demonstrates how his use of Sinitic languages conveys Malaysianness, foregrounds local features, and challenges the idea that only Bahasa Malaysia can express national culture. The article argues that Ah Niu’s music illustrates how Sinitic languages articulate a vibrant local identity that transcends Chineseness and disrupts center-periphery cultural hierarchies. |
Journal Articles |
English |
music |
identity; transnationalism; Malaysianness |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Paoliello, Antonio. "Of Mamak Stalls and Malaysian Weather: Sinitic Languages and Identity in Ah Niu (阿牛)’s Sinophone Malaysian Pop Music." Comunicación 21, no. 1 (2023): 23-37. |
https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/Comunicacion/article/view/23105/22629 |
| 69 |
Including China? Postcolonial Hong Kong, Sinophone Studies, and the Gendered Geopolitics of China-centrism |
Wong, Alvin K. |
Routledge |
2018.0 |
This article engages debates on how to “include China” within Sinophone studies, originally defined by Shu-mei Shih as cultural production on the margins of China and Chineseness. It introduces the concept of the “nearly historical” to describe speculative Hong Kong cultural texts that depict dystopian visions of political marginalization, censorship, class segmentation, and despair, while simultaneously generating hope and activism. Analyzing Chan Koonchung’s Hong Kong Trilogy, his dystopian novel Shengshi/The Year of Prosperity: China, 2013, and the television drama To Be or Not to Be, the article highlights how gender mediates Mainland–Hong Kong relations, reframing Sinophone cultural politics. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
geopolitics; gender; identity; censorship; border-crossing |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wong, Alvin K. “Including China? Postcolonial Hong Kong, Sinophone Studies, and the Gendered Geopolitics of China-Centrism.” Interventions 20, no. 8 (2018): 1101–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1460216. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1460216 |
| 70 |
Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora |
Tsu, Jing |
Harvard University Press |
2010.0 |
This book introduces the concept of “literary governance” to explore how language operates as a form of soft power in shaping literary production across local, national, and global contexts. It examines how the standardization of a national language fosters a sense of collective identity within the Chinese diaspora, while also revealing tensions with nonstandard dialects, multilingual writing, and competing linguistic practices. By highlighting both the unifying and divisive effects of language politics, the book offers a comparative model for understanding Sinophone literature and other literary traditions that transcend national and monolingual frameworks. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
diaspora; identity; communities; transnationalism |
General |
|
Tsu, Jing. Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora. Harvard University Press, 2010. |
Publisher's page: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674055407 |
| 71 |
The Visual Culture of Sinophone Modernism: Aw Boon Haw's Cultural Entrepreneurialism and Early Twentieth-Century's Architectural Eclecticism |
Chang, Jiat-Hwee |
NUS Press Pte Ltd |
2021.0 |
This article examines the eclectic architecture of three houses commissioned by Aw Boon Haw in Singapore and Hong Kong during the 1920s–30s to analyze architecture as part of the multimedia visual culture supporting his transnational pharmaceutical and media empires. Using cultural entrepreneurship as a framework, it shows how Aw mobilized artists, designers, and architects such as Kwan Wai Nung, Tchang Ju Chi, and Ho Kwong Yew to shape modern visual culture and accumulate social, cultural, and economic capital. The study further argues for examining Sinophone rather than solely Anglophone contexts to understand the transnational circulation of early twentieth-century modern art and design in Southeast Asia. |
Journal Articles |
English |
architecture |
transnationalism |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong; Singapore |
Chang, Jiat-Hwee. "The Visual Culture of Sinophone Modernism: Aw Boon Haw's Cultural Entrepreneurialism and Early Twentieth-Century's Architectural Eclecticism." Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia 5, no. 1 (2021): 47-96. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sen.2021.0002. |
https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sen.2021.0002 |
| 72 |
Hong Kong Popular Culture: Worlding Film, Television, and Pop Music |
Wang, Klavier J. |
Palgrave Macmillan |
2020.0 |
This book traces the century-long development of Hong Kong’s popular culture—film, television, and Cantopop—within the city’s shifting geopolitical, social, and cultural landscape. Moving beyond the film-centric narratives of the 1980s “golden age,” it examines how these cultural forms emerged from early Sinophone influences, evolved through cross-cultural hybridization, and responded to global and local political forces. Highlighting Hong Kong’s role as both a destination and departure point for Sinophone communities, the book explores how worlding processes shaped its cultural output. Drawing on archival research, policy analysis, and interviews, it offers a timely perspective on a culture in critical transition. |
Monographs |
English |
anthropology |
multiculturalism; cultural politics |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wang, Klavier J. Hong Kong Popular Culture: Worlding Film, Television, and Pop Music. Springer, 2020. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8817-0 |
| 73 |
Positions of Sinophone Representation in Jin's (金庸) Chivalric Topography |
Song, Weijie |
Purdue University Press |
2015.0 |
This article analyzes Jin Yong’s post-1949 Hong Kong chivalric imagination of imperial Beijing and the Ming–Qing transition to explore positions of Sinophone representation. It highlights how Jin’s literary topography moves between the political center of the Forbidden City and peripheral spaces such as Xinjiang’s Islamic community, Brunei, and Yangzhou. The study identifies dialectics of inclusive exclusion and exclusive inclusion that shaped Jin’s Cold War Hong Kong chivalric narratives. It argues that Jin’s remapping of China’s past articulates a frustrated yet flexible identity and constructs a supplementary yet self-sufficient “republic of letters” as a mode of Sinophone representation. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
historiography; wuxia; identity; topography |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Song, Weijie. "Positions of Sinophone Representation in Jin's (金庸) Chivalric Topography." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 17, no. 1 (2015). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2586. |
https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2586 |
| 74 |
Cultural Transplantation: The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore (1887-1945) |
Lam, Lap |
Brill Academic Publishers |
2023.0 |
This book examines the role of classical Chinese poetry in colonial Singapore, highlighting its adaptability and continued relevance within a modern, transregional context. Using the concept of cultural transplantation, it explores how classical poetry not only preserved literary ties to China but also engaged with the local political, social, and cultural environment. By situating these works within broader discussions of Singapore Chinese literature and Sinophone studies, the book enriches our understanding of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia and offers new insights into the evolving relationship between literary tradition, identity, and global Chinese cultural expression. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
poetry ; cultural transplantation; diaspora; identity |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Lam, Lap. Cultural Transplantation : The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore (1887‒1945). Brill, 2023. |
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004538924 |
| 75 |
Classical Chinese Poetry in Singapore: A Perspective of Sinophone Literature |
Wang, Bing |
Routledge |
2017.0 |
This article traces the evolution of classical Chinese poetry in Singapore in relation to successive waves of Chinese intellectual migration. It first examines late Qing officials’ travelogues, such as those of Zuo Binglong and Huang Zunxian, which emphasized exotic landscapes and broadening horizons. It then highlights the achievements of poets like Khoo Seok Wan and Pan Shou, along with works published in newspapers from the pre–World War II period to the 1970s, as the pinnacle of classical Chinese poetry in Singapore. Finally, it considers post-1980s developments, noting greater thematic diversity, digital circulation, and an overall decline in creative quality. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
historiography; poetry; migrants |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Bing, Wang. “Classical Chinese Poetry in Singapore: A Perspective of Sinophone Literature.” Monumenta Serica 65, no. 2 (2017): 421–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2017.1393982. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/02549948.2017.1393982 |
| 76 |
Narrating Ethnic Relations in Sinophone Malaysian Fiction: "Wei xiang" as a Case Study |
Paoliello, Antonio |
Firenze University Press |
2018.0 |
This article analyzes Ding Yun’s Sinophone Malaysian short story "Wei xiang" to examine how Sinophone literature represents Malaysia’s ethnic diversity. It argues that while Malay literature often pays little attention to interethnic interactions, many Sinophone Malaysian writers foreground them in their works. Through its portrayal of the struggles and preoccupations of Malaysians across ethnic boundaries, "Wei xiang" transcends the perception of Sinophone writing as sectional or community-based. The article further claims that, although not written in the national language, Ding Yun’s story should nevertheless be recognized as part of Kesusasteraan Nasional Malaysia (Malaysian national literature). |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
ethnic relations; nationalism |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Paoliello, Antonio. "Narrating Ethnic Relations in Sinophone Malaysian Fiction: 'Wei xiang' as a Case Study." LEA 7, no. 7 (2018): 263-78. https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-24417. |
https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-24417 |
| 77 |
Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia |
Ferrari, Rossella |
Palgrave Macmillan |
2020.0 |
This book offers the first in-depth study of performance collaboration networks across the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and their intersections with East Asian artistic communities. Focusing on the aesthetics and politics of collaboration, it proposes a new transnational framework for analyzing Sinophone theatre cultures. Emphasizing mobility and relationality, the book explores how intercultural performance circulates and evolves within and beyond East Asia. Drawing on fieldwork, interviews, and rare archival materials, it provides close readings and discourse analysis that deepen understanding of the dynamic, cross-border nature of Sinophone performance and its cultural significance in a global context. |
Monographs |
English |
theater |
transnationalism; intercultural |
East Asia |
|
Ferrari, Rossella. Transnational Chinese Theatres Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia. Springer, 2020. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-37273-6 |
| 78 |
Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas : Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons |
Bloom, Michelle E. |
University of Hawaii Press |
2016.0 |
This book explores the emergence of Sino-French cinema as a compelling example of transnational filmmaking that bridges the Sinophone and Francophone worlds. Focusing on films produced since 2000, it examines how Sinophone directors engage with French cinematic traditions through adaptation, intertextuality, and cross-cultural storytelling. These films often blur East-West boundaries, portraying France as alluring and cosmopolitan while offering nuanced depictions of Chinese and Taiwanese identity. Through detailed analysis of both well-known and overlooked works, the book highlights how Sino-French cinema redefines notions of cultural hybridity, contributing to broader conversations in film, Sinophone, and world cinema studies. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
transnationalism; intertextuality; cross-cultural |
Cross-region |
China; France; Taiwan |
Bloom, Michelle E. Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons. University of Hawaii Press, 2016. |
Publisher's page: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/contemporary-sino-french-cinemas-absent-fathers-banned-books-and-red-balloons/ |
| 79 |
Reorienting Sinophone America through ‘Sinophone Orientalism’ |
Li, Melody Yunzi |
Routledge |
2021.0 |
This chapter introduces “Sinophone Orientalism” as a theoretical framework for analyzing Sinophone Chinese American literature, combining insights from Orientalism and Sinophone studies. The author examines how spatial orientations such as East, West, and South operate within these texts to complicate or resist Orientalist discourse. The “South” emerges as a site for expressing immigrants’ personal struggles and affective experiences, while the East and West Coasts function as heterotopias that juxtapose utopian possibilities with dystopian realities. The chapter ultimately argues that by reimagining East–West and North–South geographies, Sinophone Chinese American literature destabilizes hegemonic binaries and reconfigures power within global cultural discourse. |
Book Chapters |
English |
literature |
transnationalism; orientalism; migrants |
North America |
United States |
Li, Melody Yunzi. "Reorienting Sinophone America through ‘Sinophone Orientalism’." In Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film: Beyond East and West, edited by Sharmani Patricia Gabriel and Bernard Wilson. Routledge, 2021. |
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003105367-15/reorienting-sinophone-america-sinophone-orientalism-melody-yunzi-li |
| 80 |
Poetics of Propensity in Sinophone Fiction: An Analysis of Lai Hsiang-yin and Lee Wai Yi's Ghost Narrative |
Chao, Di Kai ; Moratto, Riccardo |
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2023.0 |
This article analyzes Lai Hsiang-yin’s Rain Tree (2017, Taiwan) and Lee Wai Yi’s Away (2018, Hong Kong) to explore how ghost narratives function as mobile strategies for interrogating modernity. It argues that through the “de-temporalization” of urban space, Rain Tree reconsiders Taiwan as a superior signifier, while Away exposes the ghostly underside of Hong Kong’s instrumental rationality. By situating the texts within a Sinophone framework, the study highlights how spectral figures enact a poetics of “propensity” (shi 勢), transcending fixed categories of identity and challenging notions of rootedness through fluid, non-representational forms beyond psychoanalytic or postcolonial paradigms. |
Journal Articles |
English; Italian |
literature |
supernatural; modernity |
East Asia |
Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Chao, Di Kai, and Riccardo Moratto. “Poetics of Propensity in Sinophone Fiction. An Analysis of Lai Hsiang‑yin and Lee Wai Yi’s Ghost Narrative.” Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale 59 (2023): 429‑54. https://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385‑3042/2023/01/016. |
https://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385‑3042/2023/01/016 |
| 81 |
Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks Voice, Ethnicity, Power |
Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim |
Palgrave Macmillan |
2021.0 |
This book offers a fresh approach to the study of Chinese film stardom by introducing a “linguaphonic” model that shifts attention from visual spectacle and bodily performance to voice, speech, and sound. Focusing on stars across generations—from Bruce Lee and Michelle Yeoh to Liu Yifei and Jay Chou—it explores how vocal expression shapes perceptions of Chineseness and ethnic identity. By analyzing the aural dimensions of stardom, it challenges conventional visual-centric frameworks and redefines how celebrity, language, and ideology intersect in the global media landscape, enriching broader conversations in film, Sinophone, and transnational cultural studies. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
identity; Chineseness; ethnicity |
Cross-region |
Asia; United States |
Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim. Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks Voice, Ethnicity, Power. Springer, 2021. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-0313-6 |
| 82 |
Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere |
Cheah, Pheng ; Hau, Caroline S. |
Duke University Press |
2022.0 |
Siting Postcoloniality rethinks postcolonial theory by centering the East Asian Sinosphere—a region historically shaped by China’s cultural, political, and ideological influence. Contributors examine diverse colonial and postcolonial experiences in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, challenging Eurocentric binaries like colonizer/colonized and center/periphery. Topics include socialist China's divergence from Soviet models, Taiwan's colonial legacies, and diasporic perspectives. The volume critiques the limits of Western postcolonial theory and proposes new frameworks grounded in regional histories and complexities. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
decolonization; colonial legacies; ; diaspora; cultural hegemony |
Cross-region |
East Asia; Southeast Asia |
Cheah, Pheng, and Caroline S. Hau, eds. Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere. Duke University Press, 2022. |
https://dukeupress.edu/siting-postcoloniality |
| 83 |
Theory, Asia and the Sinophone |
Shih, Shu-mei |
Taylor & Francis Group |
2010.0 |
This article examines the politics of the majoritarian binary “The West and the Rest,” and more specifically, “Western Theory, Asian Reality,” as a politics of power that serves specific interests, including imperialism, nationalism, and the suppression of heterogeneity in languages, ethnicities, and cultures. The study posits the Sinophone as a presence—literary and otherwise—that interrupts this majoritarian binary by challenging the assumed chain of equivalence among ethnicity, language, and nationality. It emphasizes the Sinophone’s capacity to contest dominant frameworks and assert alternative modes of cultural and literary existence. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
identity; colonialism; imperialism; nationalism |
General |
|
Shih, Shu-mei. “Theory, Asia and the Sinophone.” Postcolonial Studies 13, no. 4 (2010): 465–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2010.525213. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2010.525213 |
| 84 |
Intermingled Fascinations: Migration, Displacement, and Translation in World Cinema |
Wilson, Flannery ; Correia, Jane Ramey |
Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
2011.0 |
This edited volume examines themes of migration, exile, and incarceration in transnational cinema, focusing on Sinophone and Franco-Japanese contexts. Each chapter analyzes two or more films, exploring how characters embody and navigate displacement, linguistic disconnection, and cultural translation. By centering cinematic portrayals of transnational movement and miscommunication, the essays highlight cinema’s role in representing and shaping global experiences of mobility, loss, and transformation. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
cinema |
migration; displacement; exile;; imprisonment; ; translation; miscommunication |
Cross-region |
China; Europe |
Wilson, Flannery, and Jane Ramey Correia, eds. Intermingled Fascinations: Migration, Displacement, and Translation in World Cinema. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. |
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-2954-0 |
| 85 |
A New Species: Gender Sexuality and Taxonomic Logics in Sinophone Communities |
Rojas, Carlos |
Duke University Press |
2020.0 |
This article takes as its starting point Michel Foucault’s metaphor of the biological species, in which “the homosexual was now a new species,” to examine the surge of homoerotic activities and cultural representations in Greater China in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Focusing on four literary works around 1994, it explores how queer individuals are positioned in relation to modern institutional structures—biology/science, reportage/media, medicine/activism, and policing/psychiatry. The study highlights how these works show the ability of queer subjects to intervene in discursive formations and narrativize their own identities within these institutional contexts. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
LGBTQ; gender; identity; sexuality |
East Asia |
China |
Rojas, Carlos. “'A New Species': Gender, Sexuality, and Taxonomic Logics in Sinophone Communities Available to Purchase." Prism 17, no. 2 (2020): 277–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8690396. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8690396 |
| 86 |
"Do Cultures Leak into Each Other?": Polycultural Considerations in Selected Malaysian Anglophone and Sinophone Texts |
Sim, Wai Chew |
中山大學文學院 |
2020.0 |
This essay tracks “emergent” moments in recent Malaysian Anglophone and Sinophone fiction. Drawing on Vijay Prashad’s notion of polyculturalism, it argues that these moments offer an alternative to the dominant “identity politics” framework for reading postcolonial texts, advocating instead a politics of commonality grounded in the existential imperative to rebuild human engagement and relationality with nature. The study shows how such emergent moments loosen the “confines” of ethnic particularity without abandoning historically sedimented forms of solidarity, providing a heuristic for reading other texts in the cultural archive to discover, analyze, and disseminate border-crossing affordances in literature and culture. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity; multiculturalism; polyculturalism; postcolonialism |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Sim, Wai Chew 沈偉赳. "'Do Cultures Leak into Each Other?' : Polycultural Considerations in Selected Malaysian Anglophone and Sinophone Texts." Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 49 (2020): 1-18. |
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| 87 |
Diverse Fragility, Fragile Diversity: Sinophone Writing in the Philippines and Indonesia |
Stenberg, Josh |
Routledge |
2023.0 |
This article examines postwar Chinese-language letters in Indonesia and the Philippines, highlighting a pronounced tendency toward long-distance cultural nationalism rather than hybrid or local modes. It argues that omitting cultural nationalist discourses skews understandings of Sinophone production, as many Chinese-language authors responded to ethnic, cultural, and political appeals from China. The study notes the irony that production in Chinese, rather than imperial or archipelagic languages, challenges postmodern and postcolonial readings. It contends that Sinophone Studies should accommodate culturally and politically orthodox Chinese strands, revealing the region’s Sinophone cultural production as a politically diverse network with rich comparative intraregional potential. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity; nationalism; Chineseness |
Southeast Asia |
Indonesia; Philippines |
Stenberg, Josh. “Diverse Fragility, Fragile Diversity: Sinophone Writing in the Philippines and Indonesia.” Asian Ethnicity 24, no. 1 (2021): 59–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2021.1951598. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2021.1951598 |
| 88 |
Where Jameson Meets Queer Theory: Queer Cognitive Mapping in 1990s Sinophone Cinema |
Wong, Alvin K. |
Rutgers University Press |
2022.0 |
This chapter explores the intersection of urbanization, queer sexuality, and postmodernity in the films of Tsai Ming-liang, a leading queer Taiwanese filmmaker. Building on Fredric Jameson’s theorization of postmodernism, the author develops the concept of queer cognitive mapping by engaging questions of affect, queer theory, and cinematic form. The analysis rethinks Jameson’s account of postmodernism by emphasizing affect and connecting it to the later affective turn in queer theory. Advocating a horizontal comparative method, the author demonstrates how queer Sinophone cinema reconfigures Marxism, queer theory, postmodernism, and global film studies, revealing uneven dynamics of gender, sexuality, and desire in transnational contexts. |
Book Chapters |
English |
cinema |
LGBTQ; cognitive mapping; postmodernity; sexuality; urbanization |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Wong, Alvin K. "Where Jameson Meets Queer Theory: Queer Cognitive Mapping in 1990s Sinophone Cinema." In Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema, edited by Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski, and Michael Cramer. Rutgers University Press, 2022. |
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.36019/9781978808904/html |
| 89 |
Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery during the Cold War |
Chin, Angelina Y. |
Columbia University Press |
2023.0 |
This book reexamines the formation of Hong Kong identity by centering the experiences of diverse border-crossers who fled mainland China between the 1940s and 1980s. Challenging triumphalist migration narratives, it highlights the complexities of displacement, exile, and marginalization in colonial Hong Kong. Through archival research, oral histories, and media analysis, it uncovers how political identity in Hong Kong emerged not only from immigrant resilience under colonial capitalism, but also from shared traumas of escape and loss. This study broadens understandings of Sinophone identity and repositions Hong Kong within global Cold War and postcolonial dynamics. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
migrants; Cold War; border-crossing; identity; memory |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Chin, Angelina Y. Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery during the Cold War. Columbia University Press, 2023. |
Publisher's page: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/unsettling-exiles/9780231558211/ |
| 90 |
Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature |
Bernards, Brian |
University of Washington Press |
2015.0 |
This book explores postcolonial Sinophone literature of the South Seas (Nanyang), where Chinese migration, adaptation, and interethnic exchange shaped distinct settler cultures in Southeast Asia. By examining how these communities forged identities in relation to both local and ancestral contexts, it challenges dominant national literary frameworks. It argues for the inclusion of Nanyang narratives as integral to understanding the literary histories of both China and Southeast Asia, reframing the region’s role in Sinophone and postcolonial discourse. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
diaspora; nationalism |
Cross-region |
East Asia; Southeast Asia |
Bernards, Brian. Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature. University of Washington Press, 2015. |
Publisher's page: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295999968/writing-the-south-seas/ |
| 91 |
Accented Style: On Namewee's Sinophone Malaysian Film and Rap Songs |
Hee, Wai-Siam |
Routledge |
2019.0 |
This article examines Namewee’s rap music and film through the lens of Sinophone theory and accented cinema. Rather than interpreting his work through national or diasporic frameworks, Wai-Siam Hee positions Namewee as a postcolonial Sinophone Malaysian artist whose “accented style” emerges from localized, rather than exilic, experiences. The article argues that Namewee’s use of multilingual soundscapes and visual satire subverts dominant narratives about Chineseness, nationalism, and indigeneity in Malaysia. By refusing fixed ethnic frameworks and challenging mythologized Malay indigeneity, his works enact a form of “against-diaspora” critique that emphasizes mediation, hybridity, and resistance. This study broadens the scope of accented cinema to include localized minority expressions beyond exile, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of Sinophone cultural politics. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
sociolinguistics; rap music; accented style; localization |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Hee, Wai-Siam. “Accented Style: On Namewee’s Sinophone Malaysian Film and Rap Songs.” Interventions 21, no. 2 (2019): 273–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1528153. |
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| 92 |
Poetry, Politics and the Reception of Yu Guangzhong's "Nostalgia" |
Huang, Weiliang |
Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University |
2009.0 |
This chapter analyzes the reception of Yu Guangzhong’s poem Nostalgia and its transformation from a personal expression of longing into a politically charged cultural symbol. The author shows how the poem resonated differently across contexts: in Taiwan, it evoked displacement and anti-Communist sentiment, while on the mainland it was read as a lament for national division. The discussion demonstrates how literary texts can take on contested ideological meanings depending on historical and political circumstances. By tracing these shifts, the chapter highlights the interplay of poetry, politics, and identity in shaping cross-strait cultural discourse. |
Book Chapters |
English |
literature |
diaspora; nationalism |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Huang, Weiliang. "Poetry, Politics and the Reception of Yu Guangzhong's 'Nostalgia.' In Cultural Discourse in Taiwan, edited by Chin-Chuan Cheng, I-Chun Wang, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2009. |
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1085&context=clcweblibrary |
| 95 |
Reconsidering Sinophone Studies: The Chinese Cold War, Multiple Sinocentrisms, and Theoretical Generalisation |
Shi, Flair Donglai |
Brill |
2021.0 |
Flair Donglai Shi’s article critically examines Sinophone studies by identifying three key areas that require deeper reflection: the overlooked role of the Chinese Cold War in shaping transregional dynamics; the existence of multiple Sinocentrisms beyond a singular Chinese center; and the theoretical generalizations that risk overshadowing local complexities. Shi acknowledges the field’s contributions to highlighting Chinese-language cultural products and enriching academic discourse, especially in Anglophone and Taiwanese contexts. However, the essay cautions against uncritical applications of Sinophone frameworks without first engaging its ideological underpinnings and institutional foundations. The article argues for a more reflexive and historically grounded Sinophone meta-discourse, with particular attention to Taiwan’s formative role in shaping the field. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
Cold war; postcolonialism; Taiwan-centrism; Sinocentrism |
East Asia |
China; Taiwan |
Shi, Flair Donglai. “Reconsidering Sinophone Studies: The Chinese Cold War, Multiple Sinocentrisms, and Theoretical Generalisation.” International Journal of Taiwan Studies 4, no. 2 (2021): 311–344. |
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| 96 |
Worlding Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Towards a Paradigm of the Global South |
Tan, E. K. |
中山大學文學院 |
2021.0 |
E. K. Tan’s article proposes a “Sinophone Global South paradigm” to reframe Sinophone Malaysian literature as a critical response to global capitalism, settler colonialism, and indigenous sovereignty. Using Chang Kuei-hsing’s novels, particularly The Elephant Herd and Monkey Cup, Tan explores how Sinophone narratives, rooted in local and indigenous lifeworlds, resist both Western epistemology and Han-centric essentialism. Through “worlding” literature—a concept drawn from Gayatri Spivak and Pheng Cheah—Tan shows how literature from the margins articulates alternative modernities and decolonial knowledge systems. The article argues that Sinophone studies, aligned with Global South methodologies, can disrupt vertical power hierarchies and enable more relational, lateral solidarities, especially through critiques of global capitalism and affirmations of indigenous agency. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
Global South; capitalism; indigenous sovereignty; |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Tan, E. K. “Worlding Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Towards a Paradigm of the Global South.” Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 51 (2021): 129–154. |
full text: https://rpb17.nsysu.edu.tw/static/file/173/1173/img/3984/5129-154WorldingSinophoneMalasianLiterature_E.K.Tan.pdf |
| 97 |
反離散: 華語語系研究論 = Against diaspora : discourses on sinophone studies |
Shih, Shu-mei |
聯經 |
2017.0 |
The book examines the concept, uses, and methodologies of Sinophone inquiry, emphasizing locally rooted cultural formations that arise from continental colonialism, settler colonialism, and migration. Shih challenges nation-state–based linkages among language, ethnicity, and identity, instead foregrounding Sinophone communities at geopolitical margins. Across case studies from Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States, Shih highlights the polyphonic and polyscriptic qualities of Sinophone expression, revealing how writers navigate and hybridize Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin, Malay, English, Tamil, and Arabic. The book demonstrates Sinophone literature’s critical potential to rethink Chineseness, cultural production, and multilingual creativity beyond diaspora-based frameworks. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
multilingualism; diaspora; colonialism; migration; cultural politics |
General |
|
史書美. 反離散 : 華語語系研究論. 聯經, 2017. |
https://www.linkingbooks.com.tw/books/184462 |
| 98 |
Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics |
Huang, Yunte |
University of Chicago Press |
2023.0 |
This book explores poetry and poetics across the transpacific space, focusing on issues of translation, linguistic misunderstanding, and cultural transmission. Using the metaphor of "Chinese Whispers," it examines how miscommunication and distortion have shaped Western conceptions of China and how poetry—often resistant to full translation—challenges global frameworks of meaning. The study moves from early 20th-century efforts to standardize language through Basic English to digital media's pursuit of universal intelligibility, revealing the complex role of Chinese language in shaping transnational literary discourse. It offers fresh insight into comparative literature, globalization, and cross-cultural poetics. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
translation; poetry; globalization; transnationalism |
North America |
United States |
Huang, Yunte. Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics. University of Chicago Press, 2023. |
Publisher's page: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo182594144.html |
| 99 |
Rethinking the History of Chinese Empires from the Sinophone South |
Shen, Shuang |
Penn State University Press |
2022.0 |
Shuang Shen’s article explores the underrecognized intellectual histories of the “Sinophone South” by connecting Kuo Pao Kun’s maritime-themed plays with earlier expressions of Afro-Asian solidarity from the 1950s and 60s. Drawing on references to the Silk Road from Chinese delegates at the 1958 Afro-Asian Writers' Conference, Shen argues that Sinophone authors in Southeast Asia participated in Third-Worldist, anti-imperialist discourses that challenged the dominance of the nation-state as the sole framework for global cultural exchange. These cultural producers envisioned a circulatory, border-crossing history rooted in shared southern geographies and languages. However, their contributions have been marginalized in existing discussions of global Maoism and Third World cultural networks due to their nonnational positioning. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
Global South; diaspora; border-crossing; memory; nationalism |
Southeast Asia |
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Shen, Shuang. “Rethinking the History of Chinese Empires from the Sinophone South.” Comparative Literature Studies 59, no. 1 (2022): 123–141. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.59.1.0123. |
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| 100 |
Sinophone Classicism: Chineseness as Temporal and Mnemonic Experience in the Digital Era |
Yang, Zhiyi |
Cambridge University Press |
2022.0 |
Zhiyi Yang introduces the concept of Sinophone classicism to capture the renewed cultural expressions drawing from China’s classical heritage, especially within digital and global Sinophone contexts. Rather than framing these expressions as either fetishized nostalgia or authentic tradition, Yang emphasizes their local, vernacular, and digitally mediated functions. These practices offer a mnemonic and temporal experience of Chineseness, which resists monolithic notions of Chinese modernity and aligns with a broader post-Eurocentric turn in global scholarship. By conceptualizing classicism as a form of "antimodern modernism," Yang repositions it as a critical lens for understanding how cultural memory is performed, reinterpreted, and circulated in contemporary Sinophone communities. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
identity; classicism; Chineseness; cultural articulation |
General |
|
Yang, Zhiyi. “Sinophone Classicism: Chineseness as Temporal and Mnemonic Experience in the Digital Era.” The Journal of Asian Studies 81, no. 4 (2022): 657–671. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911822000726. |
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| 101 |
Queer Sinophone Malaysia: Language, Transnational Activism, and the Role of Taiwan |
Yu, Ting-Fai |
Routledge |
2022.0 |
Ting-Fai Yu’s article explores how language, particularly Chinese, functions as a primary marker of identity for LGBT communities in Malaysia, surpassing racial or ethnic categories typically emphasized in Global North contexts. Drawing on interviews with Chinese-speaking queer activists in Malaysia and Taiwan, the study examines how queer advocacy groups in urban centers like Kuala Lumpur organize themselves linguistically (e.g., “Chinese-speaking” or “Malay-speaking”) rather than ethnically. Yu argues that Chinese language not only facilitates grassroots mobilization under Malaysia’s illiberal regime but also connects local activists to broader Sinophone networks. The article further proposes “queer Sinophone Malaysia” as a conceptual framework and integrates qualitative methods to enrich Sinophone studies. |
Journal Articles |
English |
language |
localization; LGBTQ; articulation; ethnicity |
Cross-region |
Malaysia; Taiwan |
Yu, Ting-Fai. “Queer Sinophone Malaysia: Language, Transnational Activism, and the Role of Taiwan.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 43, no. 3 (May 2022): 303–318. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2061631. |
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| 102 |
Of Wind, Soil, and Water: On the Mesology of Sinophone/Xenophone Southeast Asian Literature |
Wang, David Der-wei |
Duke University Press |
2022.0 |
In “Of Wind, Soil, and Water,” David Der-wei Wang critiques the current trajectory of Sinophone studies, which often operates within a postcolonial framework emphasizing resistance to Chinese cultural hegemony. Wang argues that some of these approaches inadvertently mirror Sinocentrism by adopting a form of Sinophobia. Drawing on mesology (the study of environment and its relational dynamics), Wang proposes rethinking Sinophone Southeast Asian literature beyond oppositional binaries such as diaspora versus assimilation or Sinophone versus China. By invoking environmental metaphors—wind, soil, and water—he underscores the interconnectivity and rootedness of cultural identity and literary production, advocating for a relational, ecologically informed, and non-dualistic approach to Sinophone literary criticism. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
theory; mesology; identity; environmental relationality; postcolonial theory; Sinophobia; xenophone |
Cross-region |
East Asia; Southeast Asia |
Wang, David Der-wei. “Of Wind, Soil, and Water: On the Mesology of Sinophone/Xenophone Southeast Asian Literature.” Prism 19, no. 2 (September 2022): 283–300. https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9812437. |
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| 103 |
Research on the Beginnings of Cambodian Sinophone Literature: Mekong Yat Pao and Its Literary Supplements in the National Archives of Cambodia, 1957-1967 |
Lim, Pierre Mong |
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2020.0 |
Pierre Mong Lim’s article examines the origins of Cambodian Sinophone literature through a close study of the Mekong Yat Pao newspaper and its literary supplements from 1957 to 1967, housed in the National Archives of Cambodia. As one of the earliest platforms for Sino-Cambodian literary expression, Mekong Yat Pao provides insight into the evolution of genres and themes in relation to both local and geopolitical contexts. The study outlines the newspaper’s historical significance and offers a periodized reading of its literary content, tracing shifts in style, influence, and ideological alignment with concurrent political events in Cambodia and mainland China. Lim’s research fills a significant gap in Sinophone studies by documenting this understudied regional literary archive. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature\n |
historiography; Mekong Yat Pao; newspaper; geopolitics |
Southeast Asia |
Cambodia |
Lim, Pierre Mong. “Research on the Beginnings of Cambodian Sinophone Literature: Mekong Yat Pao and Its Literary Supplements in the National Archives of Cambodia, 1957–1967.” Journal of Chinese Overseas 16, no. 1 (May 2020): 117–134. https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341356. |
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| 104 |
Gender Transformations in Sinophone Taiwan |
Chiang, Howard |
Duke University Press |
2017.0 |
Howard Chiang’s article investigates the case of Xie Jianshun, the so-called “first” Chinese transsexual in postwar Taiwan, to explore gender transformation narratives in Sinophone Taiwan. Through media reports, public discourse, and related cultural materials from the 1950s, Chiang contextualizes the emergence of transsexual subjectivity in both medical and popular imaginaries. He highlights stories of gender ambiguity, intersexuality, and reproductive anomalies that surfaced during this period, revealing the cultural anxieties and fascination with bodily boundaries. Situating these stories within a Sinophone postcolonial framework, Chiang argues for an alternative historiography of transness that decenters Western epistemologies and offers a provincialized perspective on gender, identity, and queerness in the Chinese-speaking world. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
LGBTQ; gender transformation; intersexuality; postcolonialism |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Chiang, Howard. “Gender Transformations in Sinophone Taiwan.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 25, no. 3 (August 2017): 527–563. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3903391. |
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| 105 |
The Geopolitics of Queer Archives: Contested Chineseness and Queer Sinophone Affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan |
Liu, Wen; Li, Eva Cheuk Yin |
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2024.0 |
This article by Wen Liu and Eva Cheuk Yin Li introduces the concept of the "geopolitics of queer archives" to examine how queer affiliations and knowledges are produced and exchanged between Hong Kong and Taiwan—two Sinophone regions with unique colonial legacies yet increasingly entangled geopolitical realities due to China’s rising influence. Rather than centering the nation-state or global power blocs, the authors focus on minor–minor relationalities and grassroots queer exchanges that often remain invisible to mainstream international discourse. By analyzing developments in queer scholarship and activism since the 1980s, they critique dominant frameworks of Chineseness and caution against reapplying postcolonial critique without attending to the complexities of local and regional specificity, ultimately calling for a decentered, translocal approach to queer Sinophone studies. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
LGBTQ; Chineseness; postcolonialism |
East Asia |
Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Liu, Wen, and Eva Cheuk Yin Li. “The Geopolitics of Queer Archives: Contested Chineseness and Queer Sinophone Affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan.” Sexualities, March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241232397. |
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| 106 |
Toward a Sinophone Global South Paradigm: Chang Kuei-hsing's Monkey Cup as Example |
Tan, E. K. |
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2023.0 |
This article by E. K. Tan proposes a Sinophone Global South paradigm through a reading of Chang Kuei-hsing’s novel Monkey Cup. It examines how literature from the margins, specifically Sinophone Malaysian writing, engages in decolonial critique of global capitalism and colonial structures. Tan suggests that Chang’s work enables a process of “unlearning” and “reworlding,” articulating alternative forms of knowledge rooted in indigenous and minoritized experiences. By situating Chang’s text within Global South discourse, the article challenges dominant frameworks and calls for greater attention to how underrepresented communities articulate resistance and meaning-making beyond national and Eurocentric narratives. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
Global South; decolonization; postcolonial studies |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Tan, E. K. “Toward a Sinophone Global South Paradigm: Chang Kuei-hsing’s Monkey Cup as Example.” Chinese Literature and Thought Today 54, no. 1–2 (April 2023): 18–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/10917548.2023.2198472. |
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| 107 |
Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices |
Klöter, Henning ; Söderblom Saarela, Mårten, |
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
2021.0 |
This edited volume investigates the rich multilingual landscape of the Sinophone world through historical, policy-oriented, and sociolinguistic lenses. Spanning Qing dynasty language ideologies, missionary romanization, and Englishes in East and Southeast Asia, the first section charts evolving linguistic hierarchies. The second section critically compares language planning across Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, and mainland China. The final section turns to contemporary practices, including code-switching, language resistance, and syntactic variation. The collection offers a sociolinguistic intervention in Sinophone studies, emphasizing identity formation, policy negotiation, and vernacular multiplicity. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
linguistics |
multilingualism; language policy; language ideology; language variation |
General |
|
Klöter, Henning, and Mårten Söderblom Saarela, eds. Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. |
https://www.routledge.com/Language-Diversity-in-the-Sinophone-World-Historical-Trajectories-Language-Planning-and-Multilingual-Practices/Kloter-SoderblomSaarela/p/book/9780367562656?srsltid=AfmBOopDq8w9-x0nFsgt9Ymm_mxcNKNqcYQlqnLcWFwesqzg7jww-VCy |
| 108 |
Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas |
Hoogervorst, Tom ; Chia, Caroline |
Brill |
2021.0 |
This volume investigates the multilingual realities of Chinese communities across Southeast Asia, highlighting historically and socially situated linguistic practices often marginalized by dominant narratives of linguistic standardization. Drawing on archival sources and original fieldwork, contributors trace how Sinitic languages have adapted, mixed, and persisted in localized forms across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and beyond, showcasing the region's hybrid linguistic ecologies and enriches Sinophone studies by centering Southeast Asian voices and vocabularies shaped by colonialism, migration, and cultural localization. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
language |
linguistic hybridity; language and diaspora; localization; multilingualism |
Southeast Asia |
|
Hoogervorst, Tom, and Caroline Chia, eds. Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas. Brill, 2021. |
https://brill.com/display/title/56690?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOopIN--Iu9uGoVqfYKjfQPTs-VyvBkvVSlcUWFULWmN7CTzmaSe4 |
| 109 |
Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays |
Tsu, Jing; Wang, David Der-wei |
Brill |
2010.0 |
This volume redefines modern Chinese literature through a global and Sinophone lens. Featuring ten essays by scholars from Asia, North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, it tackles issues of diaspora, translation, language politics, nationalism, and literary transnationalism. Through case studies spanning music, minority voices, sinography, and the politics of literary recognition, the volume expands Chinese literary studies beyond national borders, opening space for comparative, multilingual, and transregional approaches. It is a foundational? resource for understanding the shifting geographies and identities in global Chinese literary production. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature\n |
globalization; diaspora; localization; nationalism |
General |
|
Tsu, Jing, and David Der-wei Wang, eds. Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays. Brill, 2010. |
https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/15415?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOopsdT_U33ML4pCI3q7pbtj-30f2t9FiLfxRuyu3tWyUPpVHGTIj |
| 110 |
New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections |
Pecic, Zoran |
Palgrave Macmillan |
2016.0 |
This book examines key works of queer Sinophone cinema from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, exploring how queerness and Sinophone identity intersect across local, global, and diasporic contexts. It challenges normative understandings of sexuality within Sinophone cultures while also critiquing Eurocentric frameworks of film analysis. By analyzing how queer desire is portrayed beyond East/West binaries, the study offers a new perspective on cinematic representation. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
LGBTQ; sexuality; identity |
East Asia |
China; Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Pecic, Zoran. New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. |
Publisher's page: New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections |
| 111 |
A World History of Chinese Literature |
Zhang, Yingjin |
Routledge |
2024.0 |
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive introduction to Chinese literature, tracing its development across linguistic, cultural, regional, and transnational dimensions. It examines the global circulation of Chinese literary works and addresses key themes such as authorship, genre, gender, and region, alongside emerging areas like inter-art performance and transmediation. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the volume engages with ongoing debates in global Chinese literature, Sinophone and Sinoscript studies, and the literary production of ethnic Chinese writing in non-Sinitic and Anglophone languages. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
globalization |
General |
|
Zhang, Yingjin, ed. A World History of Chinese Literature. Routledge, 2023. |
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003167198 |
| 112 |
The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Culture, Style, Voice and Motion |
Lupke, Christopher |
Cambria Press |
2016.0 |
This book provides a comprehensive study of the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, offering detailed analysis of his entire body of work, including The Assassin. Drawing on rare behind-the-scenes material and translated interviews, it examines how Hou’s cinema addresses themes such as ethnicity, gender, political repression, and urban-rural tensions. Situating his work within the broader contexts of postwar Taiwan and Sinophone culture, the book also contributes to discussions on innovation in global cinema and contemporary film aesthetics. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
Hou, Hsiao-hsien; gender; identity; multiculturalism |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Lupke, Christopher. The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Culture, Style, Voice and Motion. Cambria Press, 2016. Cambria Sinophone World Series. |
Publisher's page: https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=652 |
| 113 |
The Concept of the Sinophone |
Shih, Shu-mei |
Modern Language Association of America |
2011.0 |
Shu-mei Shih’s landmark article outlines the conceptual foundation of Sinophone studies by situating China itself as an empire subject to critique, rather than solely a victim of Western imperialism. She argues that the dominant narrative in postcolonial theory has disproportionately emphasized Western colonialism while overlooking China's own imperial history—especially in regions such as Inner Asia. Shih proposes the "Sinophone" as a critical framework for analyzing Chinese-language communities and cultures formed in the margins of China or outside its territorial boundaries. The concept highlights linguistic heterogeneity, settler colonialism, and diasporic identities, calling for a rethinking of nationalism, ethnicity, and critical frameworks beyond East-West binaries. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
theory; identity; Chineseness; colonialism; ethnicity; migration |
General |
|
Shih, Shu-mei. “The Concept of the Sinophone.” PMLA 126, no. 3 (May 2011): 709–718. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.3.709. |
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| 114 |
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific |
Chiang, Howard |
Columbia University Press |
2021.0 |
This book proposes a new framework for understanding transgender history by centering geopolitics and expanding beyond Western paradigms. Focusing on the Sinophone Pacific, it introduces the concept of transtopia—an alternative to transphobia that foregrounds the historical and cultural variability of transness. Through diverse sources including archives, media, and films, the study critiques both Western-centric transgender theory and China-centric models of East Asian gender and sexuality. It advances an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Sinophone studies, queer theory, and the medical humanities. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
LGBTQ; transgender people; transsexuality |
General |
|
Chiang, Howard. Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific. Columbia University Press, 2021. |
Publisher's page: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/transtopia-in-the-sinophone-pacific/9780231549172/ |
| 115 |
華語語系十講 = Sinophone |
Li, Yulin |
聯經 |
2020.0 |
It brings together ten presentations from the Second International Workshop on Sinophone Studies, offering an interdisciplinary introduction to foundational and emerging debates in the field. The volume encompasses theoretical discussions, literary criticism, linguistic and cultural politics, queer theory, documentary and film studies, minority and Indigenous literatures, and other key topics. Contributors examine how Sinophone discourse challenges nation-state frameworks, engages multilingual and multicultural contexts, and opens new avenues for cross-disciplinary inquiry. It highlights the field’s potential to reshape approaches to language, ethnicity, politics, region, and cultural expression. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
multilingualism; diaspora; cultural politics |
General |
|
李育霖主編。《華語語系十講》。臺北：聯經出版公司，2020。 |
https://www.linkingbooks.com.tw/books/184584 |
| 116 |
Orienti migranti: tra letteratura e traduzione |
Haroutyunian, Sona; Miccoli, Dario |
Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari |
2020.0 |
This multilingual volume explores literary and translational practices emerging from migratory experiences between East and West, with case studies spanning Armenian, Iranian, Turkish, and Sinophone contexts. Contributors examine how migration reshapes identities, languages, and literary forms, addressing themes such as family memory, urban cosmopolitanism, and ethnic hybridity. Through figures like William Saroyan and Qiu Xiaolong, the volume highlights translingual narratives that complicate fixed notions of origin, language, and cultural belonging. It contributes to broader discussions of migrant literature as a site of local-global convergence. |
Edited Volumes |
English; Italian |
literature |
migrants; ethnic identity; translation; translingualism |
general |
|
Haroutyunian, Sona, and Dario Miccoli, eds. Orienti migranti: tra letteratura e traduzione. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. |
http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-499-8 |
| 117 |
Littérature chinoise et globalisation: Enjeux linguistiques, traductologiques et génériques |
Pesaro, Nicoletta; Zhang, Yinde |
Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari |
2017.0 |
This French-language volume explores how Chinese literature participates in and responds to global cultural flows. With case studies ranging from poetic translation (Guo Moruo, Gao Xingjian) to political counter-fiction, internet fantasy, and the transnational reception of Western writers like Pirandello and Goldoni, the volume critically examines how translation, genre, and globalization reshape the Chinese literary field. The contributors highlight the role of editorial policy, linguistic hybridity, and Sinophone alternatives in positioning Chinese literature within evolving conceptions of world literature and cultural soft power. |
Edited Volumes |
French |
literature |
translation |
Cross-region |
China; France; Italy |
Pesaro, Nicoletta, and Yinde Zhang, eds. Littérature chinoise et globalisation: Enjeux linguistiques, traductologiques et génériques. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2017. |
ebook: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/books/978-88-6969-209-3/978-88-6969-209-3_ubMe8bf.pdf |
| 119 |
Taiwanese Literature as World Literature |
Lin, Pei-yin ; Li, Wen-chi |
Bloomsbury Publishing Inc |
2022.0 |
This volume reframes Taiwanese literature through the lens of world literature, foregrounding its multilingualism, colonial layering, and transcultural imagination. It highlights how Taiwanese writers, shaped by Japanese and Chinese influences, have dialogued with global literary movements—modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism—while addressing local concerns. Contributors examine the politics of translation, the limits of national literary identity, and the global circulation of Taiwanese literature. Emphasizing transnational engagement, the book brings together scholars and translators to explore how Taiwanese literature participates in conversations on climate change, gender, and truth in the global age. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
historiography; transculturation; colonialism; postcolonialism; identity politics |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Lin, Pei-yin, and Wen-chi Li, eds. Taiwanese Literature as World Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2022. |
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/taiwanese-literature-as-world-literature-9781501381348/ |
| 120 |
Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature |
Chan, Cheow Thia |
Columbia University Press |
2022.0 |
This book explores the evolution of Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature as a distinctive body of work situated at the margins of national and world literary systems. Challenging literary hierarchies that privilege mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, it highlights how Mahua writers such as Lin Cantian, Han Suyin, Wang Anyi, and Li Yongping creatively engage their peripheral status to produce innovative literary forms. Through analysis of key authors and texts from the 1930s to the 2000s, the study traces inter-Asian crossings and multilingual narratives that position Malaysia as a vital site for rethinking the global configuration of modern Chinese literature. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
cultural marginality; Lin Cantian; Han Suyin; Wang Anyi; Li Yongping |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Chan, Cheow Thia. Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature. Columbia University Press, 2022. |
Publisher's page: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/malaysian-crossings/9780231203395/ |
| 121 |
Perverse Taiwan |
Chiang, Howard ; Wang, Yin |
Routledge |
2017.0 |
Perverse Taiwan offers an interdisciplinary examination of queer cultures and non-normative sexualities in Taiwan from the postwar period to the early 21st century. It contextualizes the emergence of tongzhi (LGBTQ+) expression, activism, and cultural production within local and transnational frameworks, challenging heteronormative narratives of Taiwanese history. Covering literature, film, cross-dressing, criminality, and identity politics, the volume sheds light on Taiwan’s role as a pioneering site of queer Sinophone discourse, particularly after the lifting of martial law in 1987. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
LGBTQ; postcolonialism; performance studies ; sexuality |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Chiang, Howard, and Yin Wang, eds. Perverse Taiwan. Routledge, 2017. |
https://www.routledge.com/Perverse-Taiwan/Chiang-Wang/p/book/9781138349995?srsltid=AfmBOopdmzJGxixEtQZ7omVtjt1LgNaN4op4-RuMkXuEztJDEySIeN2p |
| 122 |
Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media |
Fan, Victor |
Edinburgh University Press |
2019.0 |
This book examines the complexities of Hong Kong cinema's identity and its transnational dimensions. It explores how filmmakers, critics, and audiences grapple with defining what constitutes Hong Kong cinema, especially within its historical, cultural, and political transformations. Themes include the interplay between local and global influences, the impact of colonial and postcolonial narratives, and the role of media in shaping cultural identity.\nIt is relevant to researchers and students in film studies, Asian studies, and cultural studies, offering valuable insights into Hong Kong's cinematic landscape. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
indigeneity ; decolonization; Human Geography |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Fan, Victor. Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. |
Edinburgh Scholarship online: https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37600 |
| 123 |
Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan |
Visser, Robin |
Columbia University Press |
2023.0 |
Visser’s Questioning Borders offers a decolonial ecocritical reading of contemporary literature by both Han and Indigenous authors across China and Taiwan. Drawing on field research and comparative textual analysis, the book interrogates dominant cosmologies that naturalize extractive development and relocative policies. It contrasts “Beijing Westerns” with hybrid and Indigenous worldviews, illustrating how ecoliterature reframes relations between humans, animals, and the cosmos. Visser centers Indigenous epistemologies and disrupts traditional boundaries in literary geography, contributing new paradigms to Sinophone, comparative, and environmental literary studies. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
indigeneity; decolonization |
East Asia |
China; Taiwan |
Visser, Robin. Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan. Columbia University Press, 2023. |
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/questioning-borders/9780231199810/ |
| 124 |
Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond |
Shih, Shu-mei; Tsai, Lin-chin |
Palgrave Macmillan |
2021.0 |
This volume explores indigenous knowledge systems in Taiwan within a comparative, trans-indigenous, and decolonial framework. The essays trace the institutional development of Taiwan's indigenous education, ethical issues in indigenous research, and intersections with settler colonial and indigenous studies globally. A standout contribution by Paiwan author Dadelavan Ibau reflects on cross-cultural solidarity through a journey to Tibet. The volume offers rich insights for scholars in Taiwan studies, anthropology, and indigenous epistemologies, advocating relational and ethical approaches to studying indigeneity in settler-colonial contexts. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
anthropology |
indigeneity; indigenous knowledge; settler colonial studies; decolonization |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Shih, Shu-mei, and Lin-chin Tsai, eds. Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond. Springer Nature, 2021. |
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-4178-0 |
| 125 |
Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture |
Larson, Wendy |
Cambria Press |
2017.0 |
\n"In this first critical study of films by Zhang Yimou in English, Wendy Larson plumbs the larger field of debate to suggest thought-provoking ways of thinking about the films and their relationship to Chinese culture. Arguing that the films do not appease Westerners but rather incorporate within themselves an understanding of how culture is changing under globalization, the book interprets the films’ emphasis on performance under coercion, the duplicity of display, and action under constraint" |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
Zhang, Yimou; globalization |
East Asia |
China |
Larson, Wendy. Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture. Cambria Press, 2017. Cambria Sinophone World Series. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=685 |
| 126 |
Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Textual Refractions in the Transpacific |
Iwasaki, Clara |
Cambria Press |
2020.0 |
This book reconsiders four canonical modern Chinese authors, Xiao Hong, Yu Dafu, Lao She, and Zhang Ailing, by tracing how their works circulate across languages, nations, and historical contexts in the transpacific world. Clara Iwasaki explores how these texts are refracted through translation and cultural reinterpretation, gaining new meanings in multilingual and multidirectional literary networks. By examining how texts shift in form and reception across time and place, the book challenges static understandings of the Chinese literary canon and emphasizes the global complexity of modern Chinese literature. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
translation; multilingualism; Chinese authors |
General |
|
Iwasaki, Clara. Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Textual Refractions in the Transpacific. Cambria Press, 2020. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=780 |
| 127 |
Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora: Literary Transnationalism and Translingual Migrations |
Lee, Karen An-hwei |
Cambria Press |
2013.0 |
Drawing on the works of authors such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Sui Sin Far, Chuang Hua, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Virginia Woolf, Karen An-hwei Lee examines how language and mysticism contribute to transnational and postcolonial literary practices. Through the dual lenses of translation studies and Eurasian translingualism, the book broadens the scope of Anglophone Asian literary scholarship beyond U.S.-centered frameworks. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
transnationalism; translation; diaspora; hybridity |
General |
|
Lee, Karen An-hwei. Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora: Literary Transnationalism and Translingual Migrations. Cambria Press, 2013. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=570 |
| 128 |
Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-First Century |
Pickowicz, Paul ; Zhang, Yingjin |
Cambria Press |
2020.0 |
This interdisciplinary volume updates Taiwan cinema studies by examining post-2000 developments through cultural, historical, and sociopolitical lenses. Contributors analyze how contemporary films address evolving Taiwanese identity, ethnic diversity, gender, labor, environmental issues, and Taiwan’s relationship with China and Japan. Moving beyond the New Wave auteur tradition, the book highlights commercial and socially engaged cinema that reflects Taiwan’s pluralism and democratic vibrancy. It provides a multifaceted view of Taiwanese filmmakers’ responses to local and global pressures and contributes to ongoing dialogues in Sinophone, film, and area studies. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
cinema |
identity politics |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Pickowicz, Paul, and Yingjin Zhang, eds. Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-First Century. Cambria Press, 2020. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=778 |
| 129 |
Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan |
Wu, Chia-rong |
Cambria Press |
2020.0 |
Chia-rong Wu explores how Taiwanese literature reflects the island’s complex cultural history and evolving identity across centuries of political change. Positioned within Sinophone studies, the work highlights Taiwan's entanglements with cultural China, indigenous traditions, and diasporic narratives, advancing a nuanced view of Taiwan’s literary ethnoscape and its cross-cultural negotiations. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
identity; ethnoscape; cultural pluralism; memory; indigenous representation |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Wu, Chia-rong. Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan. Cambria Press, 2020. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=776 |
| 130 |
Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History |
Wang, David Der-wei; Rojas, Carlos |
Duke University Press |
2007.0 |
This edited volume is the English-language collection to span the full breadth of modern Taiwanese literature, from the early 20th century to the present. Featuring essays by leading scholars from Taiwan and the United States, the book explores a range of literary genres and movement, including poetry, travel writing, realism, modernism, and postmodernism. Through in-depth studies of figures such as Yang Chichang, Li Yongping, and Liu Daren, Writing Taiwan highlights the multilingual, diasporic, and politically engaged dimensions of Taiwan’s literary landscape. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
historiography; multilingualism; diaspora; political exile |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Wang, David Der-wei, and Carlos Rojas, eds. Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History. Duke University Press, 2007. |
https://www.dukeupress.edu/writing-taiwan. |
| 131 |
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 : History, Culture, Memory |
Liao, Binghui; Wang, David Der-wei |
Columbia University Press |
2006.0 |
Bringing together seventeen essays by scholars from the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan, the collection present a nuanced view of how colonial policies and cultural interactions shaped Taiwanese society from 1895 to 1945. It addresses themes including national identity, language politics, and colonial modernity. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
colonialism; identity; language politics |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Liao, Binghui, and David Der-wei Wang, eds. Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945: History, Culture, Memory. Columbia University Press, 2006. |
http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231510813 |
| 133 |
东南亚华文新文学史 |
Zhuang, Zhongqing |
人民文学出版社 |
2007.0 |
A comprehensive study that traces the development of modern Chinese-language writing across Southeast Asian regions, including Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The book examines literary movements, cultural politics, linguistic practices, and the shifting identities of Chinese communities in diverse colonial and postcolonial context. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
diaspora; multilingualism; colonial studies; postcolonial studies |
Southeast Asia |
|
庄钟庆主编。《东南亚华文新文学史》。人民出版社，2007。 |
https://nanyang.xmu.edu.cn/info/1112/6904.htm |
| 134 |
趋异与共生：东南亚华文文学新镜像 |
Wang, Lieyao |
中国社会科学出版社 |
2011.0 |
This book analyzes Sinophone literature in Southeast Asia through three core themes: the redefinition of "homeland" from ancestral origins to localized belonging; the transformation of paternal imagery from traditional authority to fragility and weakness; and the changing dynamics of interethnic narratives within the region's literary production. Through these thematic lenses, the study illuminates how Sinophone writers navigate questions of self-identity and cultural consciousness. The work provides critical insight into the development of Southeast Asian Sinophone literary expression and its reflection of broader sociocultural transformations. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
identity; cultural consciousness |
Southeast Asia |
|
Wang, Lieyao 王列耀. Qu yi yu gong sheng: Dong nan Ya hua wen wen xue xin jing xiang 趋异与共生: 东南亚华文文学新镜像. Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she 中国社会科学出版社, 2011. |
https://www.sklib.cn/booklib/bookPreview?SiteID=122&ID=4613740&fromSubID=532 |
| 135 |
新移民文学：融合与疏离 |
Feng, Yun |
中国社会科学出版社 |
2009.0 |
This book analyzes Chinese new immigrant writing through the dual lens of integration and alienation, emphasizing hybridity and binary structures within diaspora literature. The study examines how female gender consciousness challenges male psychological dominance while exploring writers' non-localized linguistic practices that signal emotional detachment. Situating this literature within global diaspora movements since the mid-twentieth century, the study traces the subtle spiritual shifts experienced by Chinese immigrants in the era of globalization. It highlights the cultural and aesthetic significance of this body of writing, extending its relevance beyond the confines of ethnic Chinese literature. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
migrants; integration; alienation; diaspora |
General |
|
Feng, Yun 丰云. Xin yi min wen xue: rong he yu shu li 新移民文学: 融合与疏离. Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she 中国社会科学出版社, 2009. |
https://book.douban.com/subject/4165429/ |
| 136 |
寻找身份：全球视野中的新移民文学研究 |
Wu, Yiqi ; Chen, Hanping |
中国社会科学出版社 |
2012.0 |
This book examines new immigrant literature from a global perspective, analyzing how transnational migrants employ literary forms to document hardships, emotional struggles, and cultural negotiations shaping their migration and resettlement experiences. The study explores confusion and tension arising from cultural differences alongside the multiple perspectives and creative freedom available to writers in multicultural contexts. By investigating issues of cultural identity and imagination in new environments, the study reveals the unique conditions of mainland Chinese migrants in the age of globalization. The book positions new immigrant literature as a Third World "national allegory," highlighting its historical, cultural, and aesthetic significance. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
migrants; identity; globalization; national allegory |
General |
|
Wu, Yiqi 吴弈錡, and Hanping Chen 陈涵平. Xun zhao shen fen: quan qiu shi ye zhong de xin yi min wen xue yan jiu 寻找身份: 全球视野中的新移民文学研究. Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she 中国社会科学出版社, 2012. |
https://www.sklib.cn/booklib/bookPreview?SiteID=122&ID=1120366&fromSubID=764 |
| 137 |
Identity and Cultural Construction = 身份认同与文化建构: 华人文学跨文化特质 |
Lu, Hong |
中国社会科学出版社 |
2021.0 |
This book examines overseas Chinese literature through the lens of identity, analyzing cross-cultural characteristics across individual, ethnic, gender, linguistic, and artistic dimensions. It highlights representative traits of overseas Chinese writers, the formation and influence of literary groups and schools, and the evolution of thematic and stylistic practices. Through an analysis of migrant writers and the use of both traditional close reading and cultural studies methodologies, the study investigates the significance of cultural construction within diverse global contexts. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
identity; migrants; cross-cultural |
General |
|
Lu, Hong 吕红. Identity and Cultural Construction 身份认同与文化建构: 华人文学跨文化特质. Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she 中国社会科学出版社, 2021. |
https://www.sklib.cn/booklib/bookPreview?SiteID=122&ID=9190139&fromSubID=752 |
| 138 |
Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture |
Kong, Belinda |
Temple University Press |
2012.0 |
Belinda Kong explores how key writers, such as Gao Xingjian and Ha Jin, engage with the memory and politics of Tiananmen in their work. Rather than viewing the movement solely as a failed protest, Kong reframes it as a catalyst for a transnational literary discourse that interrogates state violence, exile, and the politics of cultural production in global contexts. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
diaspora; political memory; transnational writing; Gao Xingjian; Ha Jin |
General |
|
Kong, Belinda. Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture. Temple University Press, 2012. (Asian American History & Culture) |
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| 139 |
移动中的雕刻 : 当代海外华文文学微观察 = Engraving in Motion : A Microobservation of Contemporary Overseas Chinese Literature |
Tian, Ni |
中国社会科学出版社 |
2023.0 |
This book traces diverse narrative forms and thematic expressions emerging in overseas Chinese literature since the 1980s. It analyzes key motifs including homeland attachments, nation-self narratives, mother-daughter dynamics, intergenerational ethics, the "engraving" of space through mobility, and existential explorations in futuristic or speculative fiction. Through these thematic investigations, the study uncovers the literary spirit, cultural rhythms, and multifaceted creative practices shaped within shifting Sino-Western contexts. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
historiography |
General |
|
Tian, Ni 田泥. Engraving in Motion : A Microobservation of Contemporary Overseas Chinese Literature 移动中的雕刻: 当代海外华文文学微观察. Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she 中国社会科学出版社, 2023. |
https://www.sklib.cn/booklib/bookPreview?SiteID=122&ID=10722903&fromSubID=524 |
| 140 |
異質文化語境下的女性書寫：海外華人女性寫作比較研究 |
Xiao, Wei |
巴蜀書社 |
2005.0 |
This book examines overseas Chinese women's writing, primarily focusing on its development in the United States. It traces the historical evolution of this literature, exploring characteristics such as heterogeneity, homeland consciousness, local awareness, and cultural hybridity. Through close textual analyses of representative writers—including Hualing Nieh Engle, Geling Yan, Amy Tan, and Maxine Hong Kingston—the study investigates themes of dual identity, marginality, ethnic representation, self-image, and gender consciousness. It highlights distinctive narrative strategies and thematic concerns, positioning overseas Chinese women's writing as a significant contribution to comparative literature. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
cultural heterogeneity; women; Hualing Nieh Engle 聶華苓; Geling Yan 严歌苓; Amy Tan 谭恩美; Maxine Hong Kingston 湯亭亭 |
North America |
United States |
Xiao, Wei 肖薇. Yi zhi wen hua yu jing xia de nü xing shu xie : hai wai Hua ren nü xing xie zuo bi jiao yan jiu 異質文化語境下的女性書寫 : 海外華人女性寫作比較研究. Ba Shu shu she 巴蜀書社, 2005. |
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| 141 |
Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature |
Lin, Pei-yin |
Brill Nijhoff |
2017.0 |
Focusing on the period between the 1920s and 1945, this book investigates how literary texts in colonial Taiwan engaged with shifting notions of identity and modernity under Japanese rule. Rather than framing Taiwanese literature strictly through nationalist or Japan-centric lenses, Pei-yin Lin offers a layered reading that challenges binary categories of colonizer and colonized. Through careful textual and contextual analysis, the study presents colonial Taiwanese literature as a dynamic space of cultural negotiation, showcasing a wide range of stylistic responses to colonial modernity. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
colonization |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Lin, Pei-yin. Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature. Brill Nijhoff, 2017. |
https://brill.com/display/title/33434?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOorjx7GAIkqPDhUZwrWRDmhjA8_57QZeb2RVpxQPiSNRr3ufI8ww |
| 142 |
Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context: A Translation Studies Perspective |
Kung, Szu-Wen |
Routledge |
2021.0 |
This book investigates how contemporary Taiwanese literature is translated and mediated in cross-cultural contexts. Drawing on sociological, cultural, and linguistic theories, Szu-Wen Kung explores how translation is shaped by asymmetrical power relations, institutional ideologies, and the agency of translators. Emphasizing translation as a socially embedded and performative act, the study highlights the role of translation in rewriting both literary texts and cultural narratives for global readerships. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
translation; cultural mediation |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Kung, Szu-Wen. Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context: A Translation Studies Perspective. Routledge, 2021. |
https://www.routledge.com/Translation-of-Contemporary-Taiwan-Literature-in-a-Cross-Cultural-Context-A-Translation-Studies-Perspective/Kung/p/book/9781138586512. |
| 143 |
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship Migration and Middle Classes |
Wei, John C. |
Hong Kong University Press |
2020.0 |
This book examines how queer life in contemporary China is shaped by intersecting forces of migration, social class, and family pressure. John Wei explores how development-driven mobilities and neoliberal aspirations affect queer kinship, cultural networks, and class structures. Focusing on the lived experiences of young gay men, the study shows how mobility becomes both a strategy and a constraint in navigating queer identity, reconfiguring traditional frameworks of intimacy, family, and belonging across Sinophone Asia. |
Monographs |
English |
sociology |
LGBTQ |
East Asia |
China |
Wei, John C. Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes. Hong Kong University Press, 2020. |
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Q/bo60692754.html |
| 144 |
Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang |
De Villiers, Nicholas |
University of Minnesota Press |
2022.0 |
This book offers a systematic analysis of the queerness in Tsai Ming-liang's films, exploring themes of sexual disorientation and the experiences of displaced characters. It contributes to queer film theory and provides insights into the aesthetics of displacement in cinema. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
LGBTQ; Tsai, Ming-Liang |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
De Villiers, Nicholas. Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang. University of Minnesota Press, 2022. |
Publisher's page: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517913182/cruisy-sleepy-melancholy/ |
| 145 |
Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics: Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts in a Global Age |
Li, Shuangyi |
Springer |
2022.0 |
Examining the literary and artistic output of four Chinese-born creators, François Cheng, Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, and Shan Sa, across media and languages, Shuangyi Li highlights the translingual and transmedial aesthetics that emerge at the intersection of Chinese heritage and French expression. The study proposes a model for understanding creative production that bridges Francophone and Sinophone spheres, contributing to broader discussions in world literature, intermediality, and diaspora studies. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
migrants; aesthetics; translation; visual arts |
Europe |
France |
Li, Shuangyi. Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics: Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts in a Global Age. Springer, 2022. |
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-5562-3 |
| 146 |
Sinoglossia |
Li, Yulin; Chiang, Howard; Bachner, Andrea |
Hong Kong University Press |
2023.0 |
Expanding the field of Sinophone studies, the volume introducing the concept of sinoglossia, which foregrounds embodiment, mediality, and translation in the analysis of Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Rejecting language-based essentialism, the book proposes a heteroglossic framework for interpreting the diverse discourses of Chineseness. Through case studies ranging from queer bodies and cinematic landscapes to pop culture and translation, Sinoglossia rethinks cultural production as multilingual, multi-sited, and polyphonic, offering a dynamic alternative to monolingual or nationalist paradigms. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
linguistics |
sociolinguistics; translation; cultural identity |
general |
|
Li, Yulin, Howard Chiang, and Andrea Bachner, eds. Sinoglossia. Hong Kong University Press, 2023. |
https://hkupress.hku.hk/Sinoglossia |
| 147 |
Comparatizing Taiwan |
Shih, Shu-mei; Liao, Binghui |
Routledge/Taylor and Francis |
2015.0 |
Through comparative frameworks, the contributors situate Taiwan in relation to other nations and regions—including China, Korea, Ireland, Hong Kong, the United States, and the Caribbean—to explore themes of colonization, identity, and global economic exchange. By emphasizing Taiwan’s material and symbolic relationalities, the book expands the scope of Taiwan studies and offers methodological reflections on how to compare small nations within transnational and postcolonial contexts. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
transnationalism; postcolonial studies; identity; cultural geography |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Shih, Shu-mei, and Binghui Liao, eds. Comparatizing Taiwan. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2015. |
https://www.routledge.com/Comparatizing-Taiwan/Shih-Liao/p/book/9781138094925 |
| 148 |
Transnational Chinese Cinema: Corporeality Desire and the Ethics of Failure |
Bergen-Aurand, Brian ; Mazzilli, Mary ; Wai-Siam, Hee |
Bridge21 Publications |
2014.0 |
This edited volume investigates Chinese cinema in transnational contexts, focusing on corporeality, desire, and the ethics of failure. Spanning works from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the diaspora, the collection probes how cinematic representations of the body and identity unsettle national and cultural boundaries. The volume engages deeply with how films articulate tensions between mind and body. It also contains rich academic resources on transnational film studies. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
cinema |
transnationalism; human beings in motion pictures |
general |
|
Bergen-Aurand, Brian, Mary Mazzilli, and Hee Wai-Siam, eds. Transnational Chinese Cinema: Corporeality, Desire and the Ethics of Failure. Bridge21 Publications, 2014. |
Amazon containing reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Chinese-Cinema-Corporeality-Publications/dp/1626430101 |
| 149 |
Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond |
Wu, Chia-rong |
Cambria Press |
2016.0 |
Chia-rong Wu's Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond (Cambria Press, 2016) delves into the role of supernatural narratives in shaping Sinophone literature within Taiwan and its diasporic extensions, particularly in Malaysia. The study emphasizes the zhiguai tradition—accounts of the strange—as a lens to explore themes of identity, memory, and resistance. By analyzing how these narratives intersect with local histories, gender discourses, and postcolonial conditions, Wu illustrates how the supernatural serves as a medium for articulating complex cultural experiences beyond a China-centric framework. This work contributes to Sinophone studies by highlighting the significance of localized storytelling in understanding the multifaceted nature of Chineseness in a global context. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
supernatural; diaspora; identity; trauma; transnationalism; ethnic minorities |
Cross-region |
China ; Malaysia; Taiwan |
Wu, Chia-rong. Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond. Cambria Press, 2016. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=655\nhttps://www.sinophonestudies.org/pubmed/2018/7/10/blog-headline-376gb-436zm-flfh5-p7hwp-zp96g-ayzs6-768fh |
| 150 |
Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics |
Lee, Mabel; Liu, Jianmei |
Cambria Press |
2018.0 |
It examines Gao Xingjian’s multifaceted creative output across literature, theatre, visual art, film, and music. Exploring Gao’s work as a Nobel Laureate and transcultural artist, the essays highlight his transdisciplinary approach to aesthetic expression. The collection is organized into four parts—philosophy, transmedia forms, cine-poetics, and selfhood—and traces how Gao’s oeuvre embodies a modern polymath’s vision, blending narrative, visual, and performative forms to explore interiority, exile, and human consciousness. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
aesthetics; Gao Xingjian; transmedia; exile |
Cross-region |
China ; France |
Lee, Mabel, and Jianmei Liu, eds. Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics. Cambria Press, 2018. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=706 |
| 151 |
Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry |
Wong, Jennifer |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
2023.0 |
Focusing on diasporic poetry across Anglophone communities, this book investigates how Chinese and East Asian poets express themes of identity, belonging, and cultural displacement. Jennifer Wong combines literary criticism with interviews to explore the poetic work and reflections of writers such as Bei Dao, Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Sarah Howe, and Mary Jean Chan. Through their engagement with form, language, and memory, Wong examines how these poets navigate and challenge established frameworks of race, homeland, and diaspora in a transnational context. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
poetry; diaspora; identity, |
general |
|
Wong, Jennifer. Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. |
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/identity-home-and-writing-elsewhere-in-contemporary-chinese-diaspora-poetry-9781350250338/ |
| 152 |
Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China |
Song, Lin |
Hong Kong University Press |
2022.0 |
This book explores queer life and public culture in China through the lens of kinship, challenging Western-centric models of queer identity. Lin Song examines how LGBTQ+ individuals in China navigate Confucian kinship norms and social expectations, offering new insights into how queerness is lived and represented in a rapidly globalizing yet culturally rooted society. |
Monographs |
English |
sociology |
LGBTQ; kinship; public culture |
East Asia |
China |
Song, Lin. Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China. Hong Kong University Press, 2022. |
https://hkupress.hku.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1226 |
| 153 |
Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States |
Li, Melody Yunzi |
Rutgers University Press |
2024.0 |
This book explores how diasporic Chinese narratives depict the search for home in the context of migration, cultural displacement, and geopolitical tension. Focusing on literature, television, and online media by Sinophone and Anglophone authors such as Yan Geling, Shi Yu, Chen Qian, Rong Rong, and Ha Jin, Li analyzes how these works construct metaphorical and narrative "maps" of belonging. By drawing on literary cartography and diaspora studies, the book reveals how cultural texts chart new modes of homemaking across transpacific spaces. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
literary geography; diaspora; homemaking |
Cross-region |
United States; China |
Li, Melody Yunzi. Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States. Rutgers University Press, 2024. |
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/transpacific-cartographies/9781978829336/ |
| 154 |
華語電影在後馬來西亞: 土腔風格, 華夷風與作者論 = Post-Malaysian Chinese-language film : accented style, sinophoneand auteur theory |
Xu, Weixian |
聯經 |
2018.0 |
This book is the first comprehensive study of contemporary Malaysian Chinese-language cinema, employing accented cinema theory to examine how Malaysian directors utilize accented style, Sinophone frameworks, and auteur theory to perform linguistic, local, national, cultural, class, and gender/sexual identities. Situating this cinema within the dual context of global cosmopolitanism and local Third World post-colonialism, the study draws on interviews with directors, European film-festival consultants, and programmers, alongside fieldwork across production, consumption, and dissemination. It provides an in-depth account of the emergence and significance of Chinese-language filmmaking in post-Malaysia, illuminating its unique cultural positioning and aesthetic contributions. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
cinema |
sociolinguistics; accented style; auteur theory |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Hee, Wai-Siam 許維賢. Post-Malaysian Chinese-Language Film: Accented Style, Sinophone and Auteur Theory 華語電影在後馬來西亞: 土腔風格, 華夷風與作者論. Linking Press 聯經出版社, 2018. |
https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010784577?srsltid=AfmBOooYKBhY17lse5O2ZY6TwwgsRCwpUMRp0U3ujnjUvazjzxNRn2IP |
| 155 |
Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction |
Møller-Olsen, Astrid |
Cambria Press |
2022.0 |
This book examines how sensory perception, memory, and narrative intersect within urban environments in Sinophone fiction. Focusing on literary representations of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei, Møller-Olsen explores the city not just as a physical space but as a layered construct of sociality, affect, and cultural meaning. Through contemporary Chinese-language fiction, the book traces how urban subjects experience and reshape their world, contributing to broader conversations in narratology, urban studies, and Sinophone literary criticism. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
cities; urban memory; narrative space |
East Asia |
China ; Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Møller-Olsen, Astrid. Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction. Cambria Press, 2022. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=812 |
| 156 |
離散, 本土與馬華文學論述 = Diaspora, localis, and Sinophone Malaysian literature |
Tee, Kim Tong 張錦忠 |
國立中山大學出版社 |
2019.0 |
This anthology examines Malaysian Chinese literary theory at a critical juncture, documenting the evolution of literary discourse following the millennium. The collection argues for the necessity of "new discourses" and paradigms in Ma Hua literary studies beyond 2008, representing a watershed moment of both rupture and continuity in the field. The volume serves as both a historical record and theoretical foundation for understanding the shifting landscape of Malaysian Chinese literary criticism and scholarship. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
theory; diaspora; localization |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Tee, Kim Tong 張錦忠. Diaspora, Localis, and Sinophone Malaysian Literature 離散, 本土與馬華文學論述. Center for the Humanities at National Sun Yat-sen University 國立中山大學人文研究中心, 2019. |
https://syscfh-la.nsysu.edu.tw/p/405-1017-226305,c20285.php?Lang=en |
| 157 |
(Trans)national Tsina/oys: Hybrid Performances of Chinese and Filipina/o Identities |
Hao, Richie Neil |
Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
2023.0 |
This book explores how Chinese Filipinos—Tsina/oys—navigate their hybrid identities through cultural and linguistic practices in everyday life. Employing methods such as critical ethnographic interviews, autoethnography, and cyberethnography, Richie Neil Hao examines the intersectional performances of ethnicity, nationality, and class in both physical and digital spaces. The work draws from critical intercultural and performance studies to analyze the complexities of Tsina/oy identity and its implications for the future within and beyond the Philippines. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
identity |
Southeast Asia |
Philippines |
Hao, Richie Neil. (Trans)national Tsina/oys: Hybrid Performances of Chinese and Filipina/o Identities. Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2023. |
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1296843 |
| 158 |
Chinese Diasporas: A Social History of Global Migration |
Miles, Steven B. |
Cambridge University Press |
2020.0 |
This book offers a concise social history of Chinese migration from the Ming dynasty to the present. Through case studies of individuals and communities, Steven B. Miles explores how different migration routes shaped distinct diasporic experiences both within China and globally. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
migrants; diaspora ; Chinese communities |
general |
|
Miles, Steven B. Chinese Diasporas: A Social History of Global Migration. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
\nhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781316841211 |
| 159 |
Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification |
Chun, Allen John Uck Lun |
SUNY Press |
2017.0 |
This book critically examines the concept of Chinese cultural identity across different societies. Allen Chun argues that identity is shaped not just by culture but by the forces of modernity, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Focusing on case studies from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Singapore, and overseas communities, the book challenges essentialist views of Chineseness and highlights how institutional and political contexts influence cultural identification. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
identity; ethnology; Chineseness |
Cross-region |
China; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Singapore |
Chun, Allen. Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification. State University of New York Press, 2017. |
https://sunypress.edu/Books/F/Forget-Chineseness |
| 160 |
Identity, Hybridity and Cultural Home: Chinese Migrants and Diaspora in Multicultural Societies |
Liu, Shuang |
Rowman & Littlefield International |
2015.0 |
This book critically examines the evolving concept of cultural identity among Chinese migrants living in multicultural societies. Drawing on frameworks of diaspora, hybridity, and acculturation, it explores how individuals and families navigate cultural adaptation, identity negotiation, and the search for belonging. Through discussions on intercultural marriage, bilingualism, and the experiences of interracial children, Liu interrogates the relevance of a fixed “cultural home” in today’s globalized world. The study ultimately questions whether a stable cultural identity is necessary—or even possible—in multicultural environments. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
migrants; identity; multiculuturalism |
general |
|
Liu, Shuang. Identity, Hybridity and Cultural Home: Chinese Migrants and Diaspora in Multicultural Societies. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015. |
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783481262/Identity-Hybridity-and-Cultural-Home-Chinese-Migrants-and-Diaspora-in-Multicultural-Societies |
| 161 |
Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong |
Taylor, Jeremy E.; Xu, Lanjun |
Routledge |
2022.0 |
Through detailed case studies, from bookstores and classrooms to cinemas and temples, this edited volume investigates how notions of “Chineseness” were contested and instrumentalized during the Cold War across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Framed within the context of the “Chinese cultural Cold War,” the book traces how these ideological battles continue to shape understandings of diaspora, influence, and belonging in the region today. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
identity; Cold War; diaspora; cultural politics |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong ; Indonesia; Malaysia; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam |
Taylor, Jeremy E., and Lanjun Xu, eds. Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Routledge, 2022. |
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003211976 |
| 163 |
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911-1949 |
Hoogervorst, Tom |
Cornell University Press |
2021.0 |
This book investigates the role of ethnic Chinese print entrepreneurs in shaping a unique vernacular literary culture in colonial Indonesia from 1911 to 1949. Through novels, newspapers, poems, and plays written in Chinese-inflected Malay, Tom G. Hoogervorst reveals how these texts resisted both Dutch colonial authority and linguistic standardization. The work emphasizes the significance of popular print culture as a medium for everyday communication, cultural expression, and subtle political resistance among the Chinese-Indonesian community. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
publishing; literature and society; language and culture |
Southeast Asia |
Indonesia |
Hoogervorst, Tom. Language Ungoverned: Indonesia’s Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949. Cornell University Press, 2021. |
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501758232/language-ungoverned/ |
| 164 |
Post-colonial Chinese Literatures in Singapore and Malaysia |
Wong, Yoon-wah |
Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore ; Global Publishing |
2002.0 |
This book offers an English-language introduction to the development of Chinese literature in post-colonial Singapore and Malaysia. Through twelve essays, Wong Yoon-wah traces how writers in these two nations have responded to the legacies of colonialism and migration. The book explores how themes of displacement, identity, language, and cultural negotiation are expressed in Chinese-language literary works, shaped by the local historical and political contexts. It highlights how these literatures form a distinctive part of Southeast Asian cultural expression, emerging at the intersection of diasporic experience and national transformation. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
postcolonialism |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore; Malaysia |
Wong, Yoon-wah. Post-colonial Chinese Literatures in Singapore and Malaysia. Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore; Global Publishing, 2002. |
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| 165 |
The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity |
Khoo, Olivia |
Hong Kong University Press |
2007.0 |
It examines evolving representations of diasporic Chinese femininity within Asia Pacific modernities since the late 20th century. Through analyses of films, popular fiction, and consumer culture, Khoo critiques dominant China-centered definitions of femininity rooted in primitivist discourse. She proposes a rethinking of exoticism to better understand these shifting images and explores how gendered representations reflect changing relationships among China, the Chinese diaspora, Asia, and the West in the era of globalization. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
women ; femininity |
general |
|
Khoo, Olivia. The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity. Hong Kong University Press, 2007. |
https://hkupress.hku.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=753 |
| 166 |
Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film |
Ng, Maria; Holden, Philip |
Hong Kong University Press |
2006.0 |
This edited volume examines the cultural, literary, and cinematic dimensions of Chinese transnationalism, challenging conventional understandings of Chineseness and diaspora. Contributors analyze how social practices and cultural texts cross national borders, offering critical insights into the shifting meanings of identity and community in transnational Chinese contexts. By interrogating both popular and literary forms, the collection rethinks how Chineseness is imagined and represented across global spaces. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
transnationalism; identity; diaspora |
general |
|
Ng, Maria, and Philip Holden, eds. Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film. Hong Kong University Press; Eurospan, 2006. |
preview: https://hkupress.hku.hk/image/catalog/pdf-preview/9789622097971.pdf |
| 167 |
Searching for Identity through the Negotiation of Cultural Differences: A Study of Chinese Diasporic Literature |
Gao, Jingjing |
Verlag Dr. Kovač |
2012.0 |
Jingjing Gao’s study explores how Chinese diasporic writers navigate cultural boundaries to reconcile identity tensions between their heritage and adopted homes. Drawing on sociological and cultural theories, Gao combines theoretical frameworks with literary analysis to reveal how fiction becomes a medium for negotiating cultural conflict and reimagining identity. The work highlights the authors’ use of innovative narrative strategies to construct a holistic discourse of the Chinese diaspora, portraying truths that transcend biographical, historical, or anthropological accounts. Gao emphasizes the development of a cross-cultural consciousness that allows diasporic writers to redefine belonging beyond national or cultural confines. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
identity; culture; sociology; diaspora |
general |
|
Gao, Jingjing. Searching for Identity through the Negotiation of Cultural Differences: A Study of Chinese Diasporic Literature. Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2012. |
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Negotiation-Differences-Diasporic-Literature/dp/3830063032 |
| 168 |
The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia: The Overseas Chinese in Indo-China, 1870-1945 |
Barrett, Tracy C. |
I.B. Tauris |
2012.0 |
Tracy Barrett’s The Chinese Diaspora in South East Asia explores the migration of Chinese communities to French Indochina during the Qing Dynasty’s decline. Faced with instability in China, many Chinese emigrated and established huiguan—community associations reflecting their native regions. Barrett examines how these communities interacted with French colonial authorities and how the congregation system was developed to monitor and manage Chinese settlers. Through detailed case studies—including suffrage, leadership, and a prominent family’s bankruptcy—Barrett reveals the legal, political, and economic dimensions of Chinese diasporic life, offering valuable insights into colonial governance and Chinese transnational networks in Southeast Asia. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
diaspora; colonial studies |
Southeast Asia |
|
Barrett, Tracy C. The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia: The Overseas Chinese in Indo-China, 1870-1945. I.B. Tauris, 2012. |
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/chinese-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-9780857721181/ |
| 169 |
Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora : Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah |
Lai, Amy Tak-Yee |
Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
2007.0 |
This study critically examines the work of five Chinese women writers living in the West, with a focus on four authors: Xinran [薛]欣然, Hong Ying 虹影, Anchee Min 闵安琪, and Adeline Yen Mah 馬嚴君玲. These women authors' autobiographical and semi-autobiographical writings engage themes of cultural identity, gender, and exile. Chu analyzes how each author uses narrative, metaphor, and intercultural frameworks to negotiate the complexities of diasporic identity. While acknowledging the popularity and controversy surrounding Jung Chang (张戎 )'s Wild Swans, the book shifts attention to other significant yet understudied voices, offering new perspectives on the genre of Chinese women's life writing across borders. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
women; identity ; women authors; cross-cultural studies |
Cross-region |
United States; England |
Lai, Amy Tak-Yee. Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora : Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. |
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/9781847182708 |
| 170 |
Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora |
Li, Melody Yunzi; Tally, Robert T. |
Palgrave Macmillan |
2022.0 |
This edited volume explores how affect and spatiality intersect in representations of the Chinese diaspora across literature, film, and visual media. The essays investigate how diasporic communities engage with notions of homeland, borders, and identity through narratives shaped by emotion and movement. Contributors analyze how affect theory and spatial literary studies inform our understanding of displacement, migration, hybridity, and transnational belonging. Emphasizing diverse perspectives and media, the volume offers a multidimensional approach to diasporic cultural production in the context of globalization. It contributes to the fields of diaspora studies, literary geography, and the sociology of migration. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
literary geography; diaspora; spatial representation; migration; cultural identity |
general |
|
Li, Melody Yunzi, and Robert T. Tally, eds. Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10157-1. |
| 171 |
Archipelagic Optics in Wu Ming-Yi's the Man with the Compound Eyes |
Chang, Yi-Ting |
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2022.0 |
This article introduces the concept of “archipelagic optics” through a close reading of Wu Ming-Yi’s novel The Man with the Compound Eyes, challenging dominant geopolitical frameworks in transpacific and Asian/American studies. By focusing on Taiwan and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Chang rethinks islandness not through US-centric anti-imperial critique, but through a decontinental, decolonial lens. The study critiques militarized surveillance and proposes a vision rooted in interdependence rather than sovereignty. “Archipelagic optics” becomes a mode of sensing that foregrounds ecological entanglement, non-sovereign agency, and alternative ways of seeing from the margins of empire. This framework offers new tools for understanding postcoloniality, environmental crisis, and the plural futures emerging from overlooked island geographies. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
decolonization |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Chang, Yi-Ting. “Archipelagic Optics in Wu Ming-Yi’s the Man with the Compound Eyes.” Positions: Asia Critique 30, no. 4 (2022): 839–864. |
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| 172 |
Chinese Queer Images on Screen: A Case Study of Cui Zi'en's Films |
Zhou, Yuxing |
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2014.0 |
This article examines the queer cinematic work of Cui Zi’en, a pioneering figure in Chinese independent filmmaking and LGBTQ activism. Against the backdrop of strict censorship and heteronormative control, Cui’s digital video films disrupt dominant narratives by centering queer identities and aesthetics. Zhou analyzes Cui’s experimental techniques—such as unstable camerawork, extreme long takes, and nonlinear storytelling—not only as artistic choices but as political resistance. The study highlights how Cui reworks elements of Western New Queer Cinema to articulate a uniquely Chinese queer experience, all while circulating his films through underground channels and international festivals. This work foregrounds the role of digital technology in creating alternative cinematic spaces in China’s restrictive cultural environment. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
LGBTQ |
East Asia |
China |
Zhou, Yuxing. “Chinese Queer Images on Screen: A Case Study of Cui Zi’en’s Films.” Asian Studies Review 38, no. 1 (2014): 124–140. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2013.865703. |
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10357823.2013.865703 |
| 173 |
Counter-Narrating Political Ethnocracy: Interrogating Malay-Chinese Ethnic Relations in Flower in the Pocket and Nasi Lemak 2.0 |
Wah, Kuan Chee |
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2020.0 |
This article explores how two Malaysian Sinophone films—Flower in the Pocket (2007) by Liew Seng Tat and Nasi Lemak 2.0 (2011) by Namewee—challenge the dominant narrative of political ethnocracy in Malaysia. The author argues that both films reflect the frustrations of a younger generation of Chinese Malaysians with Malaysia’s entrenched ethnic politics. Flower in the Pocket subtly critiques Malay privilege and interethnic alienation through family relationships, while Nasi Lemak 2.0 deploys parody and satire to dismantle nationalist ideology and racial stereotypes. Together, these films create space for imagining a more inclusive national identity and contribute to counter-hegemonic discourses on ethnicity and citizenship in multicultural Malaysia. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
identity, national; ethnic relations |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Wah, Kuan Chee. “Counter-Narrating Political Ethnocracy: Interrogating Malay-Chinese Ethnic Relations in Flower in the Pocket and Nasi Lemak 2.0.” Asian Cinema 31, no. 2 (2020): 253–268. https://doi.org/10.1386/ac_00027_1. |
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| 174 |
The Last of the Whampoa Breed: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora |
Qi, Bangyuan; Wang, David Der-wei |
Columbia University Press |
2003.0 |
This edited volume presents a collection of literary works by descendants of soldiers exiled to Taiwan following the Chinese Civil War in 1949. These narratives, written by some of Taiwan’s most prominent authors, explore the experiences of military exiles and their families as they navigate life in a new social and political context. The stories engage with themes of displacement, memory, identity, and generational adaptation. The volume also highlights the cultural and emotional legacy of the Whampoa Military Academy. As a contribution to translated Taiwanese literature, it provides insight into a significant but often underrepresented aspect of Chinese diaspora history. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
diaspora; exile; displacement; Whampoa Military Academy |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Qi, Bangyuan, and David Der-wei Wang, eds. The Last of the Whampoa Breed: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora. Columbia University Press, 2003. |
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-last-of-the-whampoa-breed/9780231130028 |
| 176 |
Queer Vernacularism: Minor Transnationalism across Hong Kong and Singapore |
Wong, Alvin K. |
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2020.0 |
This essay explores the queer literary modernism of Hong Kong and Singapore since the 1990s to address a gap in comparative studies of postcolonial queer culture. Focusing on two gay male urban novels—Bryan Yip’s Suddenly Single (2003) and Johann S. Lee’s Peculiar Chris (1992)—the author develops the concept of “queer vernacularism” to examine how local references to popular culture, urban space, and soundscapes exceed conventional queer transnationalism. The essay concludes with an analysis of Yonfan’s Bugis Street (1995), which visualizes a shared queer past across both cities and expands the terrain of minor transnational desire. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
LGBTQ |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong; Singapore |
Wong, Alvin K. “Queer Vernacularism: Minor Transnationalism across Hong Kong and Singapore.” Cultural Dynamics 32, nos. 1–2 (2020): 49–67. |
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| 177 |
Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards and Singapore Cinema: Prestige, Privilege and Disarticulation |
Ng, How Wee |
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2020.0 |
This article examines the role of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards (GHA) in shaping the identity, aspirations, and challenges of Singaporean filmmakers. Drawing from interviews with directors, producers, and festival organizers, the author analyzes how GHA functions as both a symbol of prestige and a site of tension over issues of Chineseness, inclusivity, and linguistic-cultural hierarchy. For a multilingual and multi-ethnic nation like Singapore, participating in GHA introduces contradictions between national identity and regional Chinese dominance. The article critiques the implicit exclusions embedded in the festival’s framework and reflects on how Singaporean cinema navigates this geopolitical and cultural disarticulation in pursuit of global recognition. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
identity; Chineseness; GHA; geopolitics, cultural |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Ng, How Wee. “Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards and Singapore Cinema: Prestige, Privilege and Disarticulation.” Asian Cinema 31, no. 1 (2020): 99–120. https://doi.org/10.1386/ac_00015_1. |
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| 178 |
The Lost Keychain? Contemporary Chinese-Language Writing in Indonesia |
Stenberg, Josh |
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2017.0 |
This article analyzes contemporary Chinese-language literature in Indonesia as a distinct and coherent body of work that resists subsumption into broader categories like Chinese or Sinophone literature. Stenberg argues that such writing should be studied on its own terms, as it reflects a unique negotiation of Chinese Indonesian identity in the post-Reformasi period. Rather than being marginal or derivative, this literary production exemplifies complex forms of multilingualism, cultural persistence, and localized meaning-making. The article critiques existing Sinophone frameworks for inadequately addressing the particularities of this literature and instead calls for an approach that foregrounds its social context and literary autonomy within Indonesia’s multiethnic society. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity |
Southeast Asia |
Indonesia |
Stenberg, Josh. “The Lost Keychain? Contemporary Chinese-Language Writing in Indonesia.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 32, no.3 (2017): 634–68. |
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| 179 |
Border Crossing in Greater China: Production, Community and Identity |
Wang, Jenn-hwan |
Routledge |
2015.0 |
This edited volume explores the complex and evolving socioeconomic relationships between China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in the context of increasing economic integration and cross-border flows. Divided into three thematic sections—Production, Community, and Identity—it covers topics ranging from cross-border industrial networks and expatriate dynamics to lifestyle migration and cultural identity. Contributors examine how migration, business, and cultural exchange reshape borders and affect identity formation across Greater China, making this a valuable resource for scholars of Taiwan studies, Chinese society, and regional integration. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
migrants; economic relations; identity |
East Asia |
China; Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Wang, Jenn-hwan ed. Border Crossing in Greater China: Production, Community and Identity. Routledge, 2015. Routledge Research on Taiwan, no. 13. |
Publisher's page: \nhttps://www.routledge.com/Border-Crossing-in-Greater-China-Production-Community-and-Identity/Wang/p/book/9781138089600?srsltid=AfmBOoqcYZAeF1xDv2guNG_cvASwtHX3sLxfzmyMrTk3D8TQmdo9C5pY |
| 180 |
Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change |
Hartley, Lauran R.; Schiaffini-Vedani, Patricia |
Duke University Press |
2008.0 |
This edited volume provides a systematic overview of modern Tibetan literature, focusing on works produced over the past thirty years. It includes contributions from fourteen scholars, some of whom are also active literary figures, and examines writings in Tibetan, Chinese, and English from authors based in Tibet and in the diaspora. The essays address the development of modern literary forms, their relationship to classical traditions, and the sociopolitical contexts influencing their production. The volume also considers a range of media—such as magazines, websites, and film—as part of contemporary Tibetan cultural expression. An index and a list of translated works are included. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
diaspora ; social change; identity |
East Asia |
Tibet |
Hartley, Lauran R., and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, eds. Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change. Duke University Press, 2008. |
https://www.dukeupress.edu/modern-tibetan-literature-and-social-change. |
| 181 |
Alter-Centering Chinese Cinema: The Diasporic Formation |
Wang, Yiman |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2012.0 |
Wang explores how diasporic Chinese cinema complicates notions of “home” and “Chineseness.” Wang argues that Chinese cinema has always been inherently diasporic, shaped by internal and external movements and deeply entangled with geopolitical, cultural, and linguistic shifts. She maps four phases of diasporic filmmaking, from pre-WWII migration to recent global collaborations, highlighting how filmmakers like Wong Kar-wai and Xiaolu Guo negotiate identity and belonging across multiple linguistic and cultural spaces. Central to Wang’s analysis is the emotional and symbolic power of “home” as an imagined yet mutable site of belonging, often mediated through flexible filmmaking and creolized Sinic languages. Rather than a fixed place, “home” becomes a dynamic affective construct, enabling diasporic filmmakers to critique nationalism, reclaim agency, and build alternative cinematic centers within the global Sinophone landscape. |
Book Chapters |
English |
cinema |
diaspora; transnationalism |
General |
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Wang, Yiman. “Alter-Centering Chinese Cinema: The Diasporic Formation.” In A Companion to Chinese Cinema, edited by Yingjin Zhang. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. |
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444355994.ch29 |
| 182 |
Debating "Chineseness" and "National Identity" in the Sinophone Malaysian Films The Journey (2014) and Ola Bola (2016) |
Chew, Hui Yan |
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2022.0 |
This article explores how Sinophone Malaysian filmmaker Chiu Keng Guan addresses questions of Chineseness and national identity in his films The Journey (2014) and Ola Bola (2016). Using a Sinophone studies framework, Chew analyzes how these films portray place-based cultural experiences of Chinese Malaysian and multiethnic communities. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
identity; Guan, Chiu Keng |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Chew, Hui Yan. “Debating ‘Chineseness’ and ‘National Identity’ in the Sinophone Malaysian Films The Journey (2014) and Ola Bola (2016).” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 8, no. 1 (2022): 53–69. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00062_1. |
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| 183 |
Diasporic Moves: Sinophone Epistemology in the Choreography of Dai Ailian |
Wilcox, Emily |
University of Michigan Press |
2020.0 |
Emily Wilcox’s chapter explores the life and choreography of Dai Ailian, a diasporic Chinese dancer who became a foundational figure in modern Chinese dance. Born in Trinidad and trained in Europe, Dai brought her intercultural background to bear on patriotic and ethnic-themed dance in wartime China. Her performances in Hong Kong and Chongqing from the 1940s through 1946 exemplify “Sinophone epistemology”—a critical, place-based perspective that reflects multiply-angulated identities. Wilcox argues that Dai’s diasporic status enabled her to creatively negotiate between cultural forms, audiences, and ideologies, contributing to national and transnational discourses of Chineseness through embodied, intercultural critique. |
Book Chapters |
English |
dance |
identity; epistemology |
East Asia |
China; Hong Kong |
Wilcox, Emily. “Diasporic Moves: Sinophone Epistemology in the Choreography of Dai Ailian.” In Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia, edited by Katherine Mezur and Emily Wilcox. University of Michigan Press, 2020. |
Full text: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eewilcox/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/01/Wilcox-Diasporic-Moves-_Corporeal-Politics-Dancing-East-Asia_-2020.pdf |
| 184 |
Epilogue: Sinophone Writings and the Chinese Diaspora |
Tsu, Jing |
Cambridge University Press |
2010.0 |
In this epilogue, Jing Tsu reflects on the evolving contours of modern Chinese literature, highlighting how Sinophone writings are reshaping the field beyond nation-bound frameworks. She examines how diasporic Chinese literary production—especially in multilingual and multicultural contexts like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and North America—questions conventional notions of Chineseness and literary unity. Tsu argues that emerging Sinophone narratives are challenging linguistic and cultural hegemonies by introducing alternative literary histories that reflect diverse diasporic experiences. The piece ultimately calls for expanding the horizon of modern Chinese literature to include multilingual practices and the complexities of assimilation, identity, and representation across geopolitical contexts. |
Book Chapters |
English |
literature |
diaspora; multilingualism; assimilation |
General |
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Tsu, Jing. “Epilogue: Sinophone Writings and the Chinese Diaspora.” In The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and Stephen Owen. Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521855594.010 |
| 185 |
Playing with the Canon: The Uncanny Pleasure of Intertextuality in the Works of Sinophone Thai Writers Sima Gong and Zeng Xin |
Ehrenwirth, Rebecca |
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2020.0 |
This essay examines how Sinophone Thai writers Sima Gong and Zeng Xin use intertextuality as a strategy to negotiate their literary identity and cultural marginality. Drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny, Ehrenwirth shows how the authors express ambivalence toward both China and Thailand through references to the Chinese literary canon. Their writings simultaneously affirm and question this canon, reflecting a complex, fluid sense of belonging. By situating their work within Sinophone literature and invoking unsettling emotional resonances with a "homeland," the authors explore the boundaries of what constitutes "Chinese" literature. Intertextuality emerges as a key tool for expressing diasporic identity and for seeking recognition from a perceived literary center. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity ; marginality; intertextuality |
Southeast Asia |
Thailand |
Ehrenwirth, Rebecca. “Playing with the Canon: The Uncanny Pleasure of Intertextuality in the Works of Sinophone Thai Writers Sima Gong and Zeng Xin.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 32, no.2 (2020): 136–78. https://doi.org/10.3366/mclc.2020.0017. |
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| 186 |
Recovering the Lost Cantonese Sounds in Pre-handover Hong Kong: Sinophone Politics in Dung Kai-cheung's ‘The Rise and Fall of Wing Shing Street’ (1995) |
Wong, Ka Lee |
Routledge |
2022.0 |
This chapter explores how Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheung uses fiction to construct a Cantonese soundscape in The Rise and Fall of Wing Shing Street (1995). It argues that Dung enacts a literary form of sonic resistance, challenging dominant structures that determine what and who is heard in public discourse. Through aural evocation and the revival of nanyin—a local Cantonese singing tradition—the story reclaims the lost orality of Hong Kong’s cultural soundscape. In doing so, it empowers Hong Kong Sinophone voices to narrate their experiences in Cantonese, the everyday language and emotional register of the local population. |
Book Chapters |
English |
linguistics |
sociolinguistics; Cantonese language; Dung Kai-cheung (董启章) |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wong, Ka Lee. "Recovering the Lost Cantonese Sounds in Pre-handover Hong Kong: Sinophone Politics in Dung Kai-cheung's ‘The Rise and Fall of Wing Shing Street’ (1995)." In Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology, edited by Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith. Taylor & Francis, 2022. |
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003143772-12/recovering-lost-cantonese-sounds-pre-handover-hong-kong-ka-lee-wong?context=ubx&refId=b0b5fe20-4519-4bfe-814a-ac20cc1c445f |
| 187 |
Sinophone Intervention with China: Between National and World Literature |
Wang, David Der-wei |
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2020.0 |
In “Sinophone Intervention with China: Between National and World Literature,” David Der-wei Wang explores the concept of Sinophone literature as a mode of cultural intervention that engages with China from displaced, heterotemporal positions. Introducing the idea of “postloyalism,” Wang reflects on the tension between national belonging and global literary circulation. He argues that Sinophone texts from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and beyond offer a form of literary critique that challenges the linear narratives of modern Chinese history. These interventions resist assimilation into both national and world literature frameworks, instead articulating a poetics of cultural memory and temporal disjunction that reclaims marginalized voices within and beyond the Sinosphere. |
Book Chapters |
English |
literature |
postloyalism; displacement; cultural memory; postcolonial studies |
Cross-region |
China; Hong Kong; Malaysia; Taiwan |
Wang, David Der-wei. "Sinophone Intervention with China: Between National and World Literature." In Texts and Transformations: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Victor H. Mair, edited by Haun Saussy. Cambria Press, 2020. |
url to book: https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=714. |
| 188 |
Denationalizing Identities: The Politics of Performance in the Chinese Diaspora |
Lim, Wah Guan |
Cornell University Press |
2024.0 |
Denationalizing Identities explores how theater and performance shaped competing notions of “Chineseness” across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War and beyond. Focusing on four diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun—Lim examines how their artistic productions offered alternative cultural identities in the face of nationalist state narratives. By tracing how performance challenged imposed affiliations and responded to geopolitical shifts, the book reveals the transnational role of the arts in articulating multiple Chinese identities. It contributes to broader debates on cultural politics, diaspora, and the evolution of identity in the global Sinosphere. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
identity; chineseness; theatre and performance; Cold War ; cultural politics; Chinese-language drama; playwrights; Gao Xingjian 高行健 ; Stan Lai Sheng-chuan 賴聲川; Danny Yung Ning Tsun 榮念曾; Kuo Pao Kun 郭寶崑 |
Cross-region |
China; Hong Kong; Singapore; Taiwan |
Lim, Wah Guan. Denationalizing Identities: The Politics of Performance in the Chinese Diaspora. Cornell University Press, 2024. |
Publisher's page: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774393/denationalizing-identities/#bookTabs=1\n\nhttps://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/denationalizing-identities-chinese-diaspora-wah-guan-lim-08-08-2024/ |
| 189 |
The Dis/Reappearances of Yu Dafu in Ng Kim Chew's Fiction |
Groppe, Alison M. |
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2010.0 |
Groppe examines how Ng Kim Chew reimagines Yu Dafu in three metafictional stories that blend parody with critical reflection on Sinophone Southeast Asian literary identity. Drawing on Sinophone theory and postmodernist parody, Groppe argues that Ng both acknowledges and satirizes Yu’s enduring legacy, exploring how Yu becomes a symbol of cultural exile and literary burden. Through ghostly reappearances, scholarly obsession, and narrative impersonation, Ng critiques the politics of literary canon formation and regional identity. Ultimately, the essay suggests that Yu’s death—rather than his work—becomes a generative absence that spurs Sinophone literary creativity in Malaysia. Ng redirects focus from influence to inspiration, using fiction to probe the complexities of authorship, ethnicity, and historical memory in postcolonial Southeast Asia. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
马华文学; Ng Kim Chew |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Groppe, Alison M. “The Dis/Reappearances of Yu Dafu in Ng Kim Chew’s Fiction.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 22, no.2 (2010): 161–95. |
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| 190 |
Empire of the Chinese Sign: The Question of Chinese Diasporic Imagination in Transnational Literary Production |
Chiu, Kuei-Fen |
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2008.0 |
This article interrogates the celebratory tendency in diasporic literary studies to embrace transnationalism as inherently oppositional to the nation-state. Focusing on Chinese Malaysian and Taiwanese literature during two critical moments—late 1970s to mid-1980s and late 1990s onward—Chiu argues that the “diaspora” sign is unstable and requires historicized analysis. The paper calls for attention to “place” as a critical framework and warns against over-relying on the metaphor of the global city. Instead, it advocates for a grounded “place paradigm” that recognizes localized conditions of cultural production within broader transnational circuits. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
transnationalism |
Cross-region |
Malaysia; Taiwan |
Chiu, Kuei-Fen. “Empire of the Chinese Sign: The Question of Chinese Diasporic Imagination in Transnational Literary Production.” The Journal of Asian Studies 67, no. 2 (2008): 593–620. |
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| 191 |
"Worlding" World Literature from the Literary Periphery: Four Taiwanese Models |
Chiu, Kuei-Fen |
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2018.0 |
This article explores how literary works from Taiwan, as part of the Chinese literary periphery, enter world literature through four models: global multiculturalism (Li Ang), globalization (Wu Mingyi), transnational circulation (Yang Mu), and cross-media adaptation (Chen Li). Combining qualitative interpretation with quantitative metrics such as international recognition indicators and word cloud analyses of reader responses, Chiu proposes a dual approach to understanding the circulation and reception of peripheral literatures. The essay demonstrates how “worlding” enables Taiwanese authors to create meaningful transnational relationships and contests literary hierarchies, contributing to the formation of world literature from the margins. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
cultural marginality |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Chiu, Kuei-Fen. “Worlding” World Literature from the Literary Periphery: Four Taiwanese Models. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 30, no.1 (2018): 13–41. |
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| 192 |
Indigeneity, Map-Mindedness, and World-Literary Cartography: The Poetics and Politics of Li Yongping’s Transregional Chinese Literary Production |
Chan, Cheow Thia |
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2018.0 |
This article examines the transregional literary production of Li Yongping, a Malaysian-born Taiwanese author, and his representation of Borneo as a literary space. Chan introduces the concept of “world literary cartography” to analyze how Li constructs a distinct cosmopolitan subjectivity through geographic dis/affiliation. Using the trope of indigeneity in Where the Great River Ends, Li resists both Malaysian nativist criticism and Chinese literary centrality. The article argues that Li’s literary cartography reflects the dynamic formation of cultural identity within and across national borders, bringing indigenous and diasporic perspectives into the world literary space and reframing the geopolitics of Chinese literary modernity. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
literary geography |
Southeast Asia |
Borneo |
Chan, Cheow Thia. “Indigeneity, Map-Mindedness, and World-Literary Cartography: The Poetics and Politics of Li Yongping’s Transregional Chinese Literary Production.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 30, no.1 (2018): 63–86. |
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| 193 |
From Nobel to Hugo: Reading Chinese Science Fiction as World Literature |
Chau, Angie |
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2018.0 |
This essay investigates how Chinese science fiction has gained international recognition through major literary awards such as the Hugo. Focusing on Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem and Hao Jingfang’s Folding Beijing, both translated by Ken Liu, the article argues that science fiction’s genre flexibility enables Chinese literature to bypass the high/low culture divide. The intersection of global market demand and literary prestige creates a channel for contemporary Chinese literature to enter world literature. Chau contends that science fiction offers a lens through which global readers can engage with China’s pressing social concerns while recognizing its literary modernity. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
transnationalism |
East Asia |
China |
Chau, Angie. “From Nobel to Hugo: Reading Chinese Science Fiction as World Literature.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 30, no. 1 (2018): 110–135. |
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| 194 |
Beyond National Allegory: Mo Yan's Fiction as World Literature |
Xu, Hangping |
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2018.0 |
Since he won the Noble Prize, Mo Yan has received harsh criticism for his “inside-the-system” status. This essay treats the controversial reception of Mon Yan as a departure point to understand the ideological tension at Chinese literature’s admission into the world republic of letters. By offering a historical account of the system (tizhi), situating Mo Yan’s aesthetic intervention in the 1980s, and closely reading two novellas, namely, Red Sorghum and The Transparent Carrot, the essay argues that Mo Yan’s fiction recovers or rescues discarded historical subjects of the folk space (minjian)—which can be construed as “Sinophone articulation.” The aesthetic contemplation emerging from his historical intervention upsets unexamined, mechanic principles of the institutionalized political and social imagination, leading to a critique and a reform of the established historical narrative. The essay suggests that literary autonomy is not a universal given judged out of context; Chinese (world) literature is thinkable only in relation to a specific time and space. Autonomy should be regarded as a spectrum rather than a clear-cut dichotomy, and understood in a social-political context of the system. --original abstract\n |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
transnationalism |
East Asia |
China |
Xu, Hangping. “Beyond National Allegory: Mo Yan’s Fiction as World Literature.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 30, no.1 (2018): 163–189. |
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| 195 |
Global Literature and the Technologies of Recognition |
Shih, Shu-mei |
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2004.0 |
Recent interest in globalizing literary studies has largely involved attempts to locate conjunctures between contemporary literature and the economic formation of global capitalism and thereby to name a new literary structure of feeling—structure in terms of the organization of various literatures into a world system and feeling in terms of the literary production of new affects in new forms, styles, and genres. Its precedent is the idea of “world literature,” first articulated by Goethe in 1827 and recently recuperated. While many scholars resuscitating this concept offer a nominal apology for its Eurocentric origins, this Eurocentrism's constitutive hierarchies and asymmetries are seldom analyzed. Twenty-five years after Edward Said's Orientalism and the book's specific criticism of Goethe, it appears that the critique of Eurocentrism in general has exhausted itself, that one only needs to show awareness of it because it is predictable. Instead of working through the problem, one gives recognition to it, which serves as an expedient and efficient strategy of displacement, a tropological caveat, able to push aside obstacles on the path to globalist literary studies of global literature. -- Original abstract |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
transnationalism |
general |
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Shih, Shu-mei. “Global Literature and the Technologies of Recognition.” PMLA 119, no.1 (2004): 16–30. |
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| 196 |
馬華電影的土腔風格： 以黃明志《辣死你媽 ！ 2.0》 為例 / The Accented Style of Sinophone Malaysian Film: A Case Study on Namewee’s"NasiLemak" 2.0. |
Hee, Wei Siam |
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2016.0 |
This paper uses Sinophone theory and accented cinema theory to explore how the accented style of NasiLemak 2.0 uses sound and image to perform Sinophone identity in the films' journey of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. This paper analyses the re-presentation of Sino-Malay relations in Sinophone Malaysian film and discovers that it refuses to rest on the standard ethnic framework. Rather, the accented style of these films gives play to the multiply mediated, multidirectional critical agency of Sinophone theory: the Sinification discourse of "authenticity" is criticized, while at the same time a performance of national identities is used to resist the presence of racismand expose the essentialized Malay mythologizationof indigeneity. -- original abstract |
Journal Articles |
Chinese |
cinema |
linguistic performance |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Hee, Wei Siam. “馬華電影的土腔風格：以黃明志《辣死你媽！2.0》為例 / The Accented Style of Sinophone Malaysian Film: A Case Study on Namewee’s Nasi Lemak 2.0.” Journal of Oriental Studies 48, no. 2 (2016): 75–95. [in Chinese] |
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| 197 |
Hong Kong Identity in Question: Fruit Chan’s Uncanny Narrative and (Post-)97 Complex. |
Wu, Chia-rong |
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2017.0 |
This article examines Fruit Chan’s 2014 sci-fi film The Midnight After through the lens of Sinophone studies, focusing on how the film articulates Hong Kong’s (post-)1997 anxieties and resistance to China-centric cultural dominance. By analyzing the film's use of alienation, political allegory, and localist imagery—such as the strategic use of David Bowie's "Space Oddity"—Wu argues that Chan crafts an uncanny cinematic narrative that critiques the ideological rift between Hong Kong and mainland China. The film becomes a vehicle for reimagining Hong Kong identity amid increasing sociopolitical pressure from the center. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
identity; cinema and politics |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wu, Chia-rong. “Hong Kong Identity in Question: Fruit Chan’s Uncanny Narrative and (Post-)97 Complex.” American Journal of Chinese Studies 24, no.1 (2017): 43–56. |
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| 198 |
What Is Mandarin? The Social Project of Language Standardization in Early Republican China. |
Weng, Jeffrey |
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2018.0 |
Scholars who study language often see standard or official languages as oppressive, helping the socially advantaged to entrench themselves as elites. This article questions this view by examining the Chinese case, in which early twentieth-century language reformers attempted to remake their society’s language situation to further national integration. Classical Chinese, accessible only to a privileged few, was sidelined in favor of Mandarin, a national standard newly created for the many. This article argues that Mandarin’s creation reflected an entirely new vision of society. It draws on archival sources on the design and promulgation of Mandarin from the 1910s to the 1930s to discuss how the way the language was standardized reflected the nature of the imagined future society it was meant to serve. Language reform thus represented a radical rethinking of how society should be organized: linguistic modernity was to be a national modernity, in which all the nation’s people would have access to the new official language, and thus increased opportunities for advancement. |
Journal Articles |
English |
language |
modernity |
East Asia |
China |
Weng, Jeffrey. “What Is Mandarin? The Social Project of Language Standardization in Early Republican China.” The Journal of Asian Studies 77, no.3 (2018): 611–33. |
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| 199 |
Language, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Literary Taxonomy: Ng Kim Chew and Mahua Literature. |
Rojas, Carlos |
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2016.0 |
This article analyzes Ng Kim Chew’s short story collection From Island to Island (2001) to explore how literary taxonomies based on language, ethnicity, or nationality affect the categorization of Chinese, Sinophone, and Mahua literatures. Rojas focuses on stories set on isolated islands, where characters are estranged from their linguistic or cultural roots, allowing a narrative exploration of how rigid literary classifications can obscure more nuanced identities. Drawing on Wittgenstein’s concept of “family resemblance,” the author proposes a more fluid, multidimensional taxonomy that reflects the complex interplay of linguistic, cultural, and national affiliations without privileging any single axis of identity. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Rojas, Carlos. “Language, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Literary Taxonomy: Ng Kim Chew and Mahua Literature.” PMLA 131, no. 5 (2016): 1316–27. |
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| 200 |
Transnational Chinese Cinema with a French Twist: Emily Tang Xiaobai’s ‘Conjugation’ and Jia Zhangke’s ‘The World’ as Sinofrench Films. |
Bloom, Michelle E. |
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2009.0 |
This article introduces the concept of “sinofrench cinema” to examine the transnational entanglements between China and France in contemporary film. Focusing on Emily Tang Xiaobai’s Conjugation (2001) and Jia Zhangke’s The World (2004), the article argues that both films reflect socio-political realities in Mainland China while participating in global cultural circulation, particularly through connections to France. These connections appear through funding, co-productions, language, and the symbolic presence of French icons. Bloom suggests that rather than understanding these films through a simplistic East/West binary, they should be viewed as products of complex, multilayered transnational flows involving not only France and China but also Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, and Italy. “Sinofrench” cinema, then, is framed as a site of cultural negotiation and hybridization, illustrating the dynamics of global film aesthetics and market logics. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
China; transnationalism |
Cross-region |
China; France |
Bloom, Michelle. “Transnational Chinese Cinema with a French Twist: Emily Tang Xiaobai’s ‘Conjugation’ and Jia Zhangke’s ‘The World’ as Sinofrench Films.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21, no. 2 (2009): 198–245. |
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| 201 |
"But in What Way Is It Ours?": Guo Songfen and the Question of Homeland. |
Chen, Li-Ping |
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2020.0 |
This article examines Guo Songfen’s short story “Moon Seal” (1984) to explore the notion of “homeland” in diasporic Taiwanese literature. Guo navigates a fractured sense of belonging across Taiwan, the ancestral mainland, and his ideal of socialist China. Rather than treating homeland as fixed, the author shows how Guo critiques the ideological underpinnings of national identity and highlights the impossibility of return. His self-imposed exile becomes a form of mourning, with literature serving as the sole space for reconstructing memory and belonging. The article contributes to Sinophone studies by rethinking homeland as a complex postcolonial construct. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity; displacement |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Chen, Li-Ping. “‘But in What Way Is It Ours?’: Guo Songfen and the Question of Homeland.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 32, no. 2 (2020): 100–135. https://doi.org/10.3366/mclc.2020.0016. |
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| 202 |
流寓與本土意識：新加坡華文舊體詩中的南洋色彩 / Sojourner’s Sentiments and Localization: Exploring the Nanyang Flavors in Singapore’s Classical Chinese Poetry |
Lam, Lap |
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2015.0 |
"Through the study of four types of "Nanyang flavours," namely, social practice and customs, local language, products and scenic spots, it attempts to examine the poets' response and feelings about Southeast Asia and its way of life in different historical stages." |
Journal Articles |
Chinese |
literature |
localization |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Lam, Lap. “流寓與本土意識：新加坡華文舊體詩中的南洋色彩 / Sojourner’s Sentiments and Localization: Exploring the Nanyang Flavors in Singapore’s Classical Chinese Poetry.” Journal of Oriental Studies 48, no. 1 (2015): 73–108. [In Chinese] |
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| 203 |
Articulating Sadness, Gendering Space: The Politics and Poetics of Taiyu Films from 1960s Taiwan |
Zhang, Yingjin |
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2013.0 |
Zhang examines 1960s Taiyu (Taiwanese-dialect) films as a parallel and unofficial cinematic tradition that articulated sadness and gendered space during Taiwan’s sociopolitical transition. Through themes such as endangered family/nation, female vision, and male suffering, Taiyu cinema challenged dominant cultural narratives. The essay highlights how these films drew from diverse cultural sources and employed a strategy of translation and transformation. By centering on the affective and linguistic dimensions of Taiyu films, Zhang reveals their role in shaping ethnic and gendered identities within a marginalized cinematic space. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
language politics |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Zhang, Yingjin. “Articulating Sadness, Gendering Space: The Politics and Poetics of Taiyu Films from 1960s Taiwan.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 25, no. 1 (2013): 1–46. |
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| 204 |
Home and Identity En Route in Chinese Diaspora—Reading Ha Jin’s A Free Life |
Li, Melody Yunzi |
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2014.0 |
This paper explores the conceptualizations of identity and home in Ha Jin's literary identity and his 2007 migrant novel A Free Life through the lens of diaspora discourse. In his seminal study, Safran attributes diasporas' longing for homeland to the pull factors in the old world and the push factors in the new world. However, Ha Jin's literary trajectory and A Free Life suggest a new dimension to this: the old world (China) and the new world (America) pushing and pulling diasporas constantly, forcing them to be always en route between the two. Their identities are constantly relocated and reconstructed along with their routes. The paper explores how Ha Jin and his novel challenge the limits of identity labels like Chinese, American, and Chinese-American, while portraying the complex identity formation of diasporas.\n |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity |
North America |
United States |
Li, Melody Yunzi. “Home and Identity En Route in Chinese Diaspora—Reading Ha Jin’s A Free Life.” Pacific Coast Philology 49, no. 2 (2014): 203–220. https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.49.2.0203. |
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| 205 |
The Imaginative Materialism of Wen in Ng Kim Chew’s Malayan Communist Writing |
Wong, Nicholas Y. H. |
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2018.0 |
This article examines how Ng Kim Chew’s engagement with Chinese literary tradition, particularly through Zhang Taiyan and Lu Xun, reconfigures Mahua literature’s genealogy and ideology. Ng’s fiction and essays challenge the dominant literary history of Mahua writing by creatively aligning it with late-Qing philological skepticism and May Fourth aesthetics. Through parodic narratives and allegorical commentary, Ng critiques essentialist nationalism and reimagines the function of classical Chinese writing (wen) in representing Cold War-era Malayan communism. Wong argues that Ng’s concept of “imaginative materialism” fuses literary form, historical inquiry, and political critique to articulate an alternative aesthetic modernity rooted in both classical legibility and revolutionary disruption. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
modernity; |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Wong, Nicholas Y. H. “The Imaginative Materialism of Wen in Ng Kim Chew’s Malayan Communist Writing.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 40 (2018): 163–198. |
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Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora |
Tan, Chee-Beng |
Routledge |
2013.0 |
Edited by Chee-Beng Taniwith contributions from leading scholars across disciplines, this comprehensive interdisciplinary handbook explores the Chinese diaspora on a global scale. It offers detailed analysis from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, covering topics such as migration patterns, state policies, identity formation, and transnational networks. The handbook is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policymakers to understand the complex dynamics of Chinese migration and diaspora identity.\n\n |
Edited Volumes |
English |
history |
diaspora; migration; identity; transnationalism |
General |
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Tan, Chee-Beng, ed. Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora. Routledge, 2013. |
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203100387. |
| 207 |
From Diasporic Nationalism to Transcolonial Consciousness: Lao She's Singaporean Satire Little Po's Birthday |
Bernards, Brian |
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2014.0 |
This article analyzes Lao She’s children’s novella Little Po’s Birthday (1931) as a shift from diasporic nationalism to transcolonial consciousness. Written during Lao She’s time in Singapore, the story satirizes diasporic Han ethnocentrism and its complicity in British colonial hierarchies. Through playful depictions of multiethnic schoolchildren, Lao She critiques imperial racial logic and promotes a pluralistic vision of identity. The novella reveals a desire for alternative modernities and reflects Lao She’s reconciliation with his Manchu heritage amid China's national transformation. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
transcolonial consciousness; diaspora |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Bernards, Brian. “From Diasporic Nationalism to Transcolonial Consciousness: Lao She’s Singaporean Satire, Little Po’s Birthday.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 26, no. 1 (2014): 1–40. |
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| 208 |
“Diary of a Madwoman” Traversing the Diaspora: Rewriting Lu Xun in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach |
FitzGerald, Carolyn |
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2014.0 |
FitzGerald interprets Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach as a feminist diasporic rewriting of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman. The novel critiques patriarchy, colonialism, and Cold War geopolitics by replacing Lu Xun’s madman with a madwoman split between Taiwan, the U.S., and China. The protagonist’s body becomes a site of cannibalistic violence symbolizing fractured national identities and transnational displacement. The article balances Asian American and allegorical readings to show how Nieh challenges both Western and Chinese literary-political traditions, using madness to dramatize diaspora, gendered violence, and cultural schizophrenia. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity |
Cross-region |
United States; Taiwan; China |
FitzGerald, Carolyn. “Diary of a Madwoman” Traversing the Diaspora: Rewriting Lu Xun in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 26, no. 2 (2014): 38–88. |
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| 210 |
Diaspora and Belonging in Panama: Cultural Performance and National Identity for Panamanians of Chinese Descent |
Blake, Corey Michael |
UC Riverside |
2019.0 |
This dissertation examines the cultural and social presence of Chinese Panamanians, one of the largest Chinese diasporas in Latin America. Tracing migration since 1854, it analyzes how music, dance, religious practice, and community performance construct and negotiate bicultural and transnational identities. Drawing on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in Panama City (2017–2018), the study argues that cultural performance serves as a tool for asserting belonging, challenging marginalization, and redefining Panamanian nationhood. By integrating Chinese art forms into public and personal rituals, Chinese Panamanians transform “Chineseness” into a symbol of national inclusion, reshaping the boundaries of identity and citizenship. |
Dissertations |
English |
anthropology |
Chineseness; diaspora; identity; migrants; transnational |
Central America |
Panama |
Blake, Corey Michael. "Diaspora and Belonging in Panama: Cultural Performance and National Identity for Panamanians of Chinese Descent." PhD diss., University of California, Riverside, 2019. ProQuest (22621870). |
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32p9t8vt |
| 211 |
Singing Sinophone: A Case Study of Teresa Teng, Leehom Wang, and Jay Chou |
Lee, Lorin Ann |
University of Texus, Austin |
2012.0 |
This thesis explores how Sinophone pop artists Teresa Teng, Leehom Wang, and Jay Chou articulate cultural identity through music. Lee situates their works within the context of Sinophone studies, arguing that their multilingual, diasporic, and stylistic hybridity challenges monolithic notions of Chineseness. By analyzing the aesthetics and politics of Mandopop, the thesis contributes to emerging discussions about the role of sound and performance in shaping identity in Sinophone communities beyond mainland China. |
Theses |
English |
music |
identity |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Lee, Lorin Ann. "Singing Sinophone: A Case Study of Teresa Teng, Leehom Wang, and Jay Chou". Master’s thesis, University of Texas, Austin, 2012. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/81a2af6d-b64a-4264-bc7b-242d9a1f6cc8. |
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| 212 |
"Chineseness" and Tongzhi in (Post)colonial Diasporic Hong Kong |
Wat, Chi Ch'eng |
Texas A & M University |
2012.0 |
Wat’s thesis explores how colonial constructions of “Chineseness” influence perceptions of sexual minorities in Hong Kong, particularly in the post-handover context. Drawing on interviews and legislative discourse, the study highlights how internalized colonial ideologies and right-wing Christian rhetoric shape attitudes toward tongzhi (queer) communities. It analyzes responses to domestic violence legislation and frames queer identity politics as a battleground for negotiating diasporic identity, Christian morality, and postcolonial power in Hong Kong. The work contributes to discussions on queer Sinophone studies, religion, and cultural nationalism. |
Theses |
English |
history |
LGBTQ; postcolonial studies |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wat, Chi Ch'eng. "‘Chineseness’ and Tongzhi in (Post)colonial Diasporic Hong Kong." Master’s thesis, Texas A&M University, 2012. https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/items/b40426c9-0c0e-4a62-8fe4-a7b0ddb1d8b1. |
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| 213 |
Towards an Itinerant Sinophone: Transnational Literary Collaboration in the Writings of Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Lao She |
Iwasaki, Clara Chiyoko |
UCLA |
2015.0 |
This dissertation reexamines the concept of world literature through the itineraries of three modern Chinese writers—Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Lao She—whose movements and texts illuminate multidirectional literary circulation. Rather than unidirectional flows from periphery to center, their trajectories reveal shifting intersections across languages, places, and geopolitical contexts. Xiao Hong’s exile writings in Shanghai, Zhang Ailing’s career spanning Hong Kong, Shanghai, and the U.S., and Lao She’s collaborations and frustrations in Anglophone publishing show how war, colonialism, and migration shaped literary production. By emphasizing travel, translation, and cross-cultural exchange, the study highlights globalized connections that unsettle national and canon-based models. |
Dissertations |
English |
literature |
transnational; exile; migration; Xiao Hong; Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang); Lao She |
Cross-region |
China; Hong Kong; Taiwan; United States |
Iwasaki, Clara Chiyoko. "Towards an Itinerant Sinophone: Transnational Literary Collaboration in the Writings of Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Lao She." PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2015. ProQuest (3722746). |
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qm6x1xk |
| 214 |
Overlapping Scriptworlds: Chinese Literature as a Global Assemblage |
Sim, Wai-chew |
Purdue University |
2019.0 |
Sim applies the concept of “scriptworld” to explore interactions among Chinese, English, and Malay literary systems in Southeast Asia. Through close reading of texts by Chia Joo Ming, M. L. Mohamed, and T. H. Kwee, the article shows how multilingual texts form rhizomatic literary assemblages that challenge national or linguistic boundaries. Sim proposes a “Bandungist” framework of South-South comparativity, advocating a global, non-hierarchical vision for Sinophone and Chinese literary studies rooted in transregional dialogue and layered cultural belonging. This piece pushes Sinophone studies beyond monolingual and China-centric paradigms. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
multilingualism |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore; Malaysia; Indonesia |
Sim, Wai-chew. "Overlapping Scriptworlds: Chinese Literature as a Global Assemblage." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21, no. 4 (2019). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3206. |
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| 215 |
Enduring the Long Take: Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs and the Dialectical Image |
Lo, Louis |
Purdue University |
2019.0 |
Louis Lo analyzes Stray Dogs (2013) by Tsai Ming-liang through Walter Benjamin’s concept of the “dialectical image,” arguing that the film critiques neoliberal Taipei via a slow cinema style. Through extended long takes and nearly static visuals, the film resists commodified cinematic spectacle and invites a contemplative viewing mode. Lo compares the protagonist’s destitution to figures from both 19th-century literature and Sinophone cinema, including Hou Hsiao-hsien and Jia Zhangke. The essay situates Stray Dogs as a revolutionary intervention in urban cinematic representation, shedding light on those marginalized by modern capitalist development. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
cities |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Lo, Louis. "Enduring the Long Take: Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs and the Dialectical Image." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21, no. 5 (2019). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3264 |
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| 216 |
(Be)longing and Otherness: China and the Mainland Chinese in Two Sinophone Malaysian Short Stories |
Paoliello, Antonio |
National Chengchi University |
2020.0 |
By employing the concepts of sojourner (Siu), middleman (Bonacich) and settler (Uriely), this paper examines how ethnic Chinese characters in two Sinophone Malaysian short stories frame their identity and construct their conception of home. Through close readings of “Jun zi guxiang lai”, by Shang Wanyun, and “Dage kuankuan zoulai”, by Li Kaixuan, three interconnected issues are explored: the relation of the Chinese Malaysian subject to China, the representation of China, and how these two authors approach the construction of the Self when the Other is constituted by the mainland Chinese |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Paoliello, Antonio. "(Be)longing and Otherness: China and the Mainland Chinese in Two Sinophone Malaysian Short Stories." Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture 14, no. 1 (2020): 61–87. https://doi.org/10.30395/WSR.202012_14(1).0003 |
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| 217 |
Solaris and the Dao: The Reception of Stanisław Lem's Novel in the Sinophone World |
Wybieralska, Zofia Anna |
Adam Mickiewicz University |
2021.0 |
This article examines how Stanisław Lem’s sci-fi classic Solaris was received in the Sinophone world. Initially unknown until a 2003 English-to-Chinese translation, Solaris gained greater attention only after a 2010 Polish-to-Chinese version appeared during a resurgence of Chinese and Taiwanese science fiction. Wybieralska explores how Sinophone readers interpreted the novel’s philosophical and existential themes, often through the lens of Daoist thought. The article highlights the role of translation, timing, and cultural frameworks in shaping literary reception, showing how Lem’s work resonates differently across linguistic and cultural boundaries, thus enriching global interpretations of the text. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
translation |
East Asia |
China; Taiwan |
Wybieralska, Zofia Anna. "Solaris and the Dao: The Reception of Stanisław Lem’s Novel in the Sinophone World." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka 40 (2021): 121–151. https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/29323. |
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| 218 |
Identities in Motion: Immigrant Representation in Sinophone Cinemas |
Chen, Tzu-chin |
UCLA |
2021.0 |
This dissertation examines immigrant representation in Sinophone cinema from 2000 to 2020, focusing on how film reshapes perceptions of immigrants and engages questions of nation, identity, and belonging. Analyzing works from Taiwan, Burma, and the Chinese diaspora, the study considers both inter-Asian and global contexts. Case studies include depictions of migrant workers in Taiwan, new immigrant women challenging the Xiangtu tradition, Sinophone Burmese perspectives in Midi Z’s films, and female migrants navigating London in The Receptionist. By situating immigrant cinema as a site of complex cultural practice, the project rethinks nationhood, gender, and identity in transnational Sinophone studies. |
Dissertations |
English |
cinema |
migrants; women; gender; identity; transnational |
Cross-region |
Taiwan; Burma |
Chen, Tzu-chin. "Identities in Motion: Immigrant Representation in Sinophone Cinemas." PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2022. ProQuest (29394499). |
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7619x20c |
| 220 |
Narrating Ethnic Relations in Sinophone Malaysian Fiction: "Wei xiang" as a Case Study |
Paoliello, Antonio |
Firenze University Press |
2018.0 |
Through the textual analysis of "Wei xiang" a Sinophone Malaysian short story by Ding Yun, the paper argues that Sinophone Malaysian fiction, by presenting Malaysia in its ethnic diversity, transcends the official label of sectional, ethnic or community-based literature. Moreover, the article claims that, through focusing on the struggles and the preoccupations of the Malaysian people regardless of their ethnic background, Ding Yun's story, although not written in the national language, should be part of the Kesusasteraan Nasional Malaysia (Malaysian national literature) |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
ethnic relations |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Paoliello, Antonio. "Narrating Ethnic Relations in Sinophone Malaysian Fiction: 'Wei xiang' as a Case Study." LEA 7 (2018): 263–278. |
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| 221 |
Beyond New Waves: Gender and Sexuality in Sinophone Women's Cinema from the 1980s to the 2000s |
Kang, Kai |
University of California, Riverside |
2015.0 |
This dissertation offers a comparative study of Sinophone women’s cinema in post-1976 China, post-1984 Hong Kong, and post-1987 Taiwan, bridging Chinese film studies, Sinophone studies, transnational feminism, and gender and sexuality studies. Focusing on films by Huang Shuqin, Li Yu, Zero Chou, Ann Hui, and Mabel Cheung, it examines how women directors navigate sociopolitical forces shaping their filmmaking and global reception. Through melodrama, recovered family histories, and representations of gender, nation, and modernity, these films negotiate Confucian, colonial, socialist, and patriarchal frameworks. The project fills a gap in scholarship and contributes to debates on nationalism, gender, and sexuality across Sinophone contexts. |
Dissertations |
English |
cinema |
women; gender; sexuality; nationalism |
East Asia |
China; Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Kang, Kai. "Beyond New Waves: Gender and Sexuality in Sinophone Women's Cinema from the 1980s to the 2000s." PhD diss., University of California, Riverside, 2015. ProQuest (3702308). |
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h13x81f |
| 222 |
China and the Overseas Chinese Quest for Identity in Hun de zhuisu, a Sinophone Malaysian Short Story |
Paoliello, Antonio |
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2010.0 |
This article examines the intertwined issues of language and identity in Chen Zhengxin’s short story Hun de zhuisu. Paoliello argues that for Sinophone Malaysian writers, language is not merely a tool of communication but a carrier of cultural and personal identity. The story explores how ethnic Chinese characters perceive China—as homeland, cultural reference, or imagined space—and how their linguistic choices shape their self-understanding. By analyzing characters’ shifting identifications and contradictory feelings about China, the essay challenges essentialist views of “Chineseness” and standard language ideology. The piece contributes to broader debates in Sinophone studies about hybridity, diaspora, and the politics of language in shaping postcolonial and diasporic identities. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Paoliello, Antonio. "China and the Overseas Chinese Quest for Identity in Hun de zhuisu, a Sinophone Malaysian Short Story." Open Cultural Studies 4, no. 1 (2020): 59–73. |
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| 223 |
Renegotiating Diasporic Identities: The Sinophone Articulations of Liu Yichang |
Tan, Jessica Li Wen |
HKUST |
2014.0 |
Tan investigates the works of Liu Yichang through the lens of Sinophone literature and diaspora studies, focusing on his experiences across Shanghai, Malaya, and Hong Kong. The thesis argues that Liu’s hybrid narrative styles and themes of memory and nostalgia reflect an ongoing negotiation of diasporic identity, challenging monolithic understandings of the Chinese diaspora. By grounding his fiction in “place-specific” cultural encounters, Tan highlights how Liu’s writings articulate the complexities of belonging, origin, and displacement within and beyond Sinophone communities. |
Theses |
English |
literature |
Liu, Yichang; identity; placed based memory |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong; Malaysia; Shanghai |
Tan, Jessica Li Wen. "Renegotiating Diasporic Identities: The Sinophone Articulations of Liu Yichang." Master’s thesis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2014. |
https://lbezone.hkust.edu.hk/bib/b1301495 |
| 224 |
At the Margins of the Margins: Liang Fang and Sinophone Sarawakian Fiction |
Paoliello, Antonio |
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2019.0 |
This article analyzes the short story “Longtuzhu” by Sarawakian author Liang Fang to spotlight the distinctive position of Sinophone Sarawakian literature. Paoliello argues that despite its marginality—geographically within East Malaysia and linguistically outside the Malay-language literary mainstream—this body of literature addresses complex themes like environmental degradation and interethnic relations. He asserts that Liang Fang’s work reflects a unique cultural sensibility shaped by local realities, particularly the hybrid Sino-Iban identity. By examining narrative strategies and thematic choices, the article challenges dominant national literary frameworks and calls for greater international attention to this overlooked yet culturally rich literary field. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
cultural marginality |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Paoliello, Antonio. "At the Margins of the Margins: Liang Fang and Sinophone Sarawakian Fiction." Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 7, no. 12 (2019): 16–29. |
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| 225 |
Complétude institutionnelle et sécurité linguistique dans le monde sinophone: les Hakka à Hong Kong et à Taïwan |
Dupré, Jean-François |
Société québécoise de science politique |
2017.0 |
Dupré explores the concept of institutional completeness through a comparative study of the Hakka minority in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He argues that institutional structures shape the linguistic and cultural security of Han minorities. In Hong Kong, Cantonese dominance and localist movements have marginalized Hakka, while in Taiwan, language revival efforts benefit from a more inclusive, multicultural framework. Taiwan’s partial recognition of institutional completeness has helped sustain minority languages such as Hakka and aboriginal tongues. The study demonstrates how different political contexts influence perceptions of linguistic identity and security, offering broader implications for language preservation in multilingual societies. |
Journal Articles |
French |
linguistics |
linguistic minorities; Hakka |
East Asia |
Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Dupré, Jean-François. "Complétude institutionnelle et sécurité linguistique dans le monde sinophone: les Hakka à Hong Kong et à Taïwan." Politique et Sociétés 36, no. 3 (2017): 73–92. [In French] |
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Marginalization Inside-Out: Thoughts on Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature |
Prado Fonts, Carles |
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Departament d'Historia Moderna |
2006.0 |
This article argues that contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature are in a position of double marginalization: exogenous and endogenous. On the one hand, they remain marginalized vis-à-vis the global literary system. On the other hand, specific works of Chinese and Sinophone literature are also repressed by the internal dynamics of the field. After having briefly explored these two conditions, the article presents a few (Utopian) tactics of intervention in order to modify this situation-especially in the Catalan and Spanish context. By analyzing this problematic, the article wants to suggest that, in the academic and literary sphere of the Humanities, the complex relation between China and the West needs an informed, ethical and critical interdisciplinarity |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
cultural marginality |
General |
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Prado Fonts, Carles. “Marginalization Inside-Out: Thoughts on Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature.” HMiC: Història Moderna i Contemporània 4 (2006): 41–54. https://raco.cat/index.php/HMiC/article/view/53272\n. |
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| 227 |
Self, Other and Other-Self: The Representation of Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Malaysian Fiction |
Paoliello, Antonio |
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
2012.0 |
This dissertation examines contemporary Sinophone Malaysian fiction, focusing on the construction and representation of Chinese Malaysian identity. Drawing on a curated corpus of short stories and novellas, the study analyzes how authors depict intraethnic interactions with Chinese from other regions and interethnic relationships with Malays, aboriginal groups, and other Malaysian communities. By systematizing, critically analyzing, and partially translating these works into English, the project highlights underexplored themes in Sinophone Malaysian literature. It demonstrates how literary representations negotiate questions of belonging, cultural difference, and identity formation, offering insights into the social, cultural, and transnational dimensions of Chinese Malaysian experiences. |
Dissertations |
English |
literature |
ethnic relations; identity |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Paoliello, Antonio. "Self, Other and Other-Self: The Representation of Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Malaysian Fiction." PhD diss., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. |
https://ddd.uab.cat/record/127417 |
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Is Sinophone Malaysian Literature a Minor Literature? On How and Why Non-Western Traditions Should Enter the Field of Literary Theory |
Paoliello, Antonio |
Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
2012.0 |
Antonio Paoliello’s chapter examines Sinophone Malaysian literature through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of minor literature. He argues that this body of literature, often overlooked in Western academia, fulfills the three characteristics of minor literature: deterritorialization of language, inherent political engagement, and collective enunciation. Sinophone Malaysian literature, written in Chinese by an ethnic minority in a non-Sinitic nation, reflects linguistic hybridity, political resistance, and cultural marginalization. Paoliello underscores the unique position of Sinophone writers, especially He Shufang, whose work exemplifies hybrid linguistic expression and ethnic contestation. The chapter further calls for the integration of non-Western literary traditions into global theory, promoting mutual enrichment between Western theoretical models and peripheral literatures. |
Book Chapters |
English |
literature |
cultural marginality |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Paoliello, Antonio. "Is Sinophone Malaysian Literature a Minor Literature? On How and Why Non-Western Traditions Should Enter the Field of Literary Theory." In Weaving New Perspectives Together: Some Reflections on Literary Studies, edited by María Alonso Alonso, Jeannette Bello Mota, Alba de Béjar Muíños and Laura Torrado Mariñas. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/266779 |
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| 230 |
Sinophone Circuits: Chinese-language Cultural Production, Southeast Asia, and the Cold War |
Tan, Li Wen Jessica |
Harvard University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses |
2021.0 |
This dissertation examines transnational literary and media practices in Sinophone Southeast Asia during the Cold War, challenging spatially oriented models of the Sinophone paradigm. Focusing on 1945–1960s cultural production, it highlights the agency of Chinese diasporic writers, editors, and filmmakers in forging networks, traveling, and producing across Southeast Asia and East Asia. Through the concepts of “worlding” and Sinophone heterotemporalities, the study analyzes literary and visual strategies that create alternative temporalities, foreground gender, kinship, and revolutionary histories, and contest ideological divides. The project reconceptualizes Sinophone studies, emphasizing temporality and transnational circuits as critical lenses for understanding Southeast Asian Chinese modernities. |
Dissertations |
English |
literature |
geopolitics; transnational; temporality |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Tan, Li Wen Jessica. "Sinophone Circuits: Chinese-Language Cultural Production, Southeast Asia, and the Cold War." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2021. ProQuest (28651081). |
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| 231 |
Self-Translation as Method: Modern Sinophone Self-Translators and their Transmediated Afterlives |
Friedman, Ursula Deser |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
2024.0 |
This dissertation investigates self-translation and transmediation in the works of Kenneth Pai, Eileen Chang, Ha Jin, and Regina Kanyu Wang, exploring how Sinophone creators reinvent language and culture across media, genres, and languages. By analyzing texts and their transmediated iterations, it examines hybrid identity, diasporic subjectivity, and intercultural dialogue. The study introduces the “Shadow Sinophone” framework to capture subversive, multilingual, and transmedial literature, emphasizing self-translation as a hermeneutic and reparative process that reconciles trauma and reconfigures national and individual memory. It positions Sinophone self-translators as agents of cultural transcreation, bridging heterogeneous temporalities and challenging canonical literary and linguistic norms. |
Dissertations |
English |
literature |
translation; intercultural; transmediation; multilingual; Kenneth Pai (Bai Xianyong); Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing); Ha Jin; Regina Kanyu Wang |
North America |
United States |
Friedman, Ursula Deser. "Self-Translation as Method: Modern Sinophone Self-Translators and their Transmediated Afterlives." PhD diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024. ProQuest (31235313). |
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w17x548 |
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Living and Dying without a Care in the World: Twenty-First Century Sinophone Cinema's Affective Attunement to the Growing Deficit Yet Enduring Feminization of Care |
Lee, Kwan Yin |
University of Oregon |
2024.0 |
This dissertation explores how twenty-first-century Sinophone films—A Simple Life (2011), Ilo Ilo (2013), and Still Human (2018)—engage audiences emotionally with the realities of care under neoliberal austerity. Rather than framing these films primarily as progressive representations of domestic workers, Lee focuses on their affective impact: evoking nostalgia, awkwardness, and empathy that simultaneously validate and obscure systemic inequities. Through this lens, the study reveals how cinema both reflects and sustains the transnational care economy that relies on underpaid Southeast Asian women, highlighting the tension between emotional resonance and economic exploitation in contemporary visual culture. |
Dissertations |
English |
cinema |
workers; women; affect theory; neoliberalism; social reproduction |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong; Singapore; |
Lee, Kwan Yin. "Living and Dying without a Care in the World: Twenty-First Century Sinophone Cinema’s Affective Attunement to the Growing Deficit Yet Enduring Feminization of Care." PhD diss., University of Oregon, 2024. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/60294739-4486-4340-a90b-3fd084ce9552 |
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/60294739-4486-4340-a90b-3fd084ce9552 |
| 233 |
Sinophone Travels: Transnationalism and Diaspora |
Shen, Peter T.W. |
Harvard University |
2010.0 |
This dissertation critically reexamines Sinophone literature by tracing its historical evolution across genres and geographies, challenging dominant nation-state literary frameworks. Shen analyzes fiction, poetry, and theory by diasporic Chinese writers to propose a new model of reading transnational Chinese texts beyond ethnic or national labels. |
Dissertations |
English |
literature |
transnationalism ; identity formation |
North America |
United States |
Shen, Peter T. W. "Sinophone Travels: Transnationalism and Diaspora." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2010. Proquest (3415358). |
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| 234 |
In Search of Self-Narratives: (Re)Imagining Intimacy and Diasporic Identities in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet and Alice Wu's Saving Face |
Gong, Yuting |
Duke University Press |
2024.0 |
Gong’s thesis examines diasporic identity formation, gender, and intimacy in The Wedding Banquet and Saving Face, focusing on how Asian American characters navigate familial and cultural expectations. She argues that intimacy becomes a contested space where characters mediate alienation, guilt, and liberation. Through nuanced portrayals of queer and intergenerational relationships, Gong highlights the tensions between filial duty and individual autonomy, offering a layered reading of Chinese American identity. The project contributes to scholarship on gender, diaspora, and affect in Sinophone and Asian American cinemas. |
Theses |
English |
cinema |
identities |
North America |
United States |
Gong, Yuting. "In Search of Self-Narratives: (Re) Imagining Intimacy and Diasporic Identities in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet and Alice Wu's Saving Face." Master's thesis, Duke University, 2024. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/items/6bf1781f-ebe7-41f9-a318-af56c861696d. |
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| 235 |
Sinophone Cold War Humanisms: Cultural Contestations in Philosophy, Literature, and Cinema |
Lu, Faye Qiyu |
University of California, Los Angeles |
2024.0 |
Lu proposes a new framework—Sinophone Cold War humanisms—to analyze philosophical, literary, and cinematic texts from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. Moving beyond Cold War and postcolonial binaries, the study explores how these works engage both global humanist discourses and regional authoritarian structures. It highlights tensions between transcultural resistance and complicity in Han cultural nationalism, offering a reinterpretation of genres often dismissed as propaganda or escapism. Reframing cultural production as humanist praxis, the dissertation positions Sinophone texts within a broader global matrix of Cold War cultural contestation and decolonial thought. |
Dissertations |
English |
history |
humanism; nationalism; cold war; literature |
East Asia |
China; Taiwan; Hong Kong |
Lu, Faye Qiyu. "Sinophone Cold War Humanisms: Cultural Contestations in Philosophy, Literature, and Cinema." PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2024. ProQuest (31633556). |
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| 236 |
Translingual, Transgressive, Transnational: Queer Lala Feminism in the Sinophone World |
Dian, Dian |
Emory University |
2023.0 |
Dian examines the rise of queer lala feminism in the Sinophone world, tracing its development through linguistic, activist, and media practices. Using archival, ethnographic, and textual methods, the dissertation analyzes how movements like Queer Lala Times and the Chinese Lala Alliance challenged mainstream gender-sexuality narratives and state power. Positioned within transnational feminist and queer discourse, the study highlights the role of lala activism in resisting Chinese hegemony, theorizing alternative solidarities, and shaping Sinophone queer feminist praxis. |
Dissertations |
English |
anthropology |
LGBTQ; feminism; transnational activism; lesbian (lala) |
general |
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Dian, Dian. "Translingual, Transgressive, Transnational: Queer Lala Feminism in the Sinophone World." PhD diss., Emory University, 2023. ProQuest (31105989). |
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The Experimental Aesthetics of Global Sinophone Theatre: The Present, the Absent, and the Avant-Garde |
Chu, Po-Hsien |
University of Maryland, College Park |
2021.0 |
Chu examines the global circulation of Sinophone theatre through the experimental works of Gao Xingjian, Edward Lam, and Wu Hsing-kuo. Challenging assumptions about Chinese theatre as ethnic or traditional, the study emphasizes embodied performance over textual authority. By analyzing avant-garde stagings of alternative Chinese heritages, Chu argues that theatrical aesthetics can destabilize essentialist understandings of “Chineseness” and expand the discourse of Sinophone cultural identity. The project bridges Chinese studies, globalization, and performance theory, highlighting the political and cultural stakes of staging identity beyond mainland China. |
Dissertations |
English |
theater |
aesthetics; embodied knowledge; politics in theater |
Cross-region |
France; Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Chu, Po-Hsien. "The Experimental Aesthetics of Global Sinophone Theatre: The Present, the Absent, and the Avant-Garde." PhD diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2021. ProQuest (28713146). |
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| 238 |
Literatures of the Two Cities: A Study on Post-war Hong Kong and Singapore Sinophone Fictions |
Seah, Cheng Ta |
Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) |
2017.0 |
This dissertation offers a comparative study of Sinophone fiction in postwar Hong Kong and Singapore, exploring how literature reflects cultural identity, language politics, and diasporic memory. Analyzing works by writers such as Liu Yichang, Yeng Pway Ngon, Xi Xi, and Dung Kai-cheung, Seah examines how themes of intellectual marginality, gender roles, and historical consciousness intersect with local contexts. The study argues that Sinophone literature in both cities negotiates knowledge and cultural forms through divergent yet entangled narratives of modernity, displacement, and identity. |
Dissertations |
English |
literature |
cities; cultural identity; modernity; marginality; place based memory |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong; Singapore; |
Seah, Cheng Ta. "Literatures of the Two Cities: A Study on Post-war Hong Kong and Singapore Sinophone Fictions." PhD diss., Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017. https://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1839170. |
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| 239 |
Chineseness in Chile: Shifting Representations during the Twenty-First Century |
Montt Strabucchi, María; Chan, Carol; Rios, María Elvira |
Palgrave Macmillan |
2022.0 |
This interdisciplinary monograph investigates how “Chineseness” has been represented, perceived, and politicized in Chile over the 21st century. Drawing on historical analysis, media discourse, and sociocultural critique, the authors demonstrate how China and Chinese people have been imagined as the cultural and racial "Other" in the Chilean national narrative. They argue that this "Othering" serves as a symbolic resource in positioning Chile within a globalized, Western-oriented identity framework. The work critiques persistent stereotypes and calls for a postmigrant approach that reconsiders identity beyond binary notions of East/West or native/foreigner. |
Monographs |
English |
history |
diaspora ; assimilation; identity construction; media representation |
South America |
Chile |
Montt Strabucchi, María, Carol Chan, and María Elvira Ríos. Chineseness in Chile: Shifting Representations during the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83966-6 |
| 240 |
Sinophone Studies across Disciplines: A Reader |
Chiang, Howard; Shih, Shu-mei |
Columbia University Press |
2024.0 |
Sinophone studies, the exploration of Sinitic-language cultures worldwide, has grown into a deeply interdisciplinary field spanning literature, film, history, anthropology, linguistics, and more. Engaging with postcolonial, settler-colonial, migration, ethnic, queer, and area studies, it offers new insights into power, identity, oppression, and resistance. This collection showcases innovative scholarship from both senior and emerging voices, emphasizing the field’s relevance to understanding minoritized and racialized communities across global contexts. It also reflects on how China’s global rise reshapes Sinophone identities and notions of Chineseness. The work exemplifies the field’s evolution, intellectual diversity, and ability to transcend traditional academic boundaries. |
Readers |
English |
multi-disciplines |
diaspora; ethnicity; identity |
general |
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Chiang, Howard, and Shu-mei Shih, eds. Sinophone Studies across Disciplines: A Reader. Columbia University Press, 2024. |
Publisher's page: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/sinophone-studies-across-disciplines/9780231208635/ |
| 241 |
現實與詩意：馬華文學的欲望 |
Ng, Kim Chew |
麥田出版 |
2022.0 |
This volume brings together sixteen essays that reflect the author’s decades of critical engagement with Malaysian Chinese literature. It reexamines the paradoxes and distinctive qualities of Mahua literature as a form of ‘national literature,’ explores the search for the ‘poetic’ across genres and periods of Mahua writing, and offers critical reflections on Sinophone theory and its implications for understanding Malaysian Chinese literary production. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
nationalism; diaspora; modernity; realism; poetic |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Ng, Kim Chew 黃錦樹. Xian shi yu shi yi: Ma Hua wen xue de yu wang 現實與詩意 : 馬華文學的欲望. Rye Field Publishing 麥田出版, 2022. |
https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010938705?srsltid=AfmBOorsRtqGT4mjKQECsaZvWn5thUFQz4Nz5XA01_mArfUY7bpXrd7P |
| 242 |
馬華文學與中國性 |
Ng, Kim Chew |
麥田出版 |
2012.0 |
This collection presents twenty-six essays analyzing the complex relationship between Mahua literature and Chinese cultural identity. The volume addresses challenges in Mahua realism, examines cultural nostalgia and diasporic experiences among new and post-migration writers, and provides critical perspectives on Mahua literary history, anthology construction, and literary practice. |
Monographs |
Chinese |
literature |
nationalism; Chineseness; realism |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Ng, Kim Chew 黃錦樹. Ma Hua wen xue yu Zhongguo xing 馬華文學與中國性. Rye Field Publishing 麥田出版, 2012. |
https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010556993?srsltid=AfmBOopaMTFtfet_kpQ6eWePD62-rwKAEBs6uNIYHaRb5NUA1t-4lqpD |
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海外星空：华文创作三地域 |
Ruan, Wenling |
上海三聯書店 |
2015.0 |
This article surveys the evolution from Overseas Chinese studies to Chinese Diaspora studies and finally to Sinophone studies, examining the political and cultural implications of these disciplines. It problematizes Chinacentric discourses on Chineseness and the cultural nostalgia for China that shaped earlier studies. The article deconstructs essentialist notions of Chineseness to emphasize the significance of local realities and lived experiences of Sinophone communities. It argues that Sinophone studies offers new frameworks where Chinese Diaspora studies reaches its limits, proposing the concept of “Translational Sinophone Identity” to recognize identities as dynamic, reconstructed, and translatable, while deimperializing essentialist assumptions about Chineseness. |
Edited Volumes |
Chinese |
literature |
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Cross-region |
Taiwan; Hong Kong; Macau; Southeast Asia; North America |
海外星空 : 华文创作三地域 |
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| 11b |
Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader |
Chiang, Howard |
Cambria Press |
2021.0 |
Taiwan, a pioneer in LGBTQ+ rights in Asia, has also become a vibrant center for queer literature. Following the end of martial law in 1987, queer authors emerged as influential voices, gaining national recognition throughout the 1990s. This anthology offers a comprehensive look at Taiwan’s queer literary history, featuring short stories by Taiwanese writers from 1975 to 2020—many translated into English for the first time. Addressing themes such as bisexuality, AIDS, diaspora, indigeneity, transgender identity, and surrogacy, the collection captures the rich diversity of gender and sexual expression that has shaped Taiwan’s cultural landscape over the past fifty years. |
Readers |
English |
literature |
LGBTQ |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Chiang, Howard, ed. Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader. Cambria Press, 2021 |
Publisher's page: https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=806 |
| 12b |
Memorandum: A Sinophone Singaporean Short Story Reader |
Quah, Sy Ren; Xu, Weixian |
Ethos Books |
2020.0 |
Featuring newly translated Chinese short stories, this anthology traces seven decades of Sinophone Singaporean literature. It brings to life a diverse cast of characters—bargirls, student activists, trishaw men, tea merchants—offering Anglophone readers rare insight into a literary world previously overlooked. Accompanied by critical essays, the collection reveals the cultural richness of Singapore’s Chinese community and its deep interconnections with other cultures within the nation. Together, the stories and analyses illuminate the complexities of identity, language, and belonging in Singapore’s multilingual, multicultural society. |
Readers |
English |
literature |
short stories |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Quah, Sy Ren, and Siam Wai Hee, eds. Memorandum: A Sinophone Singaporean Short Story Reader. Ethos Books, 2020. |
Publisher's page: https://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/products/memorandum |
| 13b |
The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan |
Chang, Sung-shen; Yeh, Michelle; Fan, Mingru |
Columbia University Press |
2014.0 |
This sourcebook compiles over 160 key documents tracing the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern era to the twenty-first century. Materials include literary debates, essays, letters, interviews, manifestos, journal prefaces, government policies, and transcripts of speeches and conferences. Together, they highlight Taiwan’s responses to modernization, colonialism, Cold War dynamics, gender and environmental issues, indigenous movements, and the digital revolution. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
colonization; modernity; cold war; identity; indigeneity |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Chang, Sung-sheng, Michelle Yeh, and Mingru Fan, eds. The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan. Columbia University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7312/chan16576. |
Publisher's page: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-columbia-sourcebook-of-literary-taiwan/9780231537544/ |
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Chinese newspapers in Chợ Lớn, 1930-1975 |
Mok, Mei Feng |
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2017.0 |
This article surveys the development of Chinese-language newspapers in Chợ Lớn 堤岸 from 1930 to 1975, highlighting the city’s stature as a major Sinophone press hub—second only to Taiwan and Hong Kong. It traces the proliferation of dailies before and during the Republic of Vietnam era (1955–75), reviews their content—editorials, serialized novels, advertisements—and explores how these periodicals fostered transnational Sinophone networks amid censorship and Cold War politics. The study underscores their value for Sinophone, diaspora, and Vietnamese historical scholarship, noting that many are accessible via microfilm collections in institutions across Singapore, Australia, the U.S., and China. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
diaspora |
Southeast Asia |
Vietnam |
Mok, Mei Feng. "Chinese Newspapers in Chợ Lớn, 1930-1975." Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 32, no.3 (2017): 766-82. |
https://viet-studies.com/kinhte/ChineseNewspaper.pdf |
| 15b |
Contemporary Taiwanese Women Writers: An Anthology |
Stalling, Jonathan; Lin, Daiman; Leung, Yan-wing |
Cambria Press |
2018.0 |
This anthology presents contemporary Taiwanese women’s writing in English translation, foregrounding Taiwan’s layered cultural history shaped by Indigenous communities, successive migrations, and colonial encounters. Featuring writers such as Hsia Yu, Ye Mimi, Li Ang, and Chu T’ien-wen, the collection highlights formally diverse and place-conscious works that engage questions of gender, sexuality, politics, family, and social change. The stories range from intimate explorations of adolescence, marriage, and motherhood to reflections on class, illness, and national history, offering heterogeneous narrative styles and perspectives. Collectively, the volume provides a gendered lens on modern Taiwan while showcasing the breadth and vitality of Sinophone literary production curated by the Taipei Chinese PEN. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
gender; sexuality; family; politics |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Stalling, Jonathan, Daiman Lin, and Yan-wing Leung, eds. Contemporary Taiwanese Women Writers: An Anthology. Cambria Press, 2018. |
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Kuo Pao Kun's Zheng He Legend and Multicultural Encounters in Singapore |
Leng, Rachel |
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2016.0 |
This article examines how Singaporean playwright Kuo Pao Kun reimagines the figure of Zheng He in his 1995 play Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral as a vehicle for exploring contemporary multiculturalism and diasporic identity. While Zheng He is often celebrated as a symbol of Chinese exploration and maritime prowess, Kuo presents him as a metaphor for hybrid subjectivity and the contradictions of multicultural nationalism in Singapore. Leng argues that beneath the play’s apparent celebration of ethnic harmony lies a more personal and critical commentary on the bureaucratic rigidity of the Singaporean state. The play thus emerges as a complex reflection on both national ideology and the intimate dislocations of diasporic and Sinophone existence. |
Journal Articles |
English |
theater |
multiculturalism; Zheng, He; diasporic memory |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Leng, Rachel. “Kuo Pao Kun’s Zheng He Legend and Multicultural Encounters in Singapore.” Southeast Asian Studies 5, no. 2 (2016): 287–303. |
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Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader |
Shih, Shu-mei; Tsai, Chien-hsin; Bernards, Brian |
Columbia University Press |
2013.0 |
This anthology defines Sinophone studies as the examination of Sinitic-language cultures shaped by colonial and postcolonial contexts. Featuring influential voices like Rey Chow, Ha Jin, and Ien Ang, it explores debates around Chineseness and introduces key texts from Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and American Sinophone literatures. By situating these cultures at the intersections of multiple empires, the collection highlights the transformative impact of multiculturalism and multilingualism. It emphasizes place-based cultural practices and challenges the diasporic framework by focusing on historical contexts outside "China proper," offering a nuanced, decentralized understanding of Sinophone identities. |
Readers |
English |
language |
multilingualism; multiculturalism |
General |
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Shih, Shu-mei, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards, eds. Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. Columbia University Press, 2013. |
Publisher's page: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/sinophone-studies/9780231157513/ |
| 206b |
Dark Borneo: Yong-Ping Li's Reworkings of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim in The End of the River |
Wei, Tung-An |
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2018.0 |
This article explores how Li Yong-Ping’s The End of the River rewrites Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim to expose sexual violence against Indigenous women in colonial Borneo. Wei argues that Li subverts colonial tropes—such as the rhetoric of civilization and the trope of white saviors—by depicting missionaries and officials as perpetrators. Through layered storytelling and narrative parallels with Conrad, Li critiques imperial masculinity while reclaiming Indigenous female voices. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
women |
Southeast Asia |
Borneo |
Wei, Tung-an. “Dark Borneo: Yong-Ping Li’s Reworkings of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim in The End of the River.” Conradiana 50, no. 3 (2018): 259–276. |
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The Verse of Shao Xunmei: Heaven and May (1927) and Twenty-Five Poems (1936) |
Shao, Xunmei |
Homa & Sekey Books |
2016.0 |
This volume presents English translations of two important poetry collections by Shao Xunmei—Heaven and May (1927) and Twenty-Five Poems (1936)—accompanied by the poet’s own English translations of four classical Chinese poems. The book includes a concise introduction and translator’s notes that contextualize Shao’s literary experimentation during the Republican era. His early poems feature unconventional verse forms, short repetitive lines, and modernist devices influenced by European writers, while later works shift toward more structured lyricism. The collection reflects Shao’s decadent aesthetic, cosmopolitan sensibilities, and evolving poetic voice shaped by travels in Europe and life in Shanghai. This bilingual edition offers rare access to a once-influential modern poet whose work has been overshadowed in contemporary scholarship. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
translation; poetry; modernism |
East Asia |
China |
Shao, Xunmei. The Verse of Shao Xunmei : Heaven and May (1927) and Twenty-Five Poems (1936). Translated by Jicheng Sun and Hal Swindall. Homa & Sekey Books, 2016. |
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馬華文學與文化讀本 = Sinophone Malaysian literature : A history through literacy and cultural texts |
Tee, Kim Tong; Ng, Kim Chew; Ko, Chia-Cian |
時報文化出版企業股份有限公司 |
2022.0 |
This comprehensive reader offers an expansive introduction to Sinophone Malaysian literature and cultural history from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Organized into twelve thematic units, it traces key historical trajectories, political contexts, aesthetic movements, and regional specificities shaping Chinese-language writing in Malaysia and Singapore. The volume features contributions from sixty-six scholars and writers, presenting concise essays on major authors, literary trends, diasporic experiences, multilingual environments, Cold War geopolitics, Bornean writing, and cross-media cultural expressions. Designed for students and general readers, it provides a structured, accessible pathway into the development of Mahua literature while illustrating the field’s multilingual, multicultural, and transregional complexity. |
Readers |
Chinese |
literature |
diaspora; cultural geography |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
張錦忠、黃錦樹、高嘉謙 主編。《馬華文學與文化讀本》= Sinophone Malaysian literature : A history through literacy and cultural texts。臺北： 時報出版，2022。 |
amazon: https://www.amazon.com/%E9%A6%AC%E8%8F%AF%E6%96%87%E5%AD%B8%E8%88%87%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E8%AE%80%E6%9C%AC-Sinophone-Malaysian-Literature-Traditional-ebook/dp/B0BJDV6W99#:~:text=Amazon.com:%20%E9%A6%AC%E8%8F%AF%E6%96%87%E5%AD%B8%E8%88%87%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E8%AE%80%E6%9C%AC:%20Sinophone%20Malaysian%20Literature:%20A%20History,Texts%20(Traditional%20Chinese%20Edition)%20eBook%20:%20%E5%BC%B5%E9%8C%A6%E5%BF%A0%2C |
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A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai |
Nochimson, Martha |
Wiley Blackwell |
2016.0 |
This volume contains 26 essays addressing numerous topics including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong's portrayal of violence. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
cinema |
Wong Kar-wai |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Nochimson, Martha, ed. A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai. John Wiley & Sons, 2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118425589. |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118425589 |
| 4b |
Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader |
Wu, Chia-rong; Fan, Mingru |
Springer |
2023.0 |
This anthology brings together original essays that deepen and broaden research on Taiwan literature. Including contributions from both established and emerging writers, it addresses current literary trends while emphasizing Taiwan’s cultural diversity and translocal consciousness. The collection explores how Taiwan literature engages with identities and narratives that cross regional and national borders, situating the island’s literary production within the wider frameworks of Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, and Asian studies. It offers valuable insights into the shifting landscape of literary Taiwan in a global context. |
Readers |
English |
literature |
translocal consciousness; cultural diversity |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Wu, Chia-rong, and Mingru Fan, eds. Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader. Springer, 2023. |
Publisher's page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-8380-1 |
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華夷風 : 華語語系文學讀本 = Sinophone / Xenophone : contemporary sinophone literature reader |
Wang, David Der-wei; Ko, Chia-Cian; Woo, Kam Loon |
聯經出版事業股份有限公司 |
2016.0 |
This is a wide-ranging anthology introducing major currents in Sinophone literature across the Chinese-language world. Divided into four parts, the volume foregrounds “landscape and place,” attending to geography, environment, and the local sensibilities that shape Chinese-language writing beyond China’s borders. Through selected texts and critical essays, the book demonstrates how writers negotiate identity, memory, and belonging in diverse communities across regions — capturing transformations of language, culture, and literary aesthetics. For students and researchers it offers a panoramic lens on the Sinophone literary world and its shifting geographies, cultural imaginations, and aesthetic innovations. |
Readers |
Chinese |
literature |
place and landscape; identity; cultural geography |
General |
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王德威、高嘉謙、胡金倫 主編。《華夷風：華語語系文學讀本》。臺北：聯經出版公司，2021。 |
publisher's page: https://www.linkingbooks.com.tw/books/184427 |
| 6b |
Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007 |
Joubin, Alexa Alice |
Springer International Publishing |
2022.0 |
This anthology collects seven influential Sinophone theatrical adaptations of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear produced between 1987 and 2007 across Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Edited by Alexa Alice Joubin, the volume presents first-ever English translations of key reinterpretations staged in genres ranging from Chinese opera and political theatre to avant-garde and experimental performance. By pairing contrasting adaptations of each tragedy, the book highlights how Sinophone artists mobilize Shakespeare to explore local histories, identity politics, and aesthetic innovation. It offers a rich resource for understanding how Chinese-language communities appropriate and transform Western classics, making it an essential reference for Sinophone theatre studies, adaptation studies, and cross-cultural performance research. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
adaptation; translation; cross-cultural performance |
East Asia |
China; Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Joubin, Alexa Alice, ed. Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987–2007. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-92993-0 |
| 8b |
The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora |
Hui, Yu; Stock, Jonathan P. J |
Oxford University Press |
2023.0 |
This reference volume offers a comprehensive overview of Chinese music studies for the twenty-first century. Written by scholars from anglophone, sinophone, and diasporic contexts, it combines detailed case studies with theoretical perspectives of global relevance. Part I examines historical legacies, including archaeology, ancient theory, kunqu opera, Shijing songs, Hong Kong’s music history, and Chinese modernity. Part II focuses on evolving practices across instrumental and vocal traditions such as folk song, guqin, Taiwanese theater, Chinese orchestra, and diaspora pipa performance. Part III addresses popular music, identity, mediation, and liveness, concluding with a systematization of the field. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
music |
history; diaspora |
East Asia |
China; Taiwan; Hong Kong; Malaysia |
Hui, Yu, and Jonathan P. J. Stock, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora. Oxford University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190661960.001.0001. |
Publisher's page: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-music-in-china-and-the-chinese-diaspora-9780190661960?cc=us&lang=en& |
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南洋讀本 : 文學·海洋·島嶼 = A Nanyang reader : literature, sea and islands |
Ko, Chia-Cian; Wang, David Der-wei |
麥田出版 : 城邦文化事業股份有限公司 |
2022.0 |
Because the island of Taiwan spent the first half of the century as a colony of Japan and the second half in an umbilical relationship to China, its literature challenges basic assumptions about what constitutes a “national literature.” Several contributors directly address the methodological and epistemological issues involved in writing about “Taiwan literature.” Other contributors investigate the cultural and political grounds from which specific genres and literary movements emerged. Still others explore themes of history and memory in Taiwan literature and tropes of space and geography, looking at representations of boundaries as well as the boundary-crossing global flows of commodities and capital. Like Taiwan’s history, modern Taiwan literature is rife with conflicting legacies and impulses. Writing Taiwan reveals a sense of its richness and diversity to English-language readers. |
Readers |
Chinese |
literature |
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East Asia |
Taiwan |
王德威, 高嘉謙編. 《南洋讀本 : 文學·海洋·島嶼 》= A Nanyang Reader : Literature, Sea and Islands. 臺北: 麥田出版 : 城邦文化事業股份有限公司，2022. |
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Singapore-Malaysia Collection |
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a curated special collection documenting the social, political, literary, and cultural history of Singapore and Malaysia. Its holdings include rare books, newspapers, periodicals, government publications, maps, and ephemera that trace regional developments from the colonial period to the present. The collection is an important resource for researchers studying Nanyang Chinese communities, Sinophone literature, multilingual print culture, and Southeast Asian Chinese diasporic histories. Materials are primarily in English, Chinese, and Malay, offering valuable insight into the multilingual environments that shaped Chinese-language writing and cultural production in the region. Online collection guides and digitized resources provide partial remote access. |
Special Collections |
English; Chinese; Japanese; Malay |
history |
diaspora; literature; cultural history |
Southeast Asia |
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Singapore-Malaysia Collection, NUS Libraries Special Collections |
https://nus.edu.sg/nuslibraries/collections/special-collections/singapore-malaysia-collection |
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The 70's Biweekly and People's Theatre: A private archive of Mok Chiu-yu Augustine and friends 70年代雙週刊及民衆戲劇：莫昭如及友人私人收藏檔案. |
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This archive compiles materials from Augustine Chiu-yu Mok and members of The 70's that document the activities of The 70's syndicate and the Asian People's Theatre. The collection includes publications, correspondence, meeting minutes, and records illuminating the political, cultural, and intellectual activism of Hong Kong's leftist youth from the late 1960s through the 1970s. It traces Mok's transition from grassroots social activism to experimental theatre, highlighting his anti-colonial, anti-nationalist, and internationalist artistic vision centered on social justice and equality. These materials provide insight into a pivotal period of Hong Kong's cultural and political history. |
Special Collections |
Chinese; English |
multi-disciplines |
private archives; anarchism; theater; activists; cultural activism |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
The 70's Biweekly and People's Theatre: A private archive of Mok Chiu-yu Augustine and friends 70年代雙週刊及民衆戲劇：莫昭如及友人私人收藏檔案. Hong Kong Baptist University Library. |
https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/mok/ |
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Shen, Yuanfang. Interview with Norman Moy in 1994. State Library of Western Australia. |
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This oral history documents the life of Norman Eric Moy, a third-generation Chinese Australian born in Geraldton, Western Australia. Moy traces his family's migration from Taishan to Tasmania in the late nineteenth century, describing his grandfather's produce businesses that served Chinese miners. He recounts his father's relocation to Geraldton and the family's fruit and vegetable delivery enterprise, while discussing the challenges of assimilation and experiences of discrimination. Moy reflects on his limited retention of Sze Yap (Seiyap) Cantonese, evolving cultural identity, career with the Public Works Department, and involvement with the Chung Wah Association. This interview served as a primary source for Shen Yuanfang's 2018 ANU dissertation, "Dragon Seed in the Antipodes: Chinese Australian Self-Representations." |
Audio |
English |
history |
migrants; Chineseness; identity |
Oceania |
Australia |
Shen, Yuanfang. Interview with Norman Moy in 1994. State Library of Western Australia. |
https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b5882148_2 |
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Letter Of Unprotected Memories |
Kuswandi, Lucky |
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2008.0 |
This short documentary reflects on the Chinese diaspora experience in Indonesia, centered on the declaration of Imlek (Chinese New Year) as a national holiday. After decades of prohibition and restricted celebration, this recognition marked a significant cultural shift for Chinese Indonesians. The director revisits childhood memories, revealing vivid stories, emotional resonances, and distinctive colors that have shaped Imlek across generations. Through personal reflection and historical context, the film explores how the holiday has become a focal point for understanding identity, belonging, and the evolving place of Chinese Indonesian communities within the nation, documenting a transformative moment in Indonesian cultural history. |
Video |
English |
history |
migrants; identity; diaspora; communities |
Southeast Asia |
Indonesia |
Kuswandi, Lucky, dir. Letter Of Unprotected Memories. 2008. |
https://www.viddsee.com/video/letter-of-unprotected-memories/gmatd?locale=en |
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Asian American Studies Collection |
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This archive is one of the largest collections dedicated to Asian American communities in the United States and holds the most extensive archival materials on Chinese American history. It supports academic research and public knowledge through manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, and other primary sources documenting Asian American life in the Bay Area and beyond. The collection includes more than one hundred unique archival holdings, such as materials from historian Him Mark Lai, the Chinese Empire Reform Association, the International Hotel struggle, and the Vincent Chin case. The archive actively documents diverse communities including Arab Americans, South Asian Americans, LGBTQ Asian Americans, and Asian American activism. |
Special Collections |
English |
multi-disciplines |
diaspora; activism; communities |
North America |
United States |
Asian American Studies Collection. Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley. |
https://eslibrary.berkeley.edu/asian-american-studies-collection |
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Chinese in Southeast Asia Collection |
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Hosted on NUS Libraries’ Digital Gems platform, this expansive digital archival collection documents over a century of social, cultural, and organizational life among Singapore’s Chinese communities. Organized into thematic sub-collections—covering general works, language, societies, education, arts, literature, history and culture, philosophy and religion, business and economics, politics, and journals—it contains digitized photographs, records, pamphlets, ephemera, genealogies, and select periodicals. These materials offer rich insight into the development of Chinese civil society, cultural practices, communal networks, and the multilingual urban environment of Singapore, making the collection a key resource for research on Sinophone and Nanyang history. |
Special Collections |
Chinese; English |
history |
diaspora |
Southeast Asia |
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Chinese in Southeast Asia Collection, NUS Libraries Special Collections |
https://digitalgems.nus.edu.sg/browse/collection/38447?q=facet,parents,equals,38447&limit=10 |
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Chinese Newspaper Collection. Historical Newspapers Collection. |
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" a comprehensive collection of more than 150 Chinese newspapers published in Southeast Asia in print and microform. There are a total of 96 titles from Singapore, 34 from Malaysia, 7 from Vietnam, 5 from Thailand, 4 from Indonesia, 3 from the Philippines, 2 from Brunei and 1 from Cambodia. Some notable titles are Lat Pau (1887-1932), the earliest Chinese newspaper in Singapore; Penang Sin Poe (1895-1941), the first Chinese newspaper in Penang; and Sin Sian Jih Pao (1959- ), Thailand’s longest running Chinese newspaper." -- homepage |
Special Collections |
Chinese; English; Malay |
multi-disciplines |
migration and diaspora; Identity and language politics |
Southeast Asia |
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Chinese Newspaper Collection. Historical Newspapers Collection. NUS Libraies Special Collections |
https://digitalgems.nus.edu.sg/browse/collection/50597?limit=10 |
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Hong Kong literature collection. |
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"Hong Kong Literature Collection aims to systematically collect and process materials on Hong Kong literature for permanent preservation, and to support the teaching and research of Hong Kong literature and promoting its development. The Collection collects all kinds of materials on or related to Hong Kong literature, regardless of language, place of publication and format. It includes monographs, journals, manuscripts, letters, photos, archival materials and artifacts." -- homepage |
Special Collections |
Chinese; English |
literature |
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East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Hong Kong literature collection. Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Library |
https://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collections/spc/theme/hklit/ |
| 243 |
Imagining Modern Poetry: Poetic Modernisms in Taiwan |
Lin, Nikky |
Springer |
2025.0 |
This book offers an in-depth examination of the development of modernist poetry in Taiwan, focusing on the periods before and after World War II and situating Taiwanese literary modernism within broader Western, Japanese, and Chinese modernist frameworks. Using a comparative and dialectical approach, each chapter introduces individual poets and their works to explore themes such as intellectualism, fūdo, pure poetry, irony, and aesthetic experimentation. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
modernism;\npoetry |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Lin, Nikky. Imagining Modern Poetry: Poetic Modernisms in Taiwan. Springer, 2025. |
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-9310-5 |
| 244 |
Identity, Multiplicity, and Resistance in Taiwanese Poetry |
Li, Wen-chi |
Routledge |
2025.0 |
This volume conceptualizes Taiwan as a multilingual, postcolonial space of Sinitic-language production shaped by displacement and transregional circulation. By decentering China as the primary frame of reference, it positions Taiwanese poetry as a critical site for theorizing Sinophone identity, plurality, and resistance.edited volume explores how Taiwanese poets negotiate identity through multiplicity, linguistic hybridity, and aesthetic resistance by examining poetry written across Taiwanese, Mandarin, and Japanese traditions. The essays challenge political hegemony, nationalist narratives, and the homogenizing notion of “Chineseness,” foregrounding poetry as a site of gendered, cultural, and linguistic resistance. Closely aligned with Sinophone studies, |
Edited volumes |
English |
literature |
identity; multiplicity; resistance; postcolonial studies; multilingualism |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Li, Wen-chi, ed. Identity, Multiplicity, and Resistance in Taiwanese Poetry. Routledge, 2025. |
https://www.routledge.com/Identity-Multiplicity-and-Resistance-in-Taiwanese-Poetry/Li/p/book/9780367761554 |
| 245 |
Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities: A Western Immigrant Perspective |
Freestone, Phil |
Cambridge University Press |
2025.0 |
This monograph analyzes how queer, male-identified, ethnically Chinese individuals in Chengdu and Taipei construct and negotiate identity through discourse and everyday communicative practices. Using a sociolinguistic and semiotic approach, it moves beyond fixed notions of “Chinese culture” or “Western ideology” to show how sexuality, language, and power are shaped through locally situated and transnational interactions. By treating Sinitic-language practices as relational and internally diverse, the study foregrounds queer subjectivities that complicate unified or normative models of Sinophone identity. |
Monographs |
English |
linguisitcs |
queer studies; sociolinguistics; discourse analysis |
East Asia |
China; Taiwan |
Freestone, Phil. Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities: A Western Immigrant Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2025. |
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/discourse-and-queer-sinophone-male-identities/E6F67E7AA9AA464B65A09E268A46B450 |
| 246 |
Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema |
Zhang, Zhen |
Routledge |
2023.0 |
Zhang examines and conceptualizes the work of contemporary women filmmakers across the Sinophone world, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and transnational sites beyond these regions. this book highlights how narrative, documentary, and experimental films since the 1980s engage with social justice, gender politics, and cultural memory. By situating these filmmakers’ work across film, dance, theater, literature, and contemporary art, the book foregrounds the transregional circulation and local specificity of Sinophone film culture, and demonstrates how women’s filmmaking reshapes understandings of gender, authorship, and world cinema through Sinophone feminist and activist practices. |
Monographs |
English |
cinema |
women filmmakers; feminist film theory; gender and media |
East Asia |
China; Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Zhang, Zhen. Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema. Routledge, 2023. |
https://www.routledge.com/Women-Filmmakers-in-Sinophone-World-Cinema/Zhang/p/book/9781041190752 |
| 247 |
Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema: Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsroman |
Riemenschnitter, Andrea; Chu, Kiu-wai; Chung, Mung Ting |
Amsterdam University Press |
2025.0 |
This open access volume examines the evolution of coming-of-age narratives in Chinese-language literature and cinema produced in China and Sinophone communities from the 1950s to the 2010s. Through twelve essays, contributors trace how the Bildungsroman is adapted, contested, and reconfigured across different historical, social, and cultural contexts. Addressing tensions between individual and society, nation and world, as well as issues of gender, class, generation, ecology, and the posthuman, the volume foregrounds the transnational and transgenerational circulation of narrative forms. From a Sinophone studies perspective, it highlights how coming-of-age narratives articulate localized experiences within broader Sinophone cultural networks, demonstrating the genre’s capacity to register plurality, mobility, and transformation across Chinese-language worlds. |
Edited volumes |
English |
literature |
cinema; Bildungsroman; transnationalism |
East Asia |
China; Hong Kong |
Riemenschnitter, Andrea, Kiu-wai Chu, and Mung Ting Chung, eds. Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema: Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsroman. Amsterdam University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.29214628\n. |
https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.29214628 |
| 248 |
Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse: Time, Space, Bodies, and Things |
Jaguscik, Justyna; Krenz, Joanna; Riemenschnitter, Andrea |
Amsterdam University Press |
2025.0 |
This edited volume examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sinophone poetry from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan through the lens of lyrical experimentation shaped by modernity and globalization. Situating poetic developments from the May Fourth era and Maoist mass culture to Misty Poetry and contemporary verse, the contributors trace how poets respond to shifting historical conditions, including technological change, environmental crisis, nationalism, and renewed Cold War divisions. The volume identifies three intersecting analytical foci—formal crossovers, multiple realities, and liquid boundaries—to illuminate how Sinophone poets negotiate time, space, embodiment, and materiality. |
Edited volumes |
English |
literature |
poetry; modernism; modernity; globalization |
East Asia |
China; Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Jaguscik, Justyna, Joanna Krenz, and Andrea Riemenschnitter, eds. Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse: Time, Space, Bodies, and Things. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025. |
https://www.routledge.com/Lyrical-Experiments-in-Sinophone-Verse-Time-Space-Bodies-and-Things/Jaguscik-Krenz-Riemenschnitter/p/book/9789048559978 |
| 249 |
Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Ghost Narratives and the Contouring of Invisible Realms |
Chao, Di-kai |
Routledge |
2025.0 |
This monograph examines contemporary Chinese-language ghost narratives from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Malaysia to theorize Sinophone literature as a field shaped by liminality, locality, and epistemic contestation. Chao argues that ghost narratives provide a critical lens through which writers negotiate modernity, cultural memory, and the boundaries of the visible and invisible, challenging linear and essentialist notions of “Chineseness.” Notably, it advances Sinophone theory by advocating an expanded scope that includes mainland China alongside diasporic contexts, positioning liminality as a key analytic for understanding the diversity and fluidity of Sinophone literary formations. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
fiction; ghost narratives; liminality; Chineseness; transnational literature; cultural memory; postcolonial studies |
Cross-region |
China; Hong Kong; Malaysia; Taiwan |
Chao, Di-kai. Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Ghost Narratives and the Contouring of Invisible Realms. Routledge, 2025. |
https://www.routledge.com/Exploring-Sinophone-Liminality-in-Contemporary-Chinese-Fiction-Ghost-Narratives-and-the-Contouring-of-Invisible-Realms/Chao/p/book/9781032792682 |
| 250 |
Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone |
Wong, Alvin K. |
Duke University Press |
2025.0 |
This monograph offers a transdisciplinary analysis of queer cultural formations in Hong Kong across literature, cinema, visual culture, urban space, and civil society. Advancing the concept of “unruly comparison,” Wong situates Hong Kong as a critical site for rethinking both queer theory and Sinophone studies, challenging the Eurocentrism of global queer theory and the China-centrism of area studies. By tracing queer expressions across temporal, spatial, and transnational scales, the book demonstrates how Hong Kong’s Sinophone condition illuminates broader questions of modernity, global capitalism, and “Chineseness.” The study is a major contribution to Sinophone scholarship, positioning queerness as a key analytical lens for understanding cultural plurality, political contestation, and comparative method within the Sinophone world. |
Monographs |
English |
sociology |
homosexuality; queer theory; Chineseness; sexuality; urban culture; visual culture |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wong, Alvin K. Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone. Duke University Press, 2025. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478060888 |
| 251 |
Constructing Sinophone Childhoods through Participatory Children's Theatre in Hong Kong |
Tam, Po-chi |
Bloomsbury Publishing |
2025.0 |
This chapter examines how Sinophone childhoods are constructed through participatory children’s theatre in Hong Kong, a postcolonial Cantonese-speaking society shaped by British colonialism, Chinese nationalization, and global cultural flows. Treating childhood as a socially and culturally constructed category, Tam uses a case study of Siu Tam Zi: An Adventure of the Deer to challenge binary and stereotypical understandings of “Chinese” versus “Western” childhoods. Drawing on textual analysis, interviews, and observation, the chapter shows how participatory theatre creates imaginative spaces where children exercise agency and negotiate hybrid identities. |
Book Chapters |
English |
theater |
participatory theatre;postcolonial identity; child agency; hybridity |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Tam, Po-chi. “Constructing Sinophone Childhoods through Participatory Children’s Theatre in Hong Kong.” In Applied Theatre: Participation, edited by T. Afolabi. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. |
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Elephant Herd |
Zhang, Guixing |
Columbia University Press |
2025.0 |
The novel is set in Sarawak, Malaysia, and engages with mid-20th-century Communist insurgency, ethnic relations, and Indigenous–Chinese–Malay interactions. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
ethnic relations |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Zhang, Guixing. Elephant Herd. Translated by Carlos Rojas. Columbia University Press, 2025. |
https://jeff.mmvns.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=201806394 |
| 253 |
Queer Literature in the Sinosphere |
Bao, Hongwei; Ma, Yahia Zhengtang |
Bloomsbury Academic |
2025.0 |
It offers a comprehensive English-language survey of LGBTQ+-themed literature across the Chinese-speaking world, spanning classical homoerotic writings, modern literary works, and contemporary popular genres such as boys’ love fan fiction. Bringing together scholarship on texts from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the global Chinese diaspora, the volume foregrounds the historical depth and geographic breadth of queer literary production in Sinitic languages. It decenters a single national or cultural frame and emphasizes the transregional circulation, local inflection, and political contingency of queer expression. It positions queer literature as a crucial site for examining Sinophone cultural diversity, identity formation, and the negotiation of sexuality within shifting linguistic and sociopolitical contexts. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
LGBTQ; sexuality; diaspora; cultural politics |
General |
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Bao, Hongwei, and Yahia Zhengtang Ma, eds. Queer Literature in the Sinosphere. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/queer-literature-in-the-sinosphere-9781350415331/ |
| 254 |
A Handbook of Sinitic Languages, Dialects, and Non-Standard Mandarin |
Kubler, Cornelius C.; Lau, Clement Chu Sing |
Cambria Press |
2025.0 |
Combining Chinese dialectology with sociolinguistic analysis, the authors provides a systematic and accessible overview of major Sinitic languages and dialects, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Shanghainese, and multiple forms of non-standard Mandarin shaped by language contact. It also examine structural diversity, geographic distribution, and social usage across Sinitic-speaking communities. It decenters standard Mandarin and foregrounding linguistic plurality as a defining feature of Sinitic-language worlds. By documenting non-standard and contact-influenced varieties of Mandarin, the book offers essential linguistic foundations for understanding Sinophone cultures as heterogeneous, dynamic, and historically contingent rather than linguistically unified. |
Monographs |
English |
language |
Chinese dialects; sociolinguistics; language contact; linguistic diversity; multilingualism |
General |
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Kübler, Cornelius C., and Clement Chu Sing Lau. A Handbook of Sinitic Languages, Dialects, and Non-Standard Mandarin. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2025. |
https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=1050 |
| 255 |
The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders |
Wu, Chia-rong; Zhan, Min-xu; Groppe, Alison; Wu, Yenna |
Taylor & Francis Group |
2025.0 |
Focusing on the concept of the “South” as a shifting cultural and geopolitical analytic, this edited volume investigates how Southern discourse reshapes the contours of Sinophone literature in a global context. Moving beyond a mainland China–centered perspective, the contributors explore texts from Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Australia to foreground themes such as transnational migration, racialization, gender politics, Indigenous consciousness, and cultural hybridity. By emphasizing mobility, border-crossing, and South–South as well as South–North connections, the volume challenges hierarchical spatial imaginaries within Chinese-language studies. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
Southern discourse; migration; cultural hybridity; race and gender |
General |
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Wu, Chia-rong, Min-xu Zhan, Alison Groppe, and Yenna Wu, eds. The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders. Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. |
https://www.routledge.com/The-Southern-Discourse-in-Sinophone-Literature-Moving-Borders/Wu-Zhan-Groppe-Wu/p/book/9781032968186 |
| 256 |
Chinese Diasporic Writers and Artists: Reimagining Identity and the Self Beyond and Without China |
Tam, Kwok-kan; Li, Lily |
Taylor & Francis Group |
2025.0 |
This edited volume brings together original essays that examine how Chinese diasporic writers and artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reimagine identity and selfhood beyond and without China. The contributors analyze literary and artistic practices shaped by migration, displacement, and transnational circulation, highlighting how diasporic subjects negotiate memory, belonging, and creative agency across diverse cultural and geopolitical contexts. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature; art |
diaspora; identity formation; transnationalism; migration; selfhood; cultural hybridity |
General |
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Tam, Kwok-kan, and Lily Li, eds. Chinese Diasporic Writers and Artists: Reimagining Identity and the Self Beyond and Without China. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. |
https://www.routledge.com/Chinese-Diasporic-Writers-and-Artists-Reimagining-Identity-and-the-Self-Beyond-and-Without-China/Tam-Li/p/book/9781041028840 |
| 257 |
跨域越渡 : 馬華文學論集 = Crossing boundaries : essays on sinophone Malaysian literature |
Tee, Kim Tong; Xu, Defa |
國立中山大學出版社 |
2025.0 |
A collection of eleven essays by Sinophone Malaysian (Mahua) scholars of different generations based in Taiwan and Malaysia. It is organized into four thematic sections: “Locality and Border-Crossing,” “Cold War, Difference, and Transregionality,” “Translation and Traversal,” and “Discourse and Praxis.” According to editor Zhang Jinzhong, the book is likely the most comprehensive essay collection to date on the translation of Mahua/Malay literature. It also addresses a wide range of topics, including literary institutions and fields, zhuzhi poetry, Cantonese ballads, regional prose, realism, literary periodicals, and the cultural Cold War. |
Edited Volumes |
Chinese |
literature |
locality; Cold War; Translation studies |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
張錦忠, 許德發, eds. 跨域越渡：馬華文學論集 [Crossing Boundaries: Essays on Sinophone Malaysian Literature]. 國立中山大學出版社, 2025. |
description and table of content in Chinese: https://ts.ntu.edu.tw/web/publications/publications_in.jsp?np_id=NP1746330769233 |
| 258 |
The Geopolitics of Queer Archives: Contested Chineseness and Queer Sinophone Affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan |
Liu, Wen; Li, Eva Cheuk-Yin |
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2025.0 |
This article examines queer archives in Hong Kong and Taiwan to theorize the geopolitics of Sinophone queer knowledge production beyond state-centered and nation-based frameworks. Focusing on “minor–minor” exchanges of queer scholarship and activism since the 1980s, Liu and Li trace how queer affiliations circulate between two Sinophone societies shaped by distinct colonial histories yet increasingly entangled through the rise of China. The authors challenge essentialist notions of Chineseness and caution against uncritical applications of postcolonial resistance narratives that risk reproducing U.S.-centric perspectives. |
Journal Articles |
English |
sociology |
LGBTQ; sexuality; Chineseness; geopolitics |
East Asia |
Hong Kong; Taiwan |
Liu, Wen, and Eva Cheuk-Yin Li. “The Geopolitics of Queer Archives: Contested Chineseness and Queer Sinophone Affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan.” Sexualities 28, no. 3 (2025): 1118–1138. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241237695. |
https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241237695 |
| 259 |
Coolie Crossings: Transnational Labor Migration and Sinophone Literature, 1900-1949 |
Hua, Tianyun |
UC Davis |
2025.0 |
This doctoral dissertation examines early twentieth-century Sinophone literature as a critical site for understanding transnational labor migration and the racialized structures of global capitalism between 1900 and 1949. Using “crossing” as a central analytical framework, Hua traces how literary texts and discourses register the uneven mobility of labor, capital, and ideas across China, Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. Drawing on understudied novels, diaries, newspapers, and archival materials, the study foregrounds subaltern perspectives on law, war, nature, and sexuality in contexts such as the Chinese Exclusion era, the Chinese Labour Corps during World War I, Southeast Asian plantation economies, and semi-colonial Shanghai. |
Dissertations |
English |
literature |
transnational labor migration; coolie labor; diaspora; racial capitalism |
General |
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Hua, Tianyun. "Coolie Crossings: Transnational Labor Migration and Sinophone Literature, 1900–1949." PhD diss., University of California, Davis, 2025. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3dp9p4h8. |
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Transnational Citizen Journalism for Resistance and Solidarity: The Case of a Sinophone Community on Instagram |
Luo, Yin; Fang, Kecheng |
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2025.0 |
This article examines transnational citizen journalism as an emergent form of counter-hegemonic media practice within a Sinophone diasporic community on Instagram. Focusing on projects active during the 2022 protests against China’s COVID-zero policy, the authors combine multimodal content analysis with interviews to show how nonprofessional, diasporic creators mobilize global platforms to circulate alternative information across borders. From a Sinophone studies perspective, the study highlights how Sinophone affiliations are formed through shared political values rather than territorial proximity, producing a “solidarity infrastructure” that connects dispersed communities and extends to other anti-authoritarian movements worldwide. The article demonstrates how digital Sinophone publics negotiate diaspora, activism, and media power under authoritarian constraints. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
journalism; transnational media; social media activism; diaspora; Instagram; |
General |
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Luo, Yin, and Kecheng Fang. “Transnational Citizen Journalism for Resistance and Solidarity: The Case of a Sinophone Community on Instagram.” The International Journal of Press/Politics 30, no. 2 (2025): 462–483. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241291812.\n. |
https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241291812 |
| 261 |
The Sinophone in the Mirror: Identity and Translingualism in Poetry Self-Translation |
Gallo, Simona |
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2025.0 |
This article examines poetic self-translation as a site of Sinophone identity formation through a close study of the bilingual work of Chris Song, a China-born poet and scholar based in Toronto. Focusing on Song’s self-translation between Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and English, Gallo analyzes how translingual poetic practice mediates the relationship between linguistic multiplicity, authorship, and selfhood. Combining close reading of Zishi zhi hua 自噬之花 / mirror me (2017) with the poet’s own reflections, the study conceptualizes self-translation as a reflexive and dialogic process rather than a secondary or derivative act. From a Sinophone studies perspective, the article foregrounds translingualism as a defining condition of contemporary Sinophone poetry, highlighting how diasporic writers negotiate layered linguistic identities beyond monolingual or nation-centered frameworks. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
poetry; identity |
General |
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Gallo, Simona. “The Sinophone in the Mirror: Identity and Translingualism in Poetry Self-Translation.” Babel 71, no. 5 (2025): 641–657. https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.24138.gal. |
https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.24138.gal |
| 262 |
Taiwan Extra and the Future of Sinophone Studies |
Chiang, Howard; Hu, Yu-ying; Po, Ronald C.; Simon, Scott; Wu, Chia-rong |
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2025.0 |
This article looks at how Taiwan studies and Sinophone studies relate to each other and where tensions between the two fields arise. It criticizes the habit of placing both fields under China-centered frameworks and argues for a different way of thinking about Taiwan. The authors introduce the idea of “Taiwan Extra,” which treats Taiwan not only as a place but as a way of understanding culture and knowledge. This approach highlights cross-border connections and cultural exchange instead of narrow national narratives. The article stresses Taiwan’s distinct cultural identity and calls for a more open and flexible understanding of Taiwan’s role in Sinophone studies and global contexts. |
Journal Articles |
English |
history |
cultural identity; transnationalism; cultural relations |
East Asia |
Taiwan |
Chiang, Howard, Yu-ying Hu, Ronald C. Po, Scott Simon, and Chia-rong Wu. “Taiwan Extra and the Future of Sinophone Studies.” International Journal of Taiwan Studies 1, no. aop (2025): 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-bja10182\n. |
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| 263 |
Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia |
Leow, Rachel |
Cambridge University Press |
2016.0 |
This monograph examines the central role of language in the making of modern Malaysia, . Through close analysis of language policy, education, lexicography, propaganda, and planningt nineteenth- and twentieth-century efforts to govern linguistic diversity in British Malaya and the postcolonial nation-state, Leow shows how attempts to discipline Malay and Chinese languages repeatedly produced failures of translation, authority, and governance. From a Sinophone studies perspective, the book is significant for its attention to Chinese-language politics beyond China, highlighting how Sinitic languages operated within colonial and postcolonial power structures in Southeast Asia. It underscores the instability of monolingual national projects and foregrounds multilingualism as a defining condition of Sinophone cultural and political life. |
Monographs |
English |
language |
language policy; multilingualism; Postcolonialism |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Leow, Rachel. Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316563007 |
| 264 |
Sinographies: Semiotics of the Sinophone |
Lee, Tong King |
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2025.0 |
This programmatic article proposes “Sinographies” as a theoretical framework for analyzing the semiotic and performative dimensions of Sinitic writing within Sinophone cultural contexts. Lee introduces the concept of the “Sinograph” as an abstract collective of Chinese characters that circulate across time, regions, and scripts in the Sinosphere. Through discussions of esoteric writing and orthographic experimentation, Lee argues that nonstandard and experimental uses of Sinitic script reveal the social semiotics of global Chinese. The article concludes by outlining a research agenda that integrates Sinograph analysis into broader Sinophone inquiry across East Asian contexts. |
Journal Articles |
English |
language |
writing; scripts; semiotics |
General |
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Lee, Tong King. “Sinographies: Semiotics of the Sinophone.” Global Chinese 11, no. 2 (2025): 295–323. https://doi.org/10.1515/glochi-2024-0003. |
https://doi.org/10.1515/glochi-2024-0003 |
| 265 |
Toward a Poetics of the Plantationocene: British Plantations and Sinophone Rubber Literature |
Hua, Tianyun |
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2025.0 |
This article examines Sinophone rubber literature produced in British Malaya in the late 1920s and early 1930s through the critical framework of the Plantationocene. Hua analyzes how literary representations of migrant laborers and transplanted rubber trees mirror one another, exposing the ecological violence, racialized labor regimes, and extractive temporalities of colonial plantation capitalism. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
migrant labor; colonial capitalism; environmental humanities |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Hua, Tianyun. “Toward a Poetics of the Plantationocene: British Plantations and Sinophone Rubber Literature.” Victorian Studies 67, no. 3 (2025): 412–423. https://doi.org/10.2979/vic.00292. |
https://doi.org/10.2979/vic.00292 |
| 266 |
Malaysian Chinese Literature: Emerging Models for Globalized Chinese Studies |
Chan, Cheow Thia |
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2025.0 |
This chapter examines Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature as a key site for rethinking modern Chinese literary studies within a globalized and Sinophone framework. Chan highlights Mahua literature’s multiscalar formation, shaped by colonial Malaya, postcolonial Malaysia, and ongoing connections with China, Taiwan, and Singapore, revealing tensions between literary space and national boundaries. He emphasizes its multiple marginalizations and its challenge to fixed definitions of “Chinese literature,” while tracing alternative origin narratives that unsettle China-centered historiographies. By situating Mahua literature within Sinophone studies and concepts such as postloyalism, the chapter foregrounds a southern poetics of productive marginality, positioning Mahua writing as a theoretical resource rather than a peripheral literary category. |
Book Chapters |
English |
literature |
literary marginality; multiscalarity; literary South; postcolonial literature |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Chan, Cheow Thia. “Malaysian Chinese Literature: Emerging Models for Globalized Chinese Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2025. Accessed January 12, 2026. |
https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-1552 |
| 267 |
Writing Virtuality: Mu Xin's Sinographic Designs Across Media and Nations |
Zhou, Muyun |
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2025.0 |
This article rethinks the concept of virtuality in Sinophone literature through a close study of the writings and media practices of Mu Xin (1927–2011). Focusing on Mu Xin’s short story “The Reflected Shadow of Columbia” and the manuscript Prison Notes, the article examines how textual bodies, national imaginaries, and experiences of exile and rootlessness are mutually constituted. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
virtuality; transmediality; diaspora; exile; media studies; |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Zhou, Muyun. “Writing Virtuality: Mu Xin’s Sinographic Designs Across Media and Nations.” Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature 3, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.22599/wcj.90. |
https://doi.org/10.22599/wcj.90 |
| 268 |
Sinophone Comics: Histories Identities Medialities |
Zemanek, Adina |
De Gruyter |
2026.0 |
This monograph examines contemporary Sinophone comics produced across Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Sinophone communities in Europe and the United States, decentering both China-centric models in Chinese studies and manga-dominated frameworks in comics studies. Zemanek analyzes how Sinophone comics engage with identity formation, local histories, and cultural politics shaped by colonial legacies, nationalism, and shifting relationships with China. The book also emphasizes the inherently transnational nature of comics, exploring cross-border circulation, cultural exchange with Japan, state support, soft power, digital platforms, and neoliberal creative economies. |
Monographs |
English |
literature |
graphic narratives; comics; transnational media; cultural identity |
General |
|
Zemanek, Adina. Sinophone Comics: Histories, Identities, Medialities. De Gruyter, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111438184 |
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111438184 |
| 269 |
Swords In/Out of the Closet: Queer Bodies and Subjectivities in Sinophone Martial Arts Cinema |
Wang, Yan |
University of Alberta |
2025.0 |
This dissertation reexamines Sinophone martial arts cinema—long viewed as hypermasculine and heteronormative—through the lens of queer theory. Focusing on Hong Kong–produced wuxia films from the 1970s to the early 1990s, Wang argues that the genre contains rich queer potential that has been overlooked due to its commercial status and lack of explicit queer authorship. Through close readings of films by Chang Cheh and Chor Yuen and a detailed analysis of Swordsman II (1992), the study shows how same-sex desire, gender fluidity, and narrative incoherence destabilize heteronormative structures. |
Dissertations |
English |
cinema |
gender and sexuality; martial arts films; wuxia |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wang, Yan. "Swords In/Out of the Closet: Queer Bodies and Subjectivities in Sinophone Martial Arts Cinema." PhD diss., University of Alberta, 2025. https://doi.org/10.7939/83544. |
https://doi.org/10.7939/83544 |
| 270 |
Seeing Others: Ethics of Ghost Narrative in Sinophone Hong Kong Literature |
Chao, Di-kai; Moratto, Riccardo |
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2024.0 |
This article examines ghost narratives in contemporary Sinophone Hong Kong literature as an ethical and aesthetic response to translocal conditions. Focusing on works by Mak Shu Kin and Tse Hiu-Hung, the authors analyze how ghosts function as figures of survival, différance, and community-building within a rapidly transforming urban environment. Drawing on Sinophone theories of translocality and magical realism, the study argues that these narratives articulate an ethical commitment to the Other while reimagining collective belonging. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
fiction; ghost narratives |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Chao, Di-kai, and Riccardo Moratto. “Seeing Others: Ethics of Ghost Narrative in Sinophone Hong Kong Literature.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 36, no. 1 (2024): 52–83. https://doi.org/10.3366/mclc.2024.0048. |
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| 271 |
Translating Sexuality: International Queer Culture in the Sinophone World |
Guo, Ting; Evans, Jonathan |
Routledge |
2026.0 |
This edited volume examines how international queer media circulates, is translated, and re-signified within Sinophone contexts, with a primary focus on Chinese-language media ecologies. Bringing together scholarship from queer translation studies, media studies, and cultural sociology, the book moves beyond textual translation to analyze reception, online subcultures, and mainstream media interactions. Through case studies of television series and films such as Heartstopper, The L Word, Carol, and Call Me by Your Name, contributors show how global queer discourses are negotiated through local linguistic, cultural, and political conditions. The volume foregrounds translation as a key mechanism through which sexuality, identity, and power are mediated across borders, highlighting the heterogeneity, contingency, and locality of queer expression within the Sinophone world. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
translation; queer culture; sexuality; media circulation |
General |
|
Guo, Ting, and Jonathan Evans, eds. Translating Sexuality: International Queer Culture in the Sinophone World. Oxford, GB: Routledge, 2026. |
https://www.routledge.com/Translating-Sexuality-International-Queer-Popular-Culture-in-the-Sinophone-World/Guo-Evans/p/book/9781041071488 |
| 272 |
Scripted Resonances: Han Écriture, Minor Literature and Vernacular Negotiation in Sinophone Asia |
Gyo, Miyahara |
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2025.0 |
This article theorizes the Han script as a dynamic semiotic infrastructure that mediates linguistic diversity and vernacular expression across Sinophone Asia. Drawing on Derrida’s critique of phonocentrism and Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of minor literature, Miyahara argues that Han écriture resists the phonographic logic of modern nation-states by preserving semiotic flexibility. Through case studies including Liām-kua, Mahua literature, and script-based visual practices in Taiwan and diasporic Chinese communities, the article shows how script enables hybrid negotiation rather than simple resistance to linguistic authority. |
Journal Articles |
English |
language |
writing; scripts; semiotics |
General |
|
Miyahara, Gyo. “Scripted Resonances: Han Écriture, Minor Literature and Vernacular Negotiation in Sinophone Asia.” Langkit: Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 14, no. 1 (2025): 1–26. https://doi.org/10.62071/jssh.v14i1.740. |
https://doi.org/10.62071/jssh.v14i1.740 |
| 273 |
The Interweaving of Chineseness, Localness, and Modernity: The Construction of Sinophone Subjectivity in Li Zishu's Worldly Land |
Zheng, Qian; Rahman, Mohamad Luthfi Abdul; Rahman, Nadiatul Shakinah Abdul; Chow, Sheat Fun |
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2025.0 |
This study examines Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature’s cultural hybridity through a narratological analysis of Li Zishu’s Worldly Land (2021). Addressing the long-noted “absence of classics” in Mahua literature, it argues that narrative form can integrate Chineseness, localness, and modernity into a cohesive sinophone subjectivity. Drawing on Gérard Genette’s model of narrative tense, mood, and voice, the study shows that Chineseness is expressed through storyteller-style focalization and direct speech, localness through repetitive narration and shifting perspectives, and modernity through free direct speech and non-linear temporality. Together, these strategies illustrate how narrative techniques articulate cultural identity within global Sinophone literature. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua); Chineseness; localness; modernity; hybridity; narrative; subjectivity; Li Zishu 黎紫書\n |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Zheng, Qian, Mohamad Luthfi Abdul Rahman, Nadiatul Shakinah Abdul Rahman, and Sheat Fun Chow. "The Interweaving of Chineseness, Localness, and Modernity: The Construction of Sinophone Subjectivity in Li Zishu's Worldly Land." Asian Social Science 21, no. 3 (2025). https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibn:assjnl:v:21:y:2025:i:3:p:14. |
https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibn:assjnl:v:21:y:2025:i:3:p:14 |
| 274 |
Malaysian Chinese Literature and Beyond: the Narrative Art of Li Zishu's Middle-Period Fiction |
Zhang, Mingying\n |
University of Hong Kong |
2025.0 |
This thesis analyzes the development of Li Zishu’s narrative techniques in her mid-career works and their implications for cultural identity and narrative authority in Malaysian Chinese literature. Using a Sinophone/Xenophone theoretical framework, it traces her shift from introspective first-person narration to second-person and polyphonic structures that engage a global readership. Close readings of The Age of Goodbyes and Land of Floating Customs show how metafiction, classical narrative traditions, and urban folklore dismantle singular cultural meanings. By employing objects and spatial metaphors, Li transforms cultural identity into an active, meaning-producing force, proposing a dialogic model of coexisting Sinophone/Xenophone subjectivities. |
Theses |
English |
literature |
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua); identity; narrative; subjectivity; Li Zishu 黎紫書 |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Zhang, Mingying. "Malaysian Chinese Literature and Beyond: the Narrative Art of Li Zishu's Middle-Period Fiction." Master's Thesis, University of Hong Kong, 2025. |
http://hdl.handle.net/10722/358275 |
| 275 |
Blue, as in ‘Melancholy’: Blue Island and Sinophone Performativity |
Berry, Chris |
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2025.0 |
This essay examines Chan Tze-woon’s Sinophone documentary Blue Island (2022) as a departure from the immediacy of post-2019 Hong Kong protest films. It argues that the film adopts a melancholic, performative mode to reflect on Hong Kong’s layered postcolonial history and the filmmaker’s active intervention. By bringing together activists from different historical moments and ideological positions, the film disrupts linear temporality and binds present struggles to unresolved pasts. This melancholic temporality sustains questions of local agency while reframing the Sinophone as part of a broader decolonial practice that entangles both British and Chinese imperial legacies. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
Performativity; extraterritoriality; decolonial; Chan Tze-woon 陳梓桓 |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Berry, Chris. “Blue, as in ‘Melancholy’: Blue Island and Sinophone Performativity.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas (June 2025): 1–14. DOI:10.1080/17508061.2025.2521977. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2025.2521977 |
| 276 |
Mother Tongues and Other Tongues: Creating and Translating Sinophone Poetry |
Gallo, Simona; Codeluppi, Martina |
Brill |
2024.0 |
This volume analyzes contemporary translingual Sinophone poetry by examining its creative processes, translational implications, and their intersections. It focuses on how self-translation and other translingual practices shape the Sinophone poetic field and how writers produce new lyrical identities through translation. The collection also addresses key questions concerning the translation of contemporary Sinophone poetry. By bringing together scholars, poets, and translators, it offers insights into current debates in Sinophone Studies while fostering dialogue with Poetry Studies, Translation Studies, and Cultural Studies. |
Edited Volumes |
English |
literature |
poetry; translation; translingual; transnational |
General |
|
Gallo, Simona, and Martina Codeluppi, eds. Mother Tongues and Other Tongues: Creating and Translating Sinophone Poetry. Brill, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004711600. |
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004711600 |
| 277 |
Re-enter the Dragon: The Making of Post-Chinese Identities in Namewee's Sinophone Music Production |
Wu, Chia-rong |
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2025.0 |
This article examines the transformation of Chinese identities in contemporary Sinophone pop music through a case study of Malaysian Chinese artist Namewee. It analyzes his departure from China Wind aesthetics toward post-Chinese identities, situating his work within cross-cultural contexts shaped by Malaysia and Taiwan. The study discusses the reconfiguration of traditional symbols such as the dragon, reviews existing scholarship through the lens of post-Chineseness, and explores identity politics in a global framework. Through close readings of Namewee’s songs and music videos, including “The People of the Dragon,” the article highlights cultural hybridity and the negotiation of Chineseness in Sinophone music. |
Journal Articles |
English |
music |
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua); Chineseness; hybridity; identity; pop music; China Wind; Namewee |
Cross-region |
Malaysia; Taiwan |
Wu, Chia-rong. "Re-enter the Dragon: The Making of Post-Chinese Identities in Namewee's Sinophone Music Production." American Journal of Chinese Studies 32, no. 1 (2025). |
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| 278 |
Representing Trans in Sinophone Films: Uncovering Local Critical Evaluations, Storytelling Performative Marriages, Promoting Trans Decoloniality, and Illustrating Transgendered Cis-Casting |
Wei, Ximin; Chew, Matthew M.; Hu, Dehao |
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2025.0 |
This study examines three Sinophone trans films from Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Taiwan to contribute to the decolonization of trans representation studies. It identifies locally grounded critical frameworks that diverge from Western-centric approaches and analyzes how the films reflect the lived experiences of trans people in Sinophone East Asia. The study also explores how these works contribute to trans decoloniality. Finally, it develops the concept of “transgendered cis-casting” to advance the theoretical debate on authenticity in popular representations of trans. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
LGBTQ; trans; decoloniality |
Cross-region |
Hong Kong; Malaysia; Taiwan |
Wei, Ximin, Matthew M. Chew, and Dehao Hu. “Representing Trans in Sinophone Films: Uncovering Local Critical Evaluations, Storytelling Performative Marriages, Promoting Trans Decoloniality, and Illustrating Transgendered Cis-Casting.” Popular Communication 23, no. 2 (2025): 105–18. doi:10.1080/15405702.2025.2485483. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2025.2485483 |
| 279 |
Toward a World of Pluriversality: Chang Kuei-hsing and His Rainforest Writings |
Tsao, Myron Chun-Chieh |
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2025.0 |
This article examines the worldmaking force of Chang Kuei-hsing’s rainforest writings, which depict Borneo’s ecology, hidden histories, and the nonhuman. Drawing on Walter Mignolo’s concept of pluriversality, it analyzes how these works invite a rethinking of the internal dynamics of both the Sinosphere and world literature. By tracing Chang’s migratory trajectory from Borneo to Taiwan, the study argues that his writing exemplifies the transformation of Chinese cultural traditions beyond Mainland China. It further contends that Chang’s rainforest narratives challenge Western-centric frameworks of world literature by demonstrating alternative sites where history and literature can thrive. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
pluriversality; Chang Kuei-hsing (Zhang Guixing) 張貴興 |
Southeast Asia |
Borneo |
Tsao, Myron Chun-Chieh. "Toward a World of Pluriversality: Chang Kuei-hsing and His Rainforest Writings." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 51, no. 1 (2025): 197-225. |
http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/issues/2025-1/9-Tsao.pdf |
| 280 |
Sinophone Classicism in Hong Kong Cantopop: Four Examples of Songs |
Ng, William Chin-fung |
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2025.0 |
This study analyzes four Cantopop songs to argue that the term “China Wind” is culturally hegemonic and inadequate for describing Hong Kong Cantonese pop music that engages with Chinese traditions and values. It shows that songs from different periods incorporate classicist elements rooted in local traditions or display only limited influence from Chinese culture. The essay proposes “Sinophone classicism” as a more precise framework for understanding such musical practices, particularly if China Wind is also framed as classicist. It further demonstrates that classicist expressions in Cantopop can be traced back to the 1980s. |
Journal Articles |
English |
music |
Cantopop; China Wind; classicism; localness |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Ng, William Chin-fung. "Sinophone Classicism in Hong Kong Cantopop: Four Examples of Songs." Asian Music 56, no. 1 (2025): 38-75. DOI:10.1353/amu.00003. |
https://doi.org/10.1353/amu.00003 |
| 281 |
Queering the Ocean: Li Zishu’s The Island of the Lost Plane |
Zou, Aling |
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2025.0 |
This article examines Li Zishu’s little-studied novella The Island of the Lost Plane, focusing on queer intimacy between two immigrant women, one Sinophone Malaysian and the other Jewish Israeli, in Europe. Through analysis of their relationship, the MH370 accident, and the ocean as an ecological trope, the study explores themes of healing, violence, and transnationalism. Drawing on queer Sinophone studies alongside queer ecology and world-making, it shows how nationalism and patriarchy marginalize both women and shape their experiences of discrimination. The article argues that an imagined oceanic space enables alternative forms of intimacy and healing, envisioning nonhierarchical, non-heteronormative worlds that depart from dominant Sinophone Malaysian literary themes. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua); transnationalism; LGBTQ; nationalism; identity; queer; migrants |
Europe |
U.K.; Germany |
Zou, Aling. “Queering the Ocean: Li Zishu’s The Island of the Lost Plane.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 29, no. 3 (2025): 270–95. DOI:10.1080/10894160.2025.2461902. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2025.2461902 |
| 282 |
Cultural Production and Representations of Identity: Questioning Chineseness in the Sino-Italian Context |
Pedone, Valentina |
Brill |
2025.0 |
This chapter examines cultural production as a key site of identity construction among people of Chinese heritage in Europe, focusing on the Italian context. It addresses the relative lack of systematic analysis of Chinese European creative expression by reviewing debates on Chineseness in overseas communities and mapping cultural production by first-generation Chinese migrants in Italy. The study identifies a recurring dialectical engagement between Italian and Chinese cultures in these works. Drawing on interviews with a younger generation raised in Italy, the chapter analyzes evolving perspectives on Chineseness and its role in creative practice, highlighting diverse and forward-looking approaches to Sino-Italian cultural identity. |
Book Chapters |
English |
history |
Chineseness; identity; cultural production; migrants\n |
Europe |
Italy |
Pedone, Valentina. "Cultural Production and Representations of Identity: Questioning Chineseness in the Sino-Italian Context." In Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe, edited by Mette Thuno and Simeng Wang. Brill, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004712140. |
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004712140 |
| 283 |
The Sinophone as an Uneven Experience of Time and Place: Translocal Media Consumption in Chinese-Speaking Malaysia |
Yu, Ting-Fai |
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2024.0 |
Drawing on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines how Chinese-language popular media shape identity formation among Chinese Malaysians after the 1990s. It argues that these processes operate through translocal dynamics alongside transnational ones, producing varied cultural orientations across generations and regions. The study discusses changing patterns of media consumption, the influence of geographic proximity on cultural circulation, and the coexistence of multiple Sinophone media sources beyond the PRC. By foregrounding internal diversity within Chinese-speaking Malaysia, the article emphasizes how Sinophone cultural experiences are structured by uneven temporal and spatial conditions rather than a singular, nation-centered trajectory. |
Journal Articles |
English |
mass media |
identity; translocal; transnational; popular media |
Southeast Asia |
Malaysia |
Yu, Ting-Fai. "The Sinophone as an Uneven Experience of Time and Place: Translocal Media Consumption in Chinese-Speaking Malaysia." Positions 32, no. 4 (2024): 943–964. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11306868. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11306868 |
| 284 |
Cantando Singapur - Singing Singapore: el fenómeno de las xinyao, entre mandarinización y resistencia - The Xinyao Phenomenon Between Mandarinization and Resistance |
Paoliello, Antonio |
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2025.0 |
This article examines Singapore’s Sinitic language landscape and state-led Mandarinization campaigns through a study of xinyao, Mandarin songs produced mainly by students from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Analyzing selected song lyrics, it argues that while xinyao emerged within policies promoting Mandarin, it also functioned as a form of cultural resistance. These songs articulate local Sinophone identity and challenge linguistic homogenization by implicitly contesting the marginalization and invisibility of other Sinitic languages, such as Cantonese and Hokkien, traditionally spoken by the Sino-Singaporean community. |
Journal Articles |
Spanish |
music |
Mandarinization; xinyao 新谣; linguistic homogenization; linguistic resistance |
Southeast Asia |
Singapore |
Paoliello, Antonio. “Cantando Singapur - Singing Singapore: el fenómeno de las xinyao, entre mandarinización y resistencia - The Xinyao Phenomenon Between Mandarinization and Resistance.” Estudios de Asia y Africa 60, no. 2 (187) (2025): 1–20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27385616. |
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27385616. |
| 285 |
Queering the Asian Diaspora: East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics |
Bao, Hongwei |
Sage |
2024.0 |
This book responds to the intensified Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 era by centering queer Asian diasporic voices that are often marginalized within both anti-racist and Asian advocacy discourses. Drawing on diverse case studies in art, fashion, performance, film, and activism, it articulates an intersectional cultural politics that is anti-nationalist, anti-racist, decolonial, feminist, and queer. The author situates his analysis within his own lived experience of navigating multiple positionalities as queer, Asian, and diasporic, and engages with debates over terms such as ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) to critique homogenizing identity categories while amplifying neglected cultural practices. |
Monographs |
English |
sociology |
diaspora; identity; LGBTQ; sexuality; cultural politics; Sinophobia; anti-Asian racism |
Cross-region |
East Asia; Southeast Asia |
Bao, Hongwei. Queering the Asian Diaspora: East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics. Sage, 2024. |
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/queering-the-asian-diaspora/book284796 |
| 286 |
Classicism in Digital Times: Cultural Remembrance as Reimagination in the Sinophone Cyberspace |
Wang, David Der-Wei; Yang, Zhiyi |
Duke University Press |
2024.0 |
This special issue examines Chineseness in the digital age through the multicentered, multidimensional, and multifunctional phenomenon of Sinophone classicism. It highlights how digital technologies generate kinetic connections among dispersed individuals who act as agents of cultural remembrance and imagination, contributing to the disruption and fragmentation of geopolitical and ethno-cultural communities. Framing these processes as a form of virtual cultural-linguistic nationalism, the contributors emphasize that their long-term ramifications remain to be observed and present the collection as a starting point for future scholarly inquiry into digital Sinophone classicism. |
Special Issue |
English |
multi-disciplines |
Chineseness; classicism; identity; nationalism; poetry; video game; drama; opera; Dream of the Red Chamber; White Snake; dance; word game\n |
General |
|
Wang, David Der-Wei, and Zhiyi Yang, eds. "Classicism in Digital Times: Cultural Remembrance as Reimagination in the Sinophone Cyberspace." Special Issue, Prism, vol. 20, no. 2 (2023). |
https://dukeupress.edu/classicism-in-digital-times-cultural-remembrance-as-reimagination-in-the-sinophone-cyberspace |
| 287 |
Sinophone Hong Kong as Queer Environs: A Cross-Media Unruly Comparison of Lo Ting |
Wong, Alvin K. |
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2024.0 |
This essay positions Sinophone Hong Kong as a key site for theorizing queer interspecies entanglement through the mythological figure of Lo Ting, a half-human, half-fish being. It examines Lo Ting as an indigenous embodiment that reflects Hong Kong’s entanglements with premodern Chinese empire, British colonialism, and contemporary Chinese governmentality. Through a comparative analysis of Lo Ting’s representations in postmodern art installation, popular cinema, and performance art across the 1997 handover, the essay shows how these visual art forms articulate feminist and queer decolonial perspectives. It argues that such representations imagine Hong Kong’s capacity to exceed totalizing colonial, capitalist, and governmental forces through human–nonhuman entanglements. |
Journal Articles |
English |
multi-disciplines |
LGBTQ; Lo Ting 盧亭; queer; decolonial; colonialism; capitalism; governmentality |
East Asia |
Hong Kong |
Wong, Alvin K. "Sinophone Hong Kong as Queer Environs: A Cross-Media Unruly Comparison of Lo Ting." Diacritics 52, no. 2 (2024): 48-65. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2024.a964052. |
https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2024.a964052 |
| 288 |
Sinophone Geopolitics and Postcolonial Materiality in Cold War Borneo: An Ecological Reading of Chang Kuei-hsing’s Elephant Herd |
Liew, Zhou Hau |
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2024.0 |
This essay analyzes Chang Kuei-hsing’s Elephant Herd (1998) from an ecological perspective, situating the novel within the context of the Sarawak communist insurgency during the Cold War. It examines how the novel reinterprets this underrepresented conflict by foregrounding its environmental impact on the Bornean landscape and its peoples. Challenging historical narratives centered on colonial authorities or ethnic Chinese insurgents, the essay highlights the transformation of the settler Sinophone subject through encounters in the rainforest. By emphasizing Indigenous experiences and environmental ruins, the novel proposes a postcolonial reimagining of Borneo grounded in the perspective of the Iban people. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
postcolonial; Chang Kuei-hsing (Zhang Guixing) 張貴興; political ecology; migrants; Cold War |
Southeast Asia |
Borneo |
Liew, Zhou Hau. "Sinophone Geopolitics and Postcolonial Materiality in Cold War Borneo: An Ecological Reading of Chang Kuei-hsing’s Elephant Herd." English Language Notes 62, no.1 (2024): 81–96. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-11096275. |
https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-11096275 |
| 289 |
Mobility and Identity in Chinese Italian Writings |
Pedone, Valentina |
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2024.0 |
This essay develops an analytical framework for Sino-Italian literary production by integrating theories from mobility studies and Sinophone studies to account for diverse patterns of movement between China and Italy. Drawing on the concept of mobility as the interaction of movement, meaning, and power, it broadens existing approaches beyond a narrow focus on low-skilled labor migration. Treating Sinophone writing as place-based articulation regardless of language, the essay analyzes three Italy-based authors whose differing material and symbolic mobility conditions shape their literary practices. These case studies demonstrate how varied modes of mobility produce heterogeneous Sino-Italian literary expressions. |
Journal Articles |
English |
literature |
identity; mobility; migrants |
Cross-region |
China; Italy |
Pedone, Valentina. "Mobility and Identity in Chinese Italian Writings." International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies 28, no. 1 (2024): 105-20. https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/11605. |
https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/11605 |
| 290 |
The ‘Queer Woman’ between Shanghai and Nanyang, 1920s–1930s |
Huang, Xuelei |
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2024.0 |
This article examines actress Yang Naimei and her film Qi nüzi (A Queer Woman, 1928), produced by the first film company founded by a woman in China. It traces the film’s circulation from Shanghai to British and Dutch colonies in Nanyang between 1929 and 1931. The article argues that the film’s disappearance from Chinese film historiography reflects two forms of neglect: the marginalization of the "queer women" in relation to the canonized “new woman,” and the overlooking of diasporic Sinophone spectatorship beyond China proper. Drawing on diverse archival materials, it reconstructs neglected histories of Chinese cinema and transregional cinematic and performance exchanges. |
Journal Articles |
English |
cinema |
Yang Naimei 楊耐梅; diaspora; transregional |
Cross-region |
Shanghai; Southeast Asia |
Huang, Xuelei. “The ‘Queer Woman’ between Shanghai and Nanyang, 1920s–1930s.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 18, no.1 (2024): 60–79. doi:10.1080/17508061.2024.2320608. |
https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2024.2320608 |
| 291 |
Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture |
Bachner, Andrea |
Columbia University Press |
2014.0 |
This work examines how new communication and information technologies pose challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, whose multiple signifying principles distinguish it from phonetic writing systems. It reflects on the Chinese script from a range of alternative theoretical perspectives to analyze connections among language, script, medial expression, and cultural and national identities. Focusing on the concrete “scripting” of identity and alterity, the study critiques monolithic and univocal definitions of writing. It argues that the historical and contemporary reinvention of Chinese writing offers ways to understand mediality and cultural identity in interculturally responsible contexts. |
Monographs |
English |
language |
Chinese script; writing; identity; alterity; media |
General |
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Bachner, Andrea. Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture. Columbia University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7312/bach16452. |
https://doi.org/10.7312/bach16452 |
| 292 |
The Creolization of Theory |
Lionnet, Françoise; Shih, Shu-mei |
Duke University Press |
2011.0 |
This collection of essays revisits the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of academic disciplines to advance critical debates in the humanities. Situating American ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, and French theory within the decolonial, civil rights, and antiwar movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the contributors trace their shared origins and subsequent divergences. Critiquing the depoliticization and abstract universalism of Euro-American theory, the volume advances “creolization” as a reciprocal, relational, and intersectional theoretical framework attentive to colonial legacies. In doing so, it casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures shaped by colonial and postcolonial conditions, laying important theoretical groundwork for the field. |
edited volumes |
English |
sociology |
creolization; postcolonialism; colonialism |
General |
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Lionnet, Françoise, and Shu-mei Shih, eds. The Creolization of Theory. Duke University Press, 2011. |
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The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature |
Chiu, Kuei-Fen; Zhang, Yingjin |
Hong Kong University Press |
2022.0 |
This edited collection seeks to connect world literature studies with Chinese and Sinophone literary scholarship by situating developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures within a global framework. It offers a critical mapping of world literature, Sinophone literature, and world literature in Chinese, clarifying the conceptual distinctions among these fields. The volume addresses questions of translation, genre, and the role of media and technology in shaping notions of literature and literary prestige. Through analyses of translation, reception, and cross-media circulation, the collection examines how Chinese and Sinophone literatures are constituted and understood as world literature. |
edited volumes |
English |
literature |
global; translation; reception; genre; media |
General |
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Chiu, Kuei-fen, and Yingjin Zhang, eds. The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature. Hong Kong University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789888754588. |
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789888754588 |
| 294 |
Not like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience |
Chow, Rey |
Columbia University Press |
2014.0 |
This book examines the enduring inequalities embedded in linguistic encounters in the postcolonial world. Through a series of case studies spanning Francophone, Anglophone, and Sinophone contexts—including colonial and postcolonial Hong Kong—it explores how speaking and writing are imbricated with race, class, and histories of domination. The work conceptualizes postcolonial “languaging” as a form of biopolitics and challenges the privileged status of the “native speaker” as a stable origin of linguistic authority. By situating Chinese-English negotiations within broader debates on language and power, it reconfigures the geopolitical scope of postcolonial inquiry and emphasizes the entanglement of historical experience with sound, script, and affect. |
Monographs |
English |
language |
postcolonial; biopolitics; cross-cultural |
General |
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Chow, Rey. Not like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience. Columbia University Press, 2014. |
Publisher's page: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/not-like-a-native-speaker/9780231151443/ |