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Sinographies : writing China /

The essays in this thought-provoking volume investigate ideas of China and Chineseness by means of a broad range of texts, languages, and contexts that surround what the editors call the various written Chinas through history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hayot, Eric, 1972- (Editor ), Saussy, Haun, 1960- (Editor ), Yao, Steven G., 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chineseness: a prehistory of its future / Eric Hayot
  • Reading and difference: image, allegory, and the invention of Chinese / Christopher Bush
  • Impressions de Chine; or, how to translate from a nonexistent original / Haun Saussy
  • Untranslation theory: the Nestorian stele and the Jesuit illustration of China / Timothy Billings
  • China, India, and the empire of commerce in Milton's Paradise lost / Walter S.H. Lim
  • "Beyond the bounds of truth": cultural translation and William Chambers's Chinese garden / David Porter
  • Tom Dooley and the Cold War American revision of "Indochina" / Dannielle Glassmeyer
  • "Torture-and loving care-in China": captivity and the fiction of oriental despotism / Timothy Kendall
  • Boundary crossings: fieldwork, the hidden self, and the invisible spirit / Lucien Miller
  • Museifying Formosa: George Mackay's From far Formosa / Henk Vynckier
  • Signifying on China: African-American literary theory and Tibetan discourse / Steven J. Venturino
  • Transplantation and modernity: the Chinese/American poems of Angel Island / Steven G. Yao
  • Western Journeys of Journey to the west / Carlos Rojoas
  • Seminal dispersal, fecal retention, and related narrative matters: Eileen Chang's tale of roses in the problematic of modern writing / Rey Chow.