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Sinographies : writing China / Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao, editors.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.Description: xxi, 381 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780816647248 (alk. paper)
  • 0816647240 (alk. paper)
  • 9780816647255 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0816647259 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 495.1/11 22
LOC classification:
  • PL1171 .S56 2008
Other classification:
  • 18.86
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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