The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature

In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global p...

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In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global perspective on Chinese literary studies beyond the traditional national literature paradigm and its recent critique by Sinophone studies. In addition to a critical mapping of the domains of world literature, Sinophone literature, and world literature in Chinese to delineate the nuanced differences of these three disciplines, the book addresses the issues of translation, genre, and the impact of media and technology on our understanding of “literature” and “literary prestige.” It also provides critical studies of the complicated ways in which Chinese and Sinophone literatures are translated, received, and reinvested across various genres and media, and thus circulate as world literature. The issues taken up by the contributors to this volume promise fruitful polemical interventions in the studies of world literature from the vantage point of Chinese and Sinophone literatures.

Kuei-fen Chiu is chair professor of Taiwan literature and transnational cultural studies at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. She is the co-author of New Chinese-Language Documentaries: Ethics, Subject and Place (2015) and co-editor of Taiwan Cinema, International Reception, and Social Change (2017).

Yingjin Zhang is distinguished professor of comparative literature at...

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Kuei-fen Chiu is chair professor of Taiwan literature and transnational cultural studies at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. She is the co-author of New Chinese-Language Documentaries: Ethics, Subject and Place (2015) and co-editor of Taiwan Cinema, International Reception, and Social Change (2017).

Yingjin Zhang is distinguished professor of comparative literature at University of California, San Diego, as well as visiting chair professor of humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is the author of Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China (2010) and co-editor of Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (2020).

List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors viii
Introduction: Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature 1 - Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang
Part I. Conceptualization and Methods
1. Chinese Literature, Translation, and World Literature 25 - Zhang Longxi
2. Locations of China in World Literature and World Cinema 40 - Yingjin Zhang
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List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors viii
Introduction: Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature 1 - Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang
Part I. Conceptualization and Methods
1. Chinese Literature, Translation, and World Literature 25 - Zhang Longxi
2. Locations of China in World Literature and World Cinema 40 - Yingjin Zhang
3. Comparison as Relation: From World History to World Literature 63 - Shu-mei Shih
Part II. Translation Circuits: Intra-Asia, Transpacific, and the Global
4. Intra-Asian Reading; or, How Lu Xun Enters into a World Literature 83 - Satoru Hashimoto
5. World-Literary Hospitality: China, Latin America, Translation 103 - Andrea Bachner
6. The Worlding of Chinese Science Fiction: A Global Genre and Its Negotiations as World Literature 122 - Mingwei Song
Part III. Genre Matters: The Novel, Poetry, and Children’s Literature
7. Space, Place, and Distance: Gao Xingjian, Mo Yan, and the Novel in World Literature 145 - Wendy Larson
8. Memesis and Contemporary Chinese Poetry: A Distributed View on World Literature 164 - Tong King Lee
9. Taiwanese Picturebooks and Children’s Literature as World Literature 186 - Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Part IV: Literary Lives on Transmedia and the Internet
10. From Writing to Roaming: World Literature and the Literary World of Black and Blue 203 - Michel Hockx
11. World Literature in an Age of Digital Technologies: Digital Archive, Wikipedia, and Goodreads.com 217 - Kuei-fen Chiu
Glossary 237
Index 243
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