1st Edition
Reading China Against the Grain Imagining Communities
Part 1: Mainland China
1. Allegorizing History: Realism and Fantasy in Mo Yan’s Fictional China
Mei-hwa Sung
2. Unattainable Maturity: Yu Hua’s Cries in the Drizzle as an Anti-Bildungsroman
XU Xi
3. Frankenstein vs. Dracula: Romanticisms and the Ideologies of Poetry in Contemporary China
Lucas Klein
4. Fanhua, Global Modernism, and the Art of Detachment
Wen Jin
Part 2: Border Regions
5. Wolf Totem: An Allegory of the Future
Q. S. Tong
6. Writing the Motherland(s) on Their Borders: Kim Hak-ch’ŏl and His Cultural Criticism of Maoist China
Miya Qiong Xie
7. Keeping to the Margins: Macau Literature and a Pre-postcolonial "Poetics of Insignificance"
Rosa Vieira de Almeida
8. Explaining "Graphs" and Analyzing "Characters": Zhang Guixing’s Novels and Sinophone Literature’s Cultural Imaginings and Representational Strategies
Mei Chia-ling
Part III: The Global Chinese Diaspora
9. Tales Out of School: Campus Fiction from Taiwan
Mary Goodwin
10. The Practice of Annotation and Translation in Qiu Xiaolong’s Inspector Chen Mysteries
Charles Lowe
11. From "Chinese Diaspora" to "Sinospore": Multispecies Chineseness and Transmemory in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl
Belinda Kong
12. Xiaolu Guo’s I Am China: On Copulas and Copulation
Carlos Rojas
Biography
Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Genders, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books on global Chinese literature and culture.
Mei-hwa Sung received her PhD in English from Brown University in 1983 and has taught at National Taiwan University, Tamkang University, and Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). She has a long record of professional service, including the editorship of Chung-Wai Literary Monthly and Tamkang Review. She has published essays and books on eighteenth-century English literature, gender studies, and Taiwan fiction.
