With a specific focus on Asia, this anthology constitutes an excursion into the state of "postethnicity", which has come to characterise the global culture of our times. It brings together prominent c...
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Questions aspects of cultural politics, including the legacies of European imperialism and colonialism, the media, pedagogy, literature, literacy, sexuality, intellectual labour, the uses and abuses o...
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Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstandi...
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What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining sp...
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Explores the issue of cultural otherness in fiction, film, and other forms. The author argues, what demands to be examined critically is no longer identity politics per se but, more precisely, the ide...
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A collection of essays which use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture. It addresses topics such as 20th-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong ...
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