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  1. Off-white
    yellowface and chinglish by Anglo-American culture
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

  2. Narrativas de lo chino en las Américas y la Península Ibérica
  3. Off-white
    yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American culture
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

  4. Representing Chinese-Caucasian romance in twentieth-century Anglophone literature
    Author: Zeng, Shu
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, New York$aBern$aBerlin

    The Chinese Chameleon Revisited -- Staging Chinese Presence in the Early Twentieth Century -- Orientalism and Counterhegemonic Energies -- Unveiling the Harem -- The Politics of Intercultural Representation and the Potentiality of Cultural... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    The Chinese Chameleon Revisited -- Staging Chinese Presence in the Early Twentieth Century -- Orientalism and Counterhegemonic Energies -- Unveiling the Harem -- The Politics of Intercultural Representation and the Potentiality of Cultural Hybridity -- Conclusion. "Against the modern cult for transnational love, this book brings readers to revisit the prolonged anxieties over the mixing of races and the complexities underpinning the literary representation of thwarted Chinese-Caucasian romance in the twentieth century. Moreover, in the current world order where the rise of China has played a significant role and triggered different speculations on various fronts, this book takes readers to embark on a long, exciting journey back to the very beginning of how Westerners perceive China and Chinese people in the thirteenth century and travel across the centuries to the current era-a journey that enables the traveler to feel the pulse of historical moments that have come to influence Sino-Western relations and China's image in the Western mind. Bringing an interesting, original corpus of Anglophone texts (some largely forgotten) into conversation around the vocabularies they deploy to deal with relationships between Chinese and non-Chinese characters, this book help readers to rethink current issues of migration, identity, sexuality, hybridity and diaspora that have taken the present shape under the residual effects of the racial and sexual discourses of the past and that are instrumental to our historical position and trajectory. Therefore, this book is about the past and the present, the East and the West, the Self and the Other, the center and the periphery; but it is more about the temporary, the fluid, the liminal, the in-between"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781433173042
    Subjects: American literature; Interracial couples in literature; Interracial friendship in literature; Interracial marriage in literature; Chinese in literature; Whites in literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature; English literature
    Scope: viii, 214 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references

  5. Representing Chinese-Caucasian romance in twentieth-century Anglophone literature
    Author: Zeng, Shu
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, New York$aBern$aBerlin

    The Chinese Chameleon Revisited -- Staging Chinese Presence in the Early Twentieth Century -- Orientalism and Counterhegemonic Energies -- Unveiling the Harem -- The Politics of Intercultural Representation and the Potentiality of Cultural... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    10 A 129698
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    The Chinese Chameleon Revisited -- Staging Chinese Presence in the Early Twentieth Century -- Orientalism and Counterhegemonic Energies -- Unveiling the Harem -- The Politics of Intercultural Representation and the Potentiality of Cultural Hybridity -- Conclusion. "Against the modern cult for transnational love, this book brings readers to revisit the prolonged anxieties over the mixing of races and the complexities underpinning the literary representation of thwarted Chinese-Caucasian romance in the twentieth century. Moreover, in the current world order where the rise of China has played a significant role and triggered different speculations on various fronts, this book takes readers to embark on a long, exciting journey back to the very beginning of how Westerners perceive China and Chinese people in the thirteenth century and travel across the centuries to the current era-a journey that enables the traveler to feel the pulse of historical moments that have come to influence Sino-Western relations and China's image in the Western mind. Bringing an interesting, original corpus of Anglophone texts (some largely forgotten) into conversation around the vocabularies they deploy to deal with relationships between Chinese and non-Chinese characters, this book help readers to rethink current issues of migration, identity, sexuality, hybridity and diaspora that have taken the present shape under the residual effects of the racial and sexual discourses of the past and that are instrumental to our historical position and trajectory. Therefore, this book is about the past and the present, the East and the West, the Self and the Other, the center and the periphery; but it is more about the temporary, the fluid, the liminal, the in-between"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781433173042
    Subjects: American literature; Interracial couples in literature; Interracial friendship in literature; Interracial marriage in literature; Chinese in literature; Whites in literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature; English literature
    Scope: viii, 214 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references