Journal article
The China Quarterly
The China quarterly (London), Vol.194, p.449
06/01/2008
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107277
Abstract
[...]there are also a few omissions Gao Xingjians pre-exile work, for instance, is only fleetingly mentioned in a footnote and the cultural aftermath of some recent historical watersheds such as the Tiananmen events of 1989 are skipped over. [...]the reader may occasionally long for more in-depth examination of certain phenomena. John Christopher Hamm, Weijie Song and Jianmei Liu all point out that the presence of fatherless protagonists suggests deep anxiety over identity and home amongst diasporic Chinese. [...]Jin often sets his fiction during eras when Han Chinese experienced both interaction and conflict with other ethnicities. The essays apply different interpretive strategies to these core issues, with dynamic and stimulating results. [...]Hamm presents a close reading of a single novel and concludes that Hong Kong is the true place to preserve authentic Chinese culture. In book form it is only 162 pages long, including a bibliography of 36 pages, yet Hershatter has produced a comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of the major English-language literature on women, gender, family, marriage and sexuality in China in the past century, including work translated from Chinese.
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- Title
- The China Quarterly
- Creators
- Szu-Chi Chen
- Publication Details
- The China quarterly (London), Vol.194, p.449
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge
- Identifiers
- 99900547074801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article