Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on Romanization, Characters, and Translation xv
5. Introduction: Southern Crossings: The Covert Globality of Mahua Literature 1
6. CHAPTER ONE Doubly Local: Lin Cantian and the Contrapuntal Genesis of Mahua Novelistic Fiction 31
7. CHAPTER TWO Channeling Exemplarity: Han Suyin’s Bifocal Writing Practice in Malaya 70
8. CHAPTER THREE Cosmopolitan Visions of Drift: Wang Anyi and the Relay of Diasporic Literary Imagination 116
9. CHAPTER FOUR Off-Center Articulations: Li Yongping’s Transregional Literary Production 156
10. Coda: Always the Internal Other: Mahua Literature and the Recognition of Alterity 195
11. Notes 207
12. Bibliography 253
13. Index 281