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Visuality and Identity

Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

By: Shu-mei Shih

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Visuality and Identity

Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

By: Shu-mei Shih

Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, Shih examines the production and circulation of images across what she terms the "Sinophone Pacific," which comprises Sinitic-language speaking communities such as the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America. This groundbreaking work argues that the dispersal of the so-called Chinese peoples across the world needs to be reconceptualized in terms of vibrant or vanishing communities of Sinitic-language cultures rather than of ethnicity and nationality.

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267

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Univ of California Press

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ISBN 10

0520940156

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9780520940154

The Lure of the Modern

Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937

By: Shu-mei Shih

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The Lure of the Modern

Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937

By: Shu-mei Shih

Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time. Engaging critically with theories of modernism, postcoloniality, and global and local cultural studies, Shih analyzes pivotal issues—such as psychoanalysis, decadence, Orientalism, Occidentalism, semicolonial subjectivity, cosmopolitanism, and urbanism—that were mediated by Japanese as well as Western modernisms.

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450

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Univ of California Press

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0520935284

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9780520935280