Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet

Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora and East-West comparative studies. His books in English include: The Last Isle (2015); Alienglish (2014); Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity (2012); Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture (2011); East-West Montage (2007); The Deathly Embrace (2000); and Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures (1998).

• 1. Sino-Anglo-Euro Wolf Fan(g)s from Jiang Rong to Annaud.- 2. To Anglicize and Angelize the Rape of Nanking.- 3. Asiatic Aspie: Millennial (ab)Use of Asperger’s Syndrome.- 4. Turandot: The Chinese Box by Puccini, Zeffirelli, Zhang, and Chen.- 5. Speaking (of the) Dragon: Slain by the West, Ridden by the East.- 6. Asian Inscrewtability in Hollywood.- 7. Gene Luen Yang’s Graphic Bi-Bye to China/town.- 8. Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest in Chang-rae Lee and Bich Minh Nguyen.- 9. On Sci-Fi’s Good China, Bad China: Maureen F. McHugh and Chang-rae Lee.- 10. Fed (up) with Gyoza and Vodka: Oldboy’s Forbidden Fruit of Alterity.- 11. Noodle Western: Asian Gunslingers, Swordplayers, Filmmakers Gone West.- 12. Millennial Taiwan Food Films: Naming and Epicurean Cure.