Global Chinese Literature

Jing Tsu, Ph.D. (Harvard University), is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Yale University. She is author of Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2010).David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He is author, editor, and co-editor of numerous publications in English and Chinese, including The Monster That is History: Violence, History, and Fictional Writing in 20th Century China (University of California Press, 2004); Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (Duke University Press, 2007).

"This book offers a rich and thought-provoking engagement with this concept, raising the fundamental question of what 'global Chinese literature' means and what is at stake in naming it Sinophone...this is the first sustained effort to open up the Sinophone to multiple understandings."– Paola Iovene, University of Chicago, in The China Journal 69 (January 2013)."This edited volume is a timely collection of essays on a significant question in China studies: how to categorise and theorise about literature (and creative texts in other media) produced outside the boundaries of Mainland China in the Chinese language or in other languages by ethnic Chinese writers."– Yiyan Wang, Victoria University of Wellington, in Asian Studies Review 37.1 (2013)."This thought-provoking anthology has opened up many fascinating questions [...] anyone who is interested in the interplay between language, ethnicity and identity should not miss it." – Zhengdao Ye, The Australian National University, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 13.2 (December 2011).

• 1. Introduction: Global Chinese LiteratureJing Tsu and David Der-wei Wang2. Minor Sinophone Literature: Diasporic Modernity’s Incomplete JourneyKim Chew Ng3. Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of ProductionShu-mei Shih4. Global Vision and Locatedness: World Literature in Chinese/by Chinese (Shijie huawen/huaren wenxue 世界華文／華人文學) from a Chinese Americanist PerspectiveSau-ling C. Wong5. (Re)mapping Sinophone LiteratureKim Tong Tee6. Sinophonics and the Nationalization of ChineseJing Tsu7. Alai and the Linguistic Politics of Internal DiasporaCarlos Rojas8. Thinking with Food, Writing off Center: Notes on Two Hong Kong AuthorsRey Chow9. In Search of a Genuine Chinese Sound: Jiang Wenye and Modern Chinese MusicDavid Der-wei Wang10. Reinventing Chinese Writing: Zhang Guixing’s Sinographic TranslationsAndrea Bachner11. Chinese Literature in the Global Canon: The Quest for RecognitionJulia Lovell12. Commentary: On the “Sainifeng 賽呢風” as a Global LiteratureEric Hayot