1st Edition
Chinese Diasporic Writing and Culture
Introduction: Chinese diasporic writing
Jonathan Locke Hart
1. Intersectional environmentalism: Russell C. Leong’s “Azure in Angel City: A Blues Sketch, Part One”
King-Kok Cheung
2. Reconfiguration and representation in the literary landscape: Chinese-language literary production in Singapore
Cheun Hoe Yow
3. Sanity at the mercy of language: Interpreting the “nonsense” of a Chinese miner in Australia
Xu Mao
4. Hong Kong echoes across English ghost lands: A decolonizing of English-language poetry
Gregory B. Lee
5. Interpoetics or the poetics of culture and the culture of poetics in Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, and Fred Wah
Jonathan Locke Hart
6. Imagined community: Chinatown narrative in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Steer Toward Rock
Xiujuan Lan
7. A transnational vision of The King and I: On American culture and policy in David Henry Hwang’s Soft Power
Zhiyun Zhao
8. Five worlds from the man in the blue T-shirt: Interview with Russell C. Leong
Jonathan Locke Hart
Afterword: Diaspora as translation
Shang Wu
Biography
Jonathan Locke Hart holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of Academia Europea. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Associate of Harvard University Herbaria, and Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has authored over thirty books, edited numerous volumes, and published over one hundred articles and essays. A recipient of many international awards, including two Fulbright Fellowships to Harvard, he has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Leiden, UC Irvine, Peking University, and elsewhere internationally.
Shang Wu is a faculty member at the College of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests include Asian American studies, translation theories, and travel writing. Recent publications include "Writing Travel as Janus: Cultural Translation as Descriptive Category for Travel Writing" in Interlitteraria and "Revisiting Asian American Poetics: A Review of Heterogeneity and a Case of Russell Leong" in Canadian Review of American Studies.
