Chinese Diasporic Writers and Artists: Reimagining Identity and the Self Beyond and Without China [Hardcover]

Introduction. Chinese Writers and Artists in Diaspora: Constructing the Self Beyond and Without China? 1. Diasporic Ground, National Parallels and Continental Divides: Resituating Chinese North American Identities in the 21st Century? 2. Aesthetic Synergy in the Art of Tyrus Wong? 3. Domestic Life as Allegory of Migration in Ha Jins Waiting? 4. Folding and Unfolding: Evolving Cultural Identity in Shen Weis Modern Dance? 5. The Home(land)less Self in Gao Xingjian? 6. Dis/re-location of the Self in the Film Comrades: Almost a Love Story? 7. Hong Kong Diasporans in Clara Laws Films Autumn Moon and Floating Life? 8. The Female Self and the Mirror in Xiaolu Guos Two Feature Films? 9. Hong Ying: The Disowned Daughter Writing in Diaspora? 10. Writing in Diaspora: Eileen Changs Self Writing? 11. The Language of Survival: Linguistic Migrations in the Age of Globalization? 12. Twentieth-Century Chinese Prisonscape and Its French Exophone Articulation in Fran?ois Cheng and Dai Sijie? 13. Mirrored Self: Identity Construction in Sinophone Literature in Thailand?????????????????

This book presents new and original essays that capture the enigmatic and intriguing personal and imagined worlds of Chinese writers and artists in diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This book presents new and original essays that capture the enigmatic and intriguing personal and imagined worlds of Chinese writers and artists in diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Including chapters on artist-writers such as Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, Ha Jin and Hong Ying, Tyrus Wong, and Shen Wei, the book explores personal cross-cultural experiences through their literary and other artistic works, reflecting on their cultural identity, their native home, and their new home, the past and the present. By writing, filming, and painting about their diaspora/diasporic experience, they are writing about their selves and the lÓ)