Sinoglossia
The concept of sinoglossia combines a heteroglossic and heterotopian approach to the critical study of mediated discourses of China and “Chineseness.”

Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines: A Reader

This reader presents the latest and most cutting-edge work in Sinophone studies, bringing together both senior and emerging scholars to highlight the interdisciplinary reach and significance of this vital field.

Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification
Critiques the idea of a Chinese cultural identity and argues that such identities are instead determined by geopolitical and economic forces.

Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader

This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences.

Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays

The book introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses.

Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

The book reflects on the Chinese script to pinpoint the multiple connections between languages, scripts, and medial expressions and cultural and national identities.

The Creolization of Theory
Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward.

Lu Xun and World Literature

This book not only makes an important contribution to the field of Lu Xun studies, but also proposes a reexamination of the category of world literature.

The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature

This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global perspective on Chinese literary studies beyond the traditional national literature paradigm and its recent critique by Sinophone studies.

Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

The volume focuses on three interrelated themes – the framing and worlding ploys of Taiwanese literature, Taiwanese writers' experience of transculturation, and politics behind translating Taiwanese literature.

China’s Literary Cosmopolitans: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters
The book offers a comprehensive introduction to the literary oeuvres of Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. It assesses their novels, essays, stories, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism, and discusses their reception as two of the most important Chinese scholar-writers of the twentieth century.

Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism
This book examines and interprets the uncanny similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens.

Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)
To trace the global journey of these literatures and ideas, Ma maps four case studies involving leading cultural figures including Leo Tolstoy, Futabatei Shimei, and Lu Xun.

Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility

In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, Fan examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences.

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange

The book theorizes competing visions of "China" and "Shakespeare" in the global cultural marketplace and challenges the logic of fidelity-based criticism and the myth of cultural exclusivity.

Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere
Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the book complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center-periphery, colonizer-colonized, and developed-developing.

Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness

Wong focuses on the transpacific networks that reconfigure Chineseness, complicating a diasporic framework of cultural authenticity.

Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics

The book demonstrates the extensive reach of Gao Xingjian’s transcultural, transdisciplinary, and transmedia explorations.

Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet

By focusing on a “Sinophone-Anglophone” relationship rather than a “China-US” one, Sheng-mei Ma eschews realpolitik, focusing on the two languages and the cross-cultural spheres where, contrary to Kipling’s twain, East and West forever meet, like a repetition compulsion bordering on neurosis over the self and its cultural other.

Minor Transnationalism
Based in a broad range of fields—including literature, history, African studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, French and francophone studies, and Latin American studies—the book complicates ideas of minority cultural formations and challenges the notion that transnationalism is necessarily a homogenizing force.

Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

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.

The Southern Discourse in Sinophone LiteratureMoving Borders
This book analyzes various critical themes, including transnational migration, racial dynamics and stereotypes, gender politics, indigenous awareness, cultural hybridity, and global connections between the South and North.

New World Orderings: China and the Global South
The book demonstrates that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Sideways Developments: Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong
The bookexamines Hong Kong Anglophone and Cantophone literature and visual culture to trace the forms of queer and trans survival and flourishing in the Asian century.

Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities: A Western Immigrant Perspective.
The book sheds novel light on the ideological complexity that tends to underlie queer individuals' performance of 'who they are', in Sinophone contexts and elsewhere.

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere

The book is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world.

Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone

The book examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture, and civil society.

Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies

The book presents a definitive collection of original contributions, which are both theoretically and empirically grounded and cross-disciplinary in nature. Individual chapters offer an in-depth study of new empirical data and case studies, covering keywords such as transpacific, viscerality, fandom, postcoloniality, ethnicity and activism.

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

Chiang brings Sinophone studies to bear on trans theory to deconstruct the ways in which sexual normativity and Chinese imperialism have been produced through one another.

After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the centrality of new epistemic structures to the formation of Chinese modernity.

Queer Sinophone Cultures

The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender.

New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections

Examining queerness in films produced in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the book merges the Sinophone with the queer, theorising both concepts as local and global, homebound as well as diasporic.

Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas
Song Hwee Lim argues that the emergence of Chinese cinemas in the international scene since the 1980s created a public sphere in which representations of marginal sexualities could flourish in its interstices.

Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience.

The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China
Tze-lan D. Sang convincingly ties the debate over female same-sex love in China to the emergence of Chinese modernity.

Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture
This is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s.

Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading between West and East
The book examines the relationship of “woman” to issues of non-western culture.

Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China
Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period

Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction
The book offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works.

Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star
Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.

Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building

Kwai-Cheung Lo argues that the glossy, but superficial, cinematic depictions of non-Han ethnic minorities manufactured and manipulated by state authorities have deeply penetrated the Chinese public’s conception of what an ideal multiethnic nation should be like as well as what it means to be Chinese under political unification. 

Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered

The book presents diverse approaches to the vibrant commercial film industry known as Taiwanese-language cinema (taiyupian).

Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-20: Environments, Poetics, Practice

Drawing on cinema, cartography, and cultural studies, Christopher Brown argues that by refocusing attention on how films are shaped through a process of construction, the tradition of film poetics enables us to think about Taiwanese cinema differently: as a form of mapping.

Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang

Nicholas de Villiers argues that Tsai expands and revises the notion of queerness by engaging with the sexuality of characters who are migrants, tourists, diasporic, or otherwise displaced.

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness
How can we qualify slowness in cinema? What is the relationship between a cinema of slowness and a wider socio-cultural “slow movement”?

The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image CultureAltering Archives
Sinophone cinemas and image production function as archives, with the capability of reinterpreting the multiple dimensions of past and present.

The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion
This book offers important information for those particularly interested in the society and politics of postwar Taiwan and Sinophone culture in general.

Sinophone Cinemas
Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. It showcases new screen cultures from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia.

Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

This book probes many crucial controversies: What are Taiwan’s meaningful cultural and historical connections to Japan? How do Taiwanese filmmakers and audiences feel about mainland China? How does Taiwan cinema deal with environmental issues, animal rights, human trafficking, sexuality, and the challenges facing ethnic minorities?

Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals
Through utilising in-depth case studies of films by Taiwan-based directors: Tsai Ming-liang, Zhao Deyin and Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai discusses how Taiwan New Cinema represents a struggling configuration of the ‘nation’, brought forth by Taiwan’s multilayered colonial and postcolonial histories.

Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition

The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries.

New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus: Moving Within and Beyond the Frame

As the case studies in this book demonstrate, filmmakers such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, and Ang Lee each engage with international audience expectations.

Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema

Beyond the conventional framework of privileging “New and Post-New Cinema,” or prominence of auteurs or single films, this volume is a comprehensive, judicious take on Taiwan cinema that fills gaps in the literature, offers a renewed historiography, and introduces new creative force and voices of Taiwan’s moving image culture to produce a leading and accessible work on Taiwan film and culture.

Sino-Enchantment: The Fantastic in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas

The book is the first work in English to approach this recent explosion of fantastic film in Chinese cinemas, where each re-envisioning of the form is determined by cultural, economic, political and technological factors to produce fresh inventions and creative reinventions of familiar narratives, characters and tropes.

Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan

This book looks at the studios, films and policies that charted the transnational vision of Hong Kong and Taiwan, two places with an uneasy relationship to the idea of nationhood.

Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film
Deppman unites aesthetics with history in her argument that the rise of cinema in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the late 1980s was partly fueled by burgeoning literary movements.

Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture

Larson argues that the films do not uncritically promote nationalism as some argue, but rather that they probe the possibilities for and limitations of culture in a globally-situated China.

Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938
Huang Xuelei invites readers to go on an intimate, detailed, behind-the-scenes tour of the world of early Chinese cinema.

Screening China: Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

Zhang narrates how New Chinese Cinema struggled to break free of the ethnic and cultural representation sought by Western audiences, introducing readers to the numerous Chinese filmmakers who have used the space opened up by New Chinese Cinema to present China in all its social, historical, political, ethnic, cultural, and economic facets.

Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories

This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution.

Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature

Highlighting Mahua literature’s distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness.

Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature

Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.

Rethinking Chineseness: Transnational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World

This book examines the relationship between the Nanyang Chinese, their original homelands (Borneo, Malaysia and Singapore) and their imaginary homeland (China) through the works of writers such as Kuo Pao Kun, Chang Kuei-hsing, and Vyvyane Loh.

Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Not Made in China

By analyzing the literary texts of several of the most influential contemporary Malaysia-born, Chinese-language authors, Groppe shows how the texts’ complex explorations of sentimental attachments, cultural contexts, and sources of power form the basis for a contested, fractured, unstable, and yet enduring Chinese Malaysian identity.

Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience
Chow suggests, postcolonial languaging becomes, de facto, an order of biopolitics. The native speaker, the fulcrum figure often accorded a transcendent status, is realigned here as the repository of illusory linguistic origins and unities.

Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China
Looks at the fate of Hong Kong's unique culture since its reversion to China.

An Unlikely Trajectory: Literary and Cultural Leftism in Taiwan
Examines various case studies to provide a multifaceted understanding of Taiwan's literary and cultural leftism, emphasizing its transnational, diverse, and highly malleable nature.

Taiwanese Face, Chinese Masks: Yang Mu and His Postcolonial Poetry
This book reveals how Yang Mu, a leading Sinophone poet, resisted Kuomintang authoritarianism through poetic strategies that affirmed suppressed Taiwanese identity.

Taiwan’s Modern Identity: Reimagined Becoming Taiwanese
This book examines the formation of Taiwan’s modern identity during the course of the twentieth century and its intersection with the “new” Taiwanese identity. 

The Wu Ming-yi Companion: Literature, Environment, and Translation through Compound Eyes

This volume situates Wu’s work within the broader contexts of world literature, Sinophone studies, and environmental humanities, exploring his engagement with indigenous narratives, transnational ecocriticism, and Taiwan’s complex colonial history.

Imagining Modern Poetry: Poetic Modernisms in Taiwan
This book offers an in-depth discussion of the evolution of modernist poetry in Taiwan, with a focus on periods preceding and following World War II, and contextualizes the movement within the broader frameworks of Western, Japanese, and Chinese modernism.

Identity, Multiplicity, and Resistance in Taiwanese Poetry

The book explores how Taiwanese poets conceptualize their identities, employing multiple voices to challenge political hegemony and re-evaluate Taiwan’s colonial legacy and nationalism.

Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader

This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both established and young writers. It not only engages with the evolving trends of literary Taiwan, but also promotes the translocal consciousness and cultural diversity of the island state and beyond.

Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan

This book speaks to the current framework of Sinophone studies by focusing on modern Taiwan and its entanglement with cultural China, Chinese diasporas, nativist trend, and Aboriginal consciousness.

Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond

This first scholarly monograph focusing on the literary and cultural geography of Taiwan through a Sinophone lens is therefore a step toward filling the gap.

Ecocriticism in Taiwan: Identity, Environment, and the Arts
This volume can be seen as a critical response to Taiwan's postcolonial, capitalist-industrial modernity, as manifested in the scholars’ readings of Taiwan's "mountain and river," ocean, animal, and aboriginal (non)fictional narratives, environmental documentaries, and art installations.

Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film
The book is a study of colonial Taiwanese fiction, its translation from Japanese to Chinese, and films produced during and about the colonial era.

Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance

This book is a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study which compares responses to modernity in the literary cultures of Japan and Taiwan, 1960-1990.

Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History

Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction.

Experimental Chinese Literature: Translation, Technology, Poetics
Focusing on a range of works by contemporary Chinese authors including Hsia Yü, Chen Li, and Xu Bing, Tong King Lee explores how experimental writers engage their readers in multimodal reading experiences by turning translation into a method and by exploiting various technologies.

Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law

This book argues that the concept of a field of cultural production is essential to accounting for the ways in which writers and editors respond to political and economic forces. It traces the formation of dominant concepts of literature, competing literary trends, and how these ideas have met political and market challenges.

Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema: Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsroman

The book addresses themes such as family and social change; gender, class, and generational divides, local/global politics, and the ecological and posthuman turns in Chinese/Sinophone culture.

Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

Yang brings disparate methodologies into a fruitful dialogue, including sophisticated methods of poetic interpretation. The author argues that Wang’s lyric poetry, as the public performance of a private voice, played a central role in constructing his political identity and heavily influenced the public’s posthumous memory of him.

Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs
Exploring Ding’s experiences with martyrdom and the commemoration of female revolutionary martyrs associated with her, the book provides a compelling argument that female revolutionary martyrdom reinforces, rather than rejects, the traditional concept of female chastity martyrdom.

Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse: Time, Space, Bodies, and Things

This volume identifies three foci in contemporary poetry discourses: formal crossovers, multiple realities, and liquid boundaries.

SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted issues of anti-Asian racism and sinophobia, Kong traces how Chinese people navigated the SARS pandemic and created meaning amid crisis through cultures of epidemic expression.

Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream
This book highlights those reconceptualizations that reflect on flexible blueprints of future community life or, more openly, forms of togetherness, that are suitable for continuous (re)negotiation rather than supporting fixed, top-down enforced models.

Digital China: Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere.

This volume examines this development through the notion of the Sinocybersphere - the networked spaces across the globe that not only operate on the Chinese script, but also imaginatively negotiate the meanings of Chinese culture in the digital age.

Internet Literature in China

Michel Hockx describes in detail the types of Chinese literature taking shape right now online and their novel aesthetic, political, and ideological challenges.

Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
The book offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature.

Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction

Song argues that recent Chinese science fiction is united by a capacity to illuminate what had been invisible—what society had chosen not to see; what conventional literature had failed to represent.

Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic
Chinese poetry, along with many other art forms in China, underwent a highly self-conscious transformation in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions across the Transpacific

Iwasaki looks at four writers, Xiao Hong, Yu Dafu, Lao She, and Zhang Ailing, through what she calls refractive relations. Following transpacific circuits, these writers and texts move not simply from periphery to center, or from obscurity to canon, but back and forth between literary, linguistic, and national communities.

The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun's Wild Grass (Yecao)
This study remedies the absence of a comprehensive English-language study of Lu Xun’s Yecao and is the perfect companion to the reading and study of Yecao.

Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950

This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular cultural genres from the late imperial period to the beginning of the socialist era.

On the Margins of Modernism: Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s
This groundbreaking book re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940's, with in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels.

Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

The book offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemporary Chinese citizens understand themselves and their nation.

The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China

Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese—often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude—this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity.

The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis

IWang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences it brought about: betrayal, self-abjuration, suicide, and silence.

The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book.

Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience
The book details for the first time in English the creation and evolution of a distinctive literary genre in twentieth-century China.

Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature

The essays represent a wide spectrum of new approaches and new areas of subject matter that are changing the landscape of knowledge of modern and contemporary Chinese culture: women's literature, theatre (performance), film, graphic arts, popular literature, as well as literature of the Chinese diaspora.

From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China
The book investigates the continual clash of these contrasting models of the mind provided by Freud and revolutionary Chinese culture, and explores how writers and filmmakers negotiated with the implications of each model.

Zeitgenossische Sinophone Literatur in Thailand (Contemporary Sinophone Literature in Thailand)
Rebecca Ehrenwirth prasentiert in ihrem Band zwei zeitgenossische Autoren der dritten Welle der sinophonen Literatur in Thailand.

Mother Tongues and Other Tongues: Creating and Translating Sinophone Poetry
This book analyzes contemporary translingual Sinophone poetry and discusses its creative processes and translational implications, along with their intersections.

Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation

Jessica Li argues that although self-translation is overlooked in most studies of her work, Eileen Chang’s literary achievements are attributed in part to her lifelong self-translation of her lived experiences and family sagas, as well as her bilingualism.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

The book provides new tools for reading and appreciating modern and contemporary Chinese literature within the global context of its translation, offering in-depth studies of eminent Chinese authors and their literary masterpieces in translation.

Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs
Pushing past oppositions that still too often restrict discussions of translation-form versus content, elegance versus accuracy, and "the original" versus "the translated" - this volume brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.

The Organization of Distance: Poetry, Translation, Chineseness

The book applies the notions of foreignization and nativization to Chinese poetry to argue that the impression of poetic Chineseness has long been a product of translation, from forces both abroad and in the past.

Between the Lines: Yang Lian's Poetry through Translation

Cosima Bruno illustrates how the study of translation can enhance our experience of reading poetry.

Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

Drawing on a diverse range of official and local political discourses and previously unstudied literary, historiographical, and cinematic works, Yanshuo Zhang illuminates how the Qiang have carved out spaces of “creative belonging” within the parameters of multiculturalism in contemporary China.

Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan

Robin Visser compares literary works by Bai, Bunun, Kazakh, Mongol, Tao, Tibetan, Uyghur, Wa, Yi, and Han Chinese writers set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Southwest China, and Taiwan, sites of extensive development, migration, and climate change impacts.

Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia
Through the theoretical lens of literary territorialization, Miya Xie reconceptualizes modern Manchuria as a critical site for making and unmaking national literatures in East Asia.

Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands: Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War
Chang probes their political, economic, and sociocultural trajectories, including their engagement in Taiwan’s espionage in Burma, military operations of the Communist Party of Burma, mule transport for the Burmese authorities, underground cross-border trade, and pursuit of a Chinese education.

Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction

It explores the connection between elusive memories and material cityscapes through the matrix of the senses.

Art and the Modernist Pursuit in Taiwan
This is the most up-to-date collection of essays in English on the trajectory of Taiwan and its modernist art movement currently available. 

Sinophone Comics: Histories, Identities, Medialities

Chapter contributors explore key themes in Sinophone studies: identity construction and history writing through positive or negative connections with China as a cultural and political center, contingent on local colonial legacies, nationalist projects, and other cultural factors.

On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China

The Book probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated.

Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China

Hillenbrand investigates the erasure of key aspects of such momentous events as the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests from the Chinese historical consciousness, not due to amnesia or censorship but through the operations of public secrecy.

The Chinese Censorship Discourse on Television Dramas: Worrying about the Audience in Postsocialist China

Focusing on the idea of “worrying about the audience”, the book shows how concerns about young people’s morality, social responsibility, and cultural standards shape what (dis)appears on screen.

Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World

This work offers new understandings of reportage’s dialectical relationship with its readership by evoking sympathetic identifications with personal contemplations of place, hearth, and senses of belonging.

Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility

Huang traces the emergence and mediation of what she calls urban horror—a sociopolitical public affect that exceeds comprehension and provides the grounds for possible future revolutionary dissent.

Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity

The book explores how television and online dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects.

Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia
Drawing on extensive interviews with television industry professionals and audiences across China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, the book uses popular lifestyle television as a tool to help us understand emergent forms of identity, sociality, and capitalist modernity in Asia.

Meditative Dance Theatre in Contemporary TaiwanU-Theatre, Legend Lin Dance Theatre, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, and the Eastern Body Aesthetics
The book reveals how native traditions have inspired the formation of these contemporary dances.

Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

This book reveals the complex and at times surprising ways in which Chinese theater artists and technicians of the 20th  century envisioned and enacted their own revolutions through the materiality of the theater apparatus.

Transforming Tradition: The Reform of Chinese Theater in the 1950s and Early 1960s

This book offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional theater conducted in the 1950s and ’60s, and is based on a decade’s worth of exhaustive research of official archival documents, wide-ranging interviews, and contemporaneous publications, most of which have never previously been referenced in scholarly research.

Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform: Performance Practice and Debate in the Mao Era

This book explores the unique dynamics between official discourse, local politics, performance practice, and audience reception that emerged under the pressures of highly politicized cultural reform as well as the off-stage, lived impact of rapid policy change on individuals and troupes obscured by the public record.

Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre: Intellectuals, Amateurs, and Cultural Entrepreneurs, 1910s–1940s
Man He demonstrates how the formation of modern Chinese theatre challenges dominant understandings of modernism and brings China to the center of discussions on transnational modernities and world theatres.

Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore
This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of city-based performing arts collaboration and city-to-city performance networks across East- and Southeast Asia and beyond.

Transnational Chinese Theatres: Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
The book investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. 

Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China
Through an extensive critique of theories of modernism and the avant-garde, the author reassesses the meanings, functions and socio-historical significance of this work in non-Western contexts by proposing a new theoretical construct—the pop avant-garde—and exploring new ways to understand and conceptualize aesthetic practices beyond Euro-American cultures and critical discourses.

Uncrossing the Borders: Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism

The book analyzes how national, cultural, and ethnic borders are inevitably gendered and incite violence against women in the name of the nation.