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Eileen Chang : romancing languages, cultures and genres /

"Eileen Chang (1920-1995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the most popular writers in 1940s Shanghai, but her insistence on writing about individual human relationships and mundane matters rather than revolutionary and political movements mean...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Louie, Kam (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : London : Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan [distributor], 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Eileen Chang : a life of conflicting cultures in China and America / Kam Louie
  • 1. Romancing returnee men : masculinity in "Love in a fallen city" and "Red rose, white rose" / Kam Louie
  • 2. From page to stage : cultural "in-betweenness" in (new) Love in a fallen city / Jessica Tsui Yan Li
  • 3. Eileen Chang and things Japanese / Nicole Huang
  • 4. The ordinary fashion show : Eileen Chang's profane illumination and mnemonic art / Esther M.K. Cheung
  • 5. Betrayal, impersonation, and bilingualism : Eileen Chang's self-translation / Shuang Shen
  • 6. Eileen Chang, Dream of the red chamber, and the Cold War / Xiaojue Wang
  • 7. Eileen Chang and Ang Lee at the movies : the cinematic politics of lust, caution / Gina Marchetti
  • 8. Seduction of a filmic romance : Eileen Chang and Ang Lee / Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
  • 9. "A person of weak affect" : toward an ethics of other in Eileen Chang's Little reunion / Laikwan Pang
  • 10. Romancing rhetoricity and historicity : the representational politics and poetics of Little reunion / Tze-lan Sang
  • 11. Madame White, The book of change, and Eileen Chang : on a poetics of involution and derivation / David Der-wei Wang
  • Afterword / Leo Ou-fan Lee
  • Notes
  • Index.