Anchored by an illustrative analysis of Malaysian Chinese author Ng Kim Chew's 2001 short
story “Kebei”[Inscribed Backs], this introduction lays out some of the central concerns of the …

Rather than attempt to offer a definition of modern Chinese literature or provide a
comprehensive survey of all that the category might entail, this volume instead uses a series …

Through a detailed analysis of Malaysian Chinese author Ng Kim Chew's (Huang Jinshu)
1990 short story “The Disappearance of M,” this chapter examines the relationship between …

Except for two essays, this edited volume is a republication of a special issue in Boundary 2,
25: 3 (1998). It opens with Rey Chow's introduction and ends with Paul Bove's afterword …

Wang Ning has been one of the most productive Chinese comparative and world literature
studies scholars of the past four decades with numerous publications in both Chinese and …

Stanford Professor Ban Wang has written on a wide range of subjects from early Chinese
modernism to contemporary literature and beyond. His work has had a strong influence on …

Through a consideration of the introductions that Yingjin Zhang wrote for the first and final
solo-edited volumes of his career, China in a Polycentric World (1998) and A World History …

In reviewing a work of 1,500 pages within a limit of 1,500 words some stylistic shortcuts are
imperative. Put simply, these two volumes comprise the history of Chinese literature that …

The decline of traditional comparative literature, as famously proclaimed by Spivak in Death
of a Discipline, has paved the way for the emergence of world literature as a captivating field …

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 …