By Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy
The essays during this thought-provoking quantity examine principles of China and Chineseness by way of a vast diversity of texts, languages, and contexts that encompass what the editors name the “various written Chinas” via historical past. examining discourse of civilization, geography, ethics, ethnicity, writing, and variations approximately China—from in the nation and from outside—this paintings intentionally disrupts the bounds that experience formerly outlined China as an item of study.
Sinographies is determined by a recognize for the facility of texts to form realities either from side to side, to create or foreclose percentages not just of interpretation yet of expertise. To this finish, the essays research subject matters as numerous as colonialism, literary modernism, translation, anime, and Tibet. As an entire, the amount imagines sinography as a brand new methodological method of the examine of China, person who clears unforeseen flooring for brand spanking new types of comparative work.
Contributors: Timothy Billings, Middlebury collage; Christopher Bush, Princeton U; Rey Chow, Brown U; Danielle Glassmeyer, U of Alabama, Birmingham; Timothy Kendall; Walter S. H. Lim, nationwide U of Singapore; Lucien Miller, U of Massachusetts; David Porter, U of Michigan; Carlos Rojas, U of Florida; Steven J. Venturino, Loyola U; Henk Vynckier, Tunghai U, Taiwan.
Eric Hayot is affiliate professor of comparative literature on the Pennsylvania nation University.
Haun Saussy is chicken White Housum Professor of comparative literature at Yale University.
Steven G. Yao is affiliate professor of English at Hamilton College.
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