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Asian Literary Studies
Malaysian Crossings
Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature Cheow Thia Chan
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that Mahua authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20339-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20338-8 2022 320 pages 7 iilus.
GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE
States of Disconnect
The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century Adhira Mangalagiri
States of Disconnect examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to pairing ideas of China and India. Adhira Mangalagiri proposes the concept of “disconnect”: a crisis of transnationalism perceptible in moments when a connection is severed, interrupted, or disavowed.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20569-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20568-9 January 2023 296 pages 8 illus.
Imagining India in Modern China
Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962 Gal Gvili
Gal Gvili examines how Chinese writers’ image of India shaped the making of a new literature and spurred efforts to achieve literary decolonization. She argues that multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections empowered Chinese literary figures to resist Western imperialism and its legacies through novel forms and genres.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20571-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20570-2 2022 264 pages 6 illus. The Culture of Language in Ming China
Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge Nathan Vedal
The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20075-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20074-5 2022 320 pages 19 illus.
The Substance of Fiction
Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775 Sophie Volpp
Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are often signs of fictionality, calling attention to the nature of the relationship between literature and materiality.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19965-0 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19964-3 2022 256 pages 23 illus.
PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS
Made in Censorship
The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film Thomas Chen
Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen examines the surprisingly rich corpus of Tiananmen literature and film produced in mainland China since 1989, contending that censorship does not simply forbid—it also shapes what is created.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20401-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20400-2 2022 240 pages 11 iilus.
The Promise and Peril of Things
Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China Wai-yee Li
Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions—people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found—to tease out the ambiguities of material culture.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20103-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20102-5 2022 360 pages Words from India in the West
A Critical Approach to Select Writings by the Diasporic Indian Litterateurs Edited by Pinaki Roy Foreword by Ashis Sengupta and introduction by Bashabi Fraser
This edited volume critically assesses different aspects of five literary genres—novels, poetry, short-stories, drama, and nonfictional prose— contributed to by the Indian diasporic writers settled principally in North America and Europe.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8382-1718-5 2022 330 pages
