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"This book delves into the Chinese literary translation landscape over the last century, spanning critical historical periods such as the Cultural Revolution in the greater China region. Contributors from all around the world approach this theme from various angles, providing an overview of translation phenomena at critical historical moments, identifying the trends of translation and publication, uncovering translation norms of important works, elucidating the relationship between translators and other agents, articulating the interaction between texts and readers, and in short, disclosing the nature of literary migration from Chinese into English. This volume aims at benefiting both academics of translation studies from a dominantly Anglophone culture and researchers in the greater China region. Chinese scholars of translation studies will not only find in this volume a dedicated reference book, they will also find the contrast, confluence and communication/conference between the research by local academics and their global colleagues potentially stimulating, inspiring, and ultimately transformative"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: What's in a Name?: Second-generation Mainlander Writing as a Genre
• 1. Constructing the Mainlander: Self, Other, and Homeland in Chu Tien-hsin's Everlasting ( ) and Yuan Chiung-chiung's This Love, This Life ( )
• 2. Seeking a New Identity: Su Wei-chen's Leaving Tongfang ( ) and Chu Tien-hsin's "In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound" (
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• 3. In Quest of the Absent Mainlander Father: Family, History, and Mainlander Identity in Hao Yu-hsiang's The Inn ( ) and Lo Yi-chin's The Moon Clan ( )
• 4. Inventing a Taiwanized Juancun: Lai Sheng-chuan and Wang Wei-chung's The Village ( )
• 5. Happily Ever After?: Homecoming and Mainlander Identity in Chiang Hsiao-yun's Peach Blossom Well ( )
• Conclusion and Epilogue: "Mainlander" as an Identity of In-betweenness.
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This book examines literary representations of mainlander identity articulated by Taiwan's second-generation mainlander writers, who share the common feature of emotional ambivalence between Taiwan and China. Closely analyzing literary narratives of Chinese civil war migrants and their descendants in Taiwan, a group referred to as "mainlanders" (waishengren), this book demonstrates that these Chinese migrants' ideas of "China" and "Chineseness" have adapted through time with their gradual settlement in the host land. Drawing upon theories of Sinophone Studies and memory studies, this book argues that during the three decades in which Taiwan moved away from the Kuomintang's authoritarian rule to a democratic society, mainlander identity was narrated as a transformation from a diasporic Chinese identity to a more fluid and elusive Sinophone identity. Characterized by the features of cultural hybridity and emotional in-betweenness, mainlander identity in the eight works explored contests the existing Sinocentric discourse of Chineseness. An important contribution to the current research on Taiwan's identity politics, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, Chinese migration, and Taiwanese literature as well as Chinese literature in general.
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• Becoming "Self-Reliant"
• Laughter as Social Corrective
• Wearing the Nation
• Political Ideology and Postcolonial Vision
• Political Activism
• The League of Light

"On Our Own Strength examines the political activities of the most influential intellectual movement in interwar French-occupied Vietnam. The far-reaching work of the Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tự Lực Văn Đoàn) included applied design, urban reform, fashion, literature, journalism, and cartoons; its work was deeply political in both form and intent. The Group drew upon a wide range of global intellectual currents and practices to build an enlightened public that would one day serve as the basis of a modern Vietnamese nation. Its nationalist vision sought a nonviolent middle path between colonialism and anticolonial struggle, advocating a process of gradual decolonization that ultimately ended in Vietnamese autonomy. This form of cosmopolitan nationalism proved tremendously popular among ordinary Vietnamese and necessarily shaped local politics, influencing the political agenda of even rival groups such as the newly revived Indochinese Communist Party (ICP). On Our Own Strength shows how the Group's vision shaped the ways ICP positioned itself and sought popular support in the years leading up to the August Revolution and beyond. In later years, the party attempted to erase the Group's early influence on national politics, banning their writings and casting them as little more than bourgeois literary figures. In recovering the Group's unique response to the world around them, this book bridges the areas of political, cultural, and intellectual history, drawing them together into a rich narrative of Vietnamese nation-building from the bottom-up within a larger global context. Martina Thucnhi Nguyen offers a powerful model for the field of Vietnamese studies as it continues to move beyond simplistic and political narratives of its most tumultuous period. Groundbreaking in perception, her book engages broadly with global history, European history, and imperial studies to explore colonialism's hybrid cultural and political forms. She examines how the Self-Reliant Literary Group weighed in on everything from women's fashion and public housing to the major political ideologies of the era, in a unique style that mixed French-inflected ideas with Vietnamese norms and forms. As a deep case study of important figures on the Vietnamese moderate left, On Our Own Strength provides an injection of color and nuance into a history that is often too monochromatic"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part 1: Mainland China
• 1. Allegorizing History: Realism and Fantasy in Mo Yan's Fictional China
• 2. Unattainable Maturity: Yu Hua's Cries in the Drizzle as an Anti-Bildungsroman
• 3. Frankenstein vs. Dracula: Romanticisms and the Ideologies of Poetry in Contemporary China
• 4. Fanhua, Global Modernism, and the Art of Detachment
• Part 2: Border Regions
• 5. Wolf Totem: An Allegory of the Future
• 6. Writing the Motherland(s) on Their Borders: Kim Hak-ch'o l and His Cultural Criticism of Maoist China
• 7. Keeping to the Margins: Macau Literature and a Pre-postcolonial "Poetics of Insignificance"
• 8. Explaining "Graphs" and Analyzing "Characters": Zhang Guixing's Novels and Sinophone Literature's Cultural Imaginings and Representational Strategies
• Part 3: The Global Chinese Diaspora
• 9. Tales Out of School: Campus Fiction from Taiwan
• 10. The Practice of Annotation and Translation in Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen Mysteries
• 11. From "Chinese Diaspora" to "Sinospore": Multispecies Chineseness and Transmemory in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl
• 12. Xiaolu Guo's I Am China: On Copulas and Copulation.
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Through an analysis of a wide array of contemporary Chinese literature from inside and outside of China, this volume considers some of the ways in which China and Chineseness are understood and imagined. Using the central theme of the way in which literature has the potential to both reinforce and to undermine a national imaginary, the volume contains chapters offering new perspectives on well-known authors, from Jin Yucheng to Nobel Prize winning Mo Yan, as well as chapters focusing on authors rarely included in discussions of contemporary Chinese literature, such as the expatriate authors Larissa Lai and Xiaolu Guo. The volume is complemented by chapters covering more marginalized literary figures throughout history, such as Macau-born poet Yiling, the Malaysian-born novelist Zhang Guixing, and the ethnically Korean author Kim Hak-ch'ol. Invested in issues ranging from identity and representation, to translation and grammar, it is one of the few publications of its kind devoting comparable attention to authors from Mainland China, authors from Manchuria, Macau, and Taiwan, and throughout the global Chinese diaspora. Reading China Against the Grain: Imagining Communities is a rich resource of literary criticism for students and scholars of Chinese studies, sinophone studies, and comparative literature.
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• 1. Scripting Japan
• 2. Graphic Play as a Social Act: Indexicality and Orthographic Variation
• 3. Scripted Speech and Scripted Speakers: Katakana and Non-Native Japanese
• 4. Scripted Voices: Contrasted Identities and Contrasting Standards
• 5. Script Choice and Pronoun Choice: Indexical Fields in Interaction
• 6. Using Katakana like an Oyaji: Script Variation and Authorial Identity
• 7. The Social Lives of Japanese Scripts.
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Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions of how language variants influence interpretation of language acts/users have focused on variation in speech. But it is important to remember that specific ways of representing a language are also often perceived as linked to specific social actors. Nowhere is this fact more relevant than in written Japanese, where a complex history has created a situation where authors can represent any sentence element in three distinct scripts. This monograph provides the first investigation into the ways Japanese authors and their readers engage with this potential for script variation as a social language practice, looking at how purely script-based language choices reflect social ideologies, become linked to language users, and influence the total meaning created by language acts. Throughout the text, analysis of data from multiple studies examines how Japanese language users' experiences with the script variation all around them influence how they engage with, produce, and understand both orthographic variation and major social divides, ultimately evidencing that even the avoidance of variation can become a socially significant act in Japan.
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• List of Figures Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Introduction: "Turkish Literature as World Literature"? What Is in a Preposition? Burcu Alkan (University of Manchester, UK) and Cimen Gunay-Erkol (OEzyegin University, Turkey) PART I Breathing Turkish in the World Stage
• 1. The Entangled History of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Modern Turkish Literature Fatih Altug (Sehir University, Turkey)
• 2. Translation, Transcription, and the Making of World Literature: On Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Scriptworlds Etienne E. Charriere (Bilkent University, Turkey)
• 3. Translating Yunus Emre, Translating the Self, Translating Islam: Zafer Senocak's Turkish-German Path to Modernity Joseph Twist (University College Dublin, Ireland) PART II Turkish Literature in Transnational Waters
• 4. World Literature as Performance: Turkish and British Women's Writing in Transcultural Dialogue at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Peter Cherry (Bilkent University, Turkey)
• 5. "The Living Link between India and Turkey": Halide Edib on the Subcontinent Anirudha Dhanawade (Independent Scholar) and Sima Imsir (Sehir University, Turkey)
• 6. Nazim Hikmet's Reception as World Poet Mediha Goebenli (Yeditepe University, Turkey)
• 7. The Internationalist Left and World Literature: The Case of Nazim Hikmet in Greece Kenan Behzat Sharpe (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
• 8. The Influence of Nazim Hikmet on Arab Poetry Mehmet Hakki Sucin (Gazi University, Turkey) PART III Contemporary Forms and Cosmopolitanism
• 9. World Literary Refractions: Orhan Pamuk and Juan Goytisolo Basak Candar (Appalachian State University, USA)
• 10. Teaching The Museum of Innocence in Arts and Design Context Irmak Ertuna Howison (Columbus College of Arts and Design, USA)
• 11. Elif Safak and Her Fiction: Cultural Commodities of the Global Capital Simla Dogangun (Dogus University, Turkey)
• 12. For/Against the World: Literary Prizes and Political Culture in the "New Turkey" Kaitlin Staudt (University of Oxford, UK) Notes on Contributors Index.
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Essays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary literature open the debate on the place of Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of the multilingual cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman literary scene are complemented by examples of cross-generational intertextual encounters. The renowned poet Nazim Hikmet is studied from a variety of angles, while contemporary and popular writers such as Orhan Pamuk and Elif Safak are contextualized. Turkish Literature as World Literature not only fills a significant lacuna in world literary studies but also draws a composite historical, political, and cultural portrait of Turkey in its relations with the broader world.
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"Cantonese is spoken by an estimated 73 million people worldwide. It remains hugely influential and a source of great pride-especially for its speakers in Hong Kong, where it flourishes as the predominant language and so sets Hong Kong apart linguistically from all of mainland China. The ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, the first and most authoritative reference of its kind to be published in the last forty years, comprises about 15,000 lexical entries that are unique to the colloquial Cantonese language as it is spoken and written in Hong Kong today. Author Robert S. Bauer, a renowned lexicographer and authority on Cantonese, has utilized language documentation resources to the fullest extent by gathering material firsthand from dictionaries, glossaries, and grammars; newspapers and magazines; government records; cartoons and comic books; film and television; websites; and native speakers striding the sidewalks of Hong Kong to capture concretely contemporary Cantonese. In addition to the Introduction, which presents an exhaustive description and analysis of Hong Kong Cantonese, this dictionary's special features include: alphabetical ordering of the lexical entries by their Jyut Ping romanized Cantonese pronunciations; parts of speech; cross-referencing with semantically related lexical items; variant pronunciations and written forms in Chinese characters and English letters; explanatory notes on social status and usage (literal, figurative, slang, jargon, humorous, obscene, obsolete, etc.); information on sociocultural, historical, and political aspects; and example sentences showing lexical usage in the context of spoken Cantonese"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1: Introduction (Esther Mukewa Lisanza and Leonard Muaka).-
• SECTION 1: Language and Education.-
• Chapter 2: 21st Century North Africa: Nationalism, Globalization and the Struggle for Tamazight Language (Ali Alalou).-
• Chapter 3: Appropriation of Orature for Pedagogy by Early Yoruba Christians (Damola Adesina and Sola Olorunyomi).-
• Chapter 4: Swahili Learning in the United States: What Does it Mean? (Esther Mukewa Lisanza).-
• Chapter 5: Learning that Brings Joy in an African Language Class: The Power of Reflection and Service Learning (Dainess Maganda).-
• Chapter 6: Linguistic Commodification and Africa's Linguistic Identities: Creating a Nexus! (Leonard Muaka).-
• SECTION 2: Language and Literatures.-
• Chapter 7: Voicing the Silenced Through African Tongues: An Examination of Moolaade and Tumaini (Rose Sau Lugano).-
• Chapter 8: Racism and Identity crisis of a Muslim immigrant in Ahmed's Mhanga Nafsi Yangu (Mohamed Mwamzandi).-
• Chapter 9: An Examination of Okot P' Bitek's Song of Lawino as a Mega Metaphor for the African Indigenous Languages (Martha Michieka).-
• Chapter 10: Black-Islamic Feminism in 21st Century Senegalese Women's Pop Songs (Samba Camara).-
• Chapter 11: Conclusion (Leonard Muaka and Esther Mukewa Lisanza).
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This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond. Boldly positioning African languages as key resources in the 21st century, chapters focus on themes such as language revolt by marginalized groups at grassroots level, the experience of American students learning African languages, female empowerment through the use of African languages in music, film and literary works, and immigration issues. The contributions are written by scholars of language, literature, education and linguistics, and the book will be of interest to students and scholars in these and related areas. .
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• Dedication and Acknowledgments Introductory Remarks
• Book One: Learning pursued . . . Book Two: Exerting political authority . . . Book Three: Eight rows of dancers . . . Book Four: Surrounded by the humane . . . Book Five: Gongye Chang is wived . . . Book Six: Our Yong here . . . Book Seven: I do not innovate . . . Book Eight: Taibo's virtue . . . Book Nine: Rarely did Confucius speak . . . Book Ten: Home in his locale . . . Book Eleven: Those who first entered . . . Book Twelve: Yan Yuan asked about Ren . . . Book Thirteen: Zilu asked about governing . . . Book Fourteen: Xian asked about shame . . . Book Fifteen: Lord Ling asked about marshaling troops . . . Book Sixteen: The Jisun clan prepares to attack . . . Book Seventeen: Yang Huo sought a meeting . . . Book Eighteen: Weizi quit his office . . . Book Nineteen: Zizhang said . . . Book Twenty: Yao hath said . . .
• Appendix A: Terms and Titles Appendix B: A Timeline for Confucius's Life Selected Bibliography.
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A fresh translation of one of the most recognized texts of the premodern world: The Analects is a must-read for those interested in China's past, present, and future. This new translation by renowned East Asian scholar Moss Roberts offers a fresh interpretation of this classic work, sharpening and clarifying Confucius's positions on ethics, politics, and social organization. While no new edition of The Analects will wholly transform our understanding of Confucius's teachings, Roberts's translation attends to the many nuances in the text that are often overlooked, allowing readers a richer understanding of Confucius' historic and heroic attempt to restore order and morality to government. This edition features a critical introduction by the translator as well as notes on key terms and historical figures, a topical index, and suggestions for further reading in recent English and Chinese scholarship to extend the rich contextual background of the translation. This ambitious new edition of The Analects will enhance the understanding of specialists and newcomers to Confucius alike.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviation & Illustrations Introduction Literary Metaphor, A Package Deal
• Chapter 1: Bow-wielding Aristocrats of Zhou The Bow in Warfare and Sports The Bow in Zhou Ritual Tradition Bow Narratives & Poetry
• Chapter 2: Ritual Archers in the Analects Confucius and the Bow The Competition of Gentlemen (An 3.7) Hitting the Target is not the Main Thing (An 3.16) Straight as an Arrow (An 15.16)
• Chapter 3: Sharp Shooters in Mencius Mencius and Archery in Early Warring States The Gentleman as Sharp Shooter (M 2A.7 & 5B.1) Teaching the Way as Archery Training (M 6A.20 & 7A.41) Moral Failure as Faulty Aiming (M 6A.9)
• Chapter 4: Fine Bows and Distant Targets in Xunzi Xunzi and Archery in Late Warring States Transforming Nature: Fashioning Bows from Twisted Wood Paragons of Learning: Undividedness and Not Missing a Shot Visions of Government: The State Needs Scholars as Much as Archers Concluding Remarks Bibliography About the Author.
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Archery Metaphor and Ritual in Early Confucian Texts explores the significance of archery as ritual practice and image source in classical Confucian texts. Archery was one of the six traditional arts of China, the foremost military skill, a tool for education, and above all, an important custom of the rulers and aristocrats of the early dynasties. Rina Marie Camus analyzes passages inspired by archery in the texts of the Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi in relation to the shifting social and historical conditions of the late Zhou dynasty, the troubled times of early followers of the ruist master Confucius. Camus posits that archery imagery is recurrent and touches on fundamental themes of literature; ritual archers in the Analects, sharp shooters in Mencius, and the fashioning of exquisite bows and arrows in Xunzi represent the gentleman, pursuit of ren, and self-cultivation. Furthermore, Camus argues that not only is archery an important Confucian metaphor, it also proves the cognitive value of literary metaphors-more than linguistic ornamentation, metaphoric utterances have features and resonances that disclose their speakers' saliencies of thought.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction. Genres of Cold War Theory: Postcolonial Studies and African Literary Criticism Part I. African Literary History and the Cold War
• 1. Pens and Guns: Literary Autonomy, Artistic Commitment, and Secret Sponsorships
• 2. Aesthetic World-Systems: Mythologies of Modernism and Realism Part II. Reading through a Cold War Lens
• 3. Creating Futures, Producing Theory: Strike, Revolution, and the Morning After
• 4. The Hot Cold War: Rethinking the Global Conflict through Southern Africa Conclusion. From Postcolonial to World Literature Studies: The Continued Relevance of the Cold War Notes Bibliography Index.
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In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembene, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction. Genres of Cold War Theory: Postcolonial Studies and African Literary Criticism Part I. African Literary History and the Cold War
• 1. Pens and Guns: Literary Autonomy, Artistic Commitment, and Secret Sponsorships
• 2. Aesthetic World-Systems: Mythologies of Modernism and Realism Part II. Reading through a Cold War Lens
• 3. Creating Futures, Producing Theory: Strike, Revolution, and the Morning After
• 4. The Hot Cold War: Rethinking the Global Conflict through Southern Africa Conclusion. From Postcolonial to World Literature Studies: The Continued Relevance of the Cold War Notes Bibliography Index.
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In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembene, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production.
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• Introduction / David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
• What does it mean to be an isolating language? The case of Riau Indonesian / David Gil
• The loss of affixation in Cham : contact, internal drift and the limits of linguistic history / Marc Brunelle
• Dual heritage : the story of Riau Indonesian and its relatives / David Gil
• Voice and bare verbs in colloquial Minangkabau / Sophie Crouch
• Javanese undressed : 'peripheral' dialects in typological perspective / Thomas J. Conners
• Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual? / Alexander Elias
• From Lamaholot to Alorese : morphological loss in adult language contact / Marian Klamer
• Double agent, double cross? Or how a suffix changes nature in an isolating language : dór in Tetun Dili / Catharina Williams-van Klinken and John Hajek
• The origins of isolating word structure in eastern Timor / Antoinette Schapper
• Becoming Austronesian : mechanisms of language dispersal across southern Island Southeast Asia and the collapse of Austronesian morphosyntax / Mark Donohue and Tim Denham
• Concluding reflections / John McWhorter

Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages examined in this volume include Cham, Minangkabau, colloquial Malay/Indonesian and Javanese, Lio, Alorese, and Tetun Dili. The main purpose of this volume is to address the general question of how and why languages become isolating, by examination of a number of competing hypotheses. While some view morphological loss as a natural process, others argue that the development of isolating word structure is typically driven by language contact through various mechanisms such as creolization, metatypy, and Sprachbund effects. This volume should be of interest not only to Austronesianists and historians of Insular Southeast Asia, but also to grammarians, typologists, historical linguists, creolists, and specialists in language contact.
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The Best China, an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the Best Chinese Tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong Kong and the diaspora, ranging across the past hundred and seventy years, records the intellectual ferment that has always characterised the city since its founding in 1842, sometimes restless and questioning, sometimes meditative and lyrical, always civilised, and buoyed by an all-pervasive and indomitable spirit of freedom.
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"Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations. On another hot summer's day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless"-- Amazon

• Acknowledgments Introduction-Ecomemories: The Tasks of the Translators Notes on Style
• 1. From Nomad Songs Ayinuer Maowuliti
• 2. Patterns of the Sun Bamo Qubumo
• 3. Four Generations of Va Women Burao Yilu
• 4. Eternal Spirits Cen Xianqing
• 5. Herbs Living in the Body Chen Danling
• 6. Kangnalikan the Little Reindeer Dekeli
• 7. Eji's Buckwheat Field Han Jinghui
• 8. Cat Tragedies Lei Zhifen
• 9. Bitter Greens Ma Jinlian
• 10. Wild Horses Maidina Seyiti
• 11. Snow Lotus Mao Mei
• 12. Qinghai Naye
• 13. A Houseful of Birds Nuryla Qiziqan
• 14. We Have Surpassed the Bears Nuryla Qiziqan
• 15. Daliangpo: Egg, Water and Milk Patigul
• 16. Dalema's Sacred Tree Sana
• 17. Mokuqin the Cow Su Hua
• 18. Shujuan the Black Bear Ye Guangcen
• 19. In Love with the Gen River Ye Mei
• 20. From Huorili River, Huorili Mountain Yilan
• 21. When Petals Fall Off Flowers Zhao Yan
• 22. From Womanly Crops Zuo Zhongmei About the Authors About the Translators Index.
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The stories, prose and poems in this anthology offer readers a unique and generous array of women's experiences in China. In a world that is rapidly modernizing, these writings attempt to reconcile with the ever-changing people, plants, beasts and environment. After five years of painstaking collection and translation, the authors present these stories of strength and sadness, defiance and resilience, urban and village life, from the days of the cultural revolution to the present. Whether a house full of hawks and eagles, a stubborn cow, or a defiant elderly couple sabotaging a lumber operation, these stories express powerful visions of the earth interwoven with human memory.
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• Part I Linguistic Preliminaries
• Chapter 1 Foundational concepts
• Chapter 2 What is writing?
• Chapter 3 What kinds of writing systems are there?
• Chapter 4 Pinyin tutorial
• Part II Writing Chinese
• Chapter 5 The Chinese speech
• Chapter 6 Written Chinese
• Chapter 7 The Chinese writing system
• Chapter 8 Demythifying the Chinese script
• Part III Borrowing the Chinese writing system
• Chapter 9 Chinese characters in Asia: An overview
• Chapter 10 Writing Korean
• Chapter 11 Writing Japanese
• Chapter 12 Writing Vietnamese
• Part IV Reforming the Chinese script
• Chapter 13 Phonetic writing before pinyin
• Chapter 14 Pinyin
• Chapter 15 Simplification of Chinese characters
• Chapter 16 Writing and technology in modern China
• Part V Identity and gender in writing Chinese
• Chapter 17 Handwriting and personhood
• Chapter 18 Sexism in the Chinese writing system
• Chapter 19 Nushu: Women's script
• Chapter 20 Script choice in writing Japanese
• Part VI Chinese Characters in art and literature
• Chapter 21 Chinese calligraphy
• Chapter 22 A calligraphy workshop
• Chapter 23 Modern calligraphy in China
• Chapter 24 Chinese Characters in Avant-garde art
• Chapter 25 Chinese Characters and Western Modernist poetry.
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The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective integrates a diverse range of disciplinary approaches in examining how the Chinese script represents and actively shapes personal and social identities in and beyond Asia. It is an ideal read for students and scholars interested in a broad and culturally rich introduction to research on the Chinese writing system. It can also serve as the main text of an undergraduate course on the subject. Key features of this volume include: Insights from studies of the Chinese writing system in linguistics, script reform and technology, gender, identity, literature, and the visual arts; Examples embedded in inquiries of the cultural history and contemporary society of Asia; Rigorous yet accessible discussions of complex concepts and phenomena that assume no prior knowledge of Asian languages or linguistics; Supplementary multimedia materials and resources, including instructional support, available online. .
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• Chapter One: Emai, Edoid, Benue Congo Chapter Two: Class Marking in Benue Congo Chapter Three: Class Marking in Edoid Chapter Four: Class Marking in Emai Chapter Five: Agreement Marking in Emai Chapter Six: Class Marking on Emai Pronouns Chapter Seven: Nominalization of Emai Verb Stems Chapter Eight: Class Marking on Emai Compounds Chapter Nine: Ideophone Class Marking and Contact in Emai Chapter Ten: Retention, Reduction and Transformation.
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Class Marking in Emai: Retention, Reduction, and Transformation of Inflectional Resources examines the retention, reduction, and transformation of inflectional resources pertaining to noun class in Emai, an Edoid language of south-central Nigeria. In the larger context of Benue Congo studies, in which some members of West Benue Congo are characterized by non-inflection and radical whereas classic Bantu and many of its East Benue Congo relatives show a non-analytic, agglutinative nature. Schaefer and Egbokhare demonstrate that in contrast to its Bantu relations, Emai retains form class prefixes on a relatively small group of nouns that distribute across eleven declension sets. Prefix addition rather than prefix alternation arises when ideophonic adverbials become syntactically displaced due to information structure and when Emai borrows lexical items from other languages. Reduction is evident in two primary domains: prefixes that alternate to express form class and grammatical number, and gender classes. Finally, transformation is evident in tonal, nominal and pronominal domains. Putting Emai and its noun class system into a broader cultural and archaeological context of historical language change, this book explores what it means to be a Benue Congo language with a reduced inflectional system.
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