1st Edition
Chinese Diasporic Writers and Artists Reimagining Identity and the Self Beyond and Without China
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Notes on Chapter Authors
Introduction. Chinese Writers and Artists in Diaspora: Constructing the Self Beyond and Without China
Kwok-kan Tam and Lily Li
1. Diasporic Ground, National Parallels, and Continental Divides: Resituating Chinese North American Identities in the Twenty-First Century
Angela C. Pao
2. Aesthetic Synergy in the Art of Tyrus Wong
Neil H. Wright
3. Domestic Life as an Allegory of Migration in Ha Jin’s Waiting
Lily Li
4. Folding and Unfolding: Evolving Cultural Identity in Shen Wei’s Modern Dance
Fei Shi
5. The Home(land)less Self in Gao Xingjian
Kwok-kan Tam
6. Dis/Re-location of the Self in the Film Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Terry Siu-han Yip
7. Hong Kong Diasporans in Clara Law’s Films Autumn Moon and Floating Life
Kaby Wing-sze Kung
8. The Female Self and the Mirror in Xiaolu Guo’s Two Feature Films
Lily Li
9. Hong Ying: The Disowned Daughter Writing in Diaspora
Wenyang Zhai
10. Writing in Diaspora: Eileen Chang’s Self Writing
Claire C. Rodan
11. The Language of Survival: Linguistic Migrations in the Age of Globalization
Ha Jin
12. Twentieth-Century Chinese Prisonscape and its French Exophone Articulation in François Cheng and Dai Sijie
Shuangyi Li
13. Mirrored Self: Identity Construction in Sinophone Literature in Thailand
Rebecca Ehrenwirth
Index
Biography
Kwok-kan Tam is Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor of English at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Lily Li is Lecturer in Chinese and Humanities at Eastern Kentucky University, USA.
