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This is a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges current discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese with those of China and the Chinese diaspora. Press comments "This is the first book to so thoroughly probe one of the questions that has haunted and continues to haunt Chinese writers: what does it mean to be Chinese? Through analysis of contemporary literary texts from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, Chen sees the literary representation of identity as a spectrum of possibilities ranging from the 3authentic2 (negotiating a cultural identity out of an interaction with traditional culture) to the 3hybrid2 (reveling in plural identities). Within a framework shaped by postmodern and postcolonial theories, Chen shows a keen sensitivity in her reading of literary texts, which include those by writers as diverse as Wang Anyi, Zhu Tianxin and Zhu Tianwen, Dung Kai-cheung, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Gao Xingjian."- Kirk Denton, The Ohio State University 'Letty Chen has done mag

Who reads Writing Chinese : Reshaping Chinese Cultural Identity?

Author

Lingchei Letty Chen

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9786611369613

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Anthropology, Sociology