Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet
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Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet

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Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet

About this book

This book examines the paradox of China and the United States' literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific. In the 21 st century where tension between the two superpowers escalates, a gaping lacuna lies in the cultural sphere of Sino-Anglo comparative cultures. By focusing on a "Sinophone-Anglophone" relationship rather than a "China-US" one, Sheng-mei Ma eschews realpolitik, focusing on the two languages and the cross-cultural spheres where, contrary to Kipling's twain, East and West forever meet, like a repetition compulsion bordering on neurosis over the self and its cultural other. Indeed, the coupling of the two—duet-cum-duel—is so predictable that each seems attracted to and repulsed by its dark half, semblable, (in)compatible for their shared larger-than-life-ness.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I Sino . . .
  6. Chapter 1 Sino-Anglo-Euro Wolf Fan(g)s from Jiang Rong to Annaud
  7. Chapter 2 To Anglicize and Angelize the Rape of Nanking
  8. Chapter 3 Asiatic Aspie: Millennial (ab)Use of Asperger’s Syndrome
  9. Chapter 4 Turandot: The Chinese Box by Puccini, Zeffirelli, Zhang, and Chen
  10. Chapter 5 Speaking (of the) Dragon: Slain by the West, Ridden by the East
  11. Chapter 6 Asian Inscrewtability in Hollywood
  12. Part II . . . Anglo
  13. Chapter 7 Gene Luen Yang’s Graphic Bi-Bye to ChinaTown
  14. Chapter 8 Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest in Chang-Rae Lee and Bich Minh Nguyen
  15. Chapter 9 On Sci-Fi’s Good China, Bad China: Maureen F. McHugh and Chang-Rae Lee
  16. Chapter 10 Fed (Up) with Gyoza and Vodka: Oldboy’s Forbidden Fruit of Alterity
  17. Chapter 11 Noodle Western: Asian Gunslingers, Swordplayers, Filmmakers Gone West
  18. Chapter 12 Millennial Taiwan Food Films: Naming and Epicurean Cure
  19. Notes to Chapter 1
  20. Notes to Chapter 2
  21. Notes to Chapter 3
  22. Notes to Chapter 4
  23. Notes to Chapter 5
  24. Notes to Chapter 6
  25. Notes to Chapter 7
  26. Notes to Chapter 8
  27. Notes to Chapter 9
  28. Notes to Chapter 10
  29. Notes to Chapter 11
  30. Notes to Chapter 12
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index