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Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction: Ghost Narratives and the Contouring of Invisible Realms book cover

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Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction Ghost Narratives and the Contouring of Invisible Realms

By Di-kai Chao Copyright 2025
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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Chao explores Sinophone literature as a complex field that navigates the intersections of Sinitic languages, global literary systems, and China-centered perspectives. He presents an alternative perspective that Sinophone literature, especially through ghost narratives, offers a platform for communities to critically examine modernity, transgress boundaries, and challenge epistemologies. By... Read more

Introduction: Ghostly Sinophone Articulation within Multiple Power Networks

1.     Worlding Taiwaneseness: Sinophone Taiwan Ghost Narratives and Their Post-colonial Agenda

2.     Returning to Disappearance: Ghost Narratives in Sinophone Hong Kong

3.     Negotiation in Post-Chineseness: On Ghost Narratives in Sinophone Malaysian Literature

4.     Fabulating China’s Stories: Dystopian Ghost Narratives and Peach Blossom Spring in Fiction from the Chinese Mainland

Conclusion

Biography

Di-kai Chao is a postdoctoral researcher at East China Normal University, China. His research focuses on ghost narratives in contemporary Sinophone fiction and the discourse on the “lyrical tradition” in Chinese literature.

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Title: Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction
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