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.

Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility
Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and Rancière, 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.

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.