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.

Translating Sexuality: International Queer Popular Culture in the Sinophone World
This collection examines the translation of international queer media and popular culture in China, offering insights into how queer media travels across international borders and interacts with mainstream media flows and local cultures.

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.

Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture

The book situates Taiwanese horror within broader cinematic and transmedia phenomena, such as the influence of J-Horror, the global boom of streaming platforms, and the intersections between queer representation and genre cinema.

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.

Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947-1986
Drawing on extensive archival research, the book covers several neglected topics in the study of Hong Kong cinema, such as the evolving generic landscape of the crime film prior to the 1980s, the influence of colonial film censorship on the genre, and the prominence and contestation of "realism" in the local history of the crime film.

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.

Hong Kong Horror Cinema

The book offers new insights into the history of Hong Kong horror through case studies of classic films and through a detailed consideration of their aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact in both the global and domestic market.

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.

Rétro Taiwan: Le temps retrouvé dans le cinéma sinophone contemporain

The author synthesizes the major works that have studied this movement, more complex than just mere nostalgia, and seeks to identify what Taiwanese, Hong Kong or Chinese people try to express based on detailed analyzes of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang or Tsai Ming-Liang's movies.

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.

The Hangover after the Handover: Places, Things, and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong
The book offers lessons to learn from Hong Kong by opening up manifold postcolonial, translocal, and planetary perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia shared by Hong Kong and other regions.

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.

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
According to Abbas, Hong Kong’s peculiar lack of identity is due to its status as “not so much a place as a space of transit,” whose residents think of themselves as transients and migrants on their way from China to somewhere else.

A Counter Literary History of Taiwan in the New Millennium: Taiwan in Contexts, Volume I
The book offers a richly textured portrait of the forces that continue to shape Taiwan’s past, present, and future.

A Counter Literary History of Taiwan in the New Millennium: Taiwan and Life, Volume II
The book reveals how contemporary Taiwan has become a uniquely fertile site for exploring some of the most pressing cultural questions of the twenty-first century.

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.

Rays of the Searching Sun: The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu
This study of Yang Mu’s poetics examines the writer’s literary choices from a cross-cultural perspective, highlighting the relationship between issues of international concern and modern cultural theories

Letteratura taiwanese. Un profilo storico
This volume attempts for the first time to summarize Taiwan's literary developments from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, presenting its cultural context, literary movements, disputes, and key authors.

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.