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Early 21st-Century Power Struggles of Chinese Languages Teaching in US Higher Education

By: Ya-chen Chen

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Early 21st-Century Power Struggles of Chinese Languages Teaching in US Higher Education

By: Ya-chen Chen

This book exclusively focuses on visible and under-the-table power struggles with regards to aspects of communities, connections, cultures, and communication related to Chinese language teaching in US higher education in the past two decades. As long as there are diverse communities in a society, conflicts between different groups of people become inevitable, and these lead, in turn, to power struggles. Once there are conflicts or power struggles among various communities, problematic subtleties about connections to different communities, as well as comparisons and contrasts of social varieties and cultural legacies, indubitably ensue.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527519031

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9781527519039

Women in Taiwan

Sociocultural Perspectives

By: Ya-chen Chen

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Women in Taiwan

Sociocultural Perspectives

By: Ya-chen Chen

In the English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest, and perhaps the first academic book focusing on Taiwanese women and gender issues from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. It features the interrelations between cultural trends and women in Taiwan. In most current Western research and academic institution, Taiwanese studies deals with modern Taiwan since the Qing Dynasty or the Opium War to the contemporary era, and usually belongs to the division of Chinese studies or modern Chinese studies in the overall area of Asian studies. Historically and socioculturally, however, cultural dimensions in Taiwan are not exactly the same as those in mainland China and Hong Kong. This book sets itself apart by providing a bird's-eye view of gender issues impacted by diverse cultures in Taiwan from the Japanese colonial era to the present century.

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196

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University Press

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1880938731

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9781880938737

The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism

By: Y. Chen

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The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism

By: Y. Chen

In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait. It problematizes recent scholarly understanding of feminist complexity in various Chinese-speaking areas. This book addresses sociocultural backgrounds of how Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong feminist scholars strategize their transfers, localization, and acculturation of Western feminist literary theories. It emphasizes how Chinese literary theorists filter, gate-keep, select, import latest Western feminist theories, and then match them with local socio-cultural trends by exerting comparative researchers' cross-cultural and cross-lingual academic power in order to tackle Mainland China's, Taiwan's, and Hong Kong's own gender problems.

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293

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Springer

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0230119182

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9780230119185

The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing

By: Ya-chen Chen

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The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing

By: Ya-chen Chen

A number of Taiwanese scholars gate-kept, filtered, selected, and strategized to transfer Luce Irigaray’s, Hélène Cixous’s, and Julia Kristeva’s French feminist theories into their own national context by exerting their cross-lingual and cross-cultural academic power in the 1990s. They also reshaped, localized, acculturated, marketed, and Taiwanized these French feminist theories, which was essential for Taiwanese academia. According to French feminist literary theories, écriture féminine (“feminine writing”) refers to women’s own written self-expression used to escape from the patriarchal language system. Beginning with a description of the acculturation of French feminist literary theories, this book highlights how women’s own spoken voices or autobiographical written expressions appear in Taiwanese cinematic works when the camera is compared to the cinematic pen. It analytically digest the écriture féminine of parler-femme in the Taiwanese films The Butcher’s Wife, Taste of Life, Sex Appeal, and Ghosted.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527581330

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9781527581333

Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium

Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics

By: Ya-chen Chen

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Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium

Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics

By: Ya-chen Chen

Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, examines underexposed gender issues in more recent films, focusing on the contradictory feminism in the film narratives. Through the lens of Chinese martial arts films, Chen delves into "Chinese cinematic martial arts feminism," highlighting the glass ceiling which marks the maximal exercise of feminism which the patriarchal order is willing to accept.

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Lexington Books

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0739139088

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9780739139080

Book's by Ya-chen Chen

Early 21st-Century Power Struggles of Chinese Languages Teaching in US Higher Education

Early 21st-Century Power Struggles of Chinese Languages Teaching in US Higher Education

Women in Taiwan

Women in Taiwan

The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism

The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism

The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing

The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing

Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium

Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium

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