Beyond Cultural and National Identities: Current Re-evaluation of the Kominka Literature from Taiwan’s Japanese Period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem 1
5. Narrative Subjectivity and the Production of Social Space in Chinese Reportage 26
6. Three Hungry Women 48
7. Two Discourses on Colonialism: Huang Guliu and Eileen Chang on Hong Kong of the Forties 78
8. Beyond Cultural and National Identities: Current Re-evaluation of the Kominka Literature from Taiwan’s Japanese Period 99
9. Wang Wenxing and the ‘‘Loss’’ of China 127
10. If China Can Say No, Can China Make Movies? Or, Do Movies Make China? Rethinking National Cinema and National Agency 159
11. Look Who’s Talking: The Politics of Orality in Transitional Hong Kong Mass Culture 181
12. Bondage in Time: Footbinding and Fashion Theory 199
13. No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky 227
14. International Theory and the Transnational Critic: China in the Age of Multiculturalism 251
15. Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm 281
16. Afterword: The Possibilities of Abandonment 301
17. Index 317
18. Contributors 325