Seminar in Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone Literature
Spring 2006
David Der-wei Wang
1. Feb 2：Introduction
Sinophone Literature: The Precursors
郁達夫，老舍，林語堂，張愛玲
2. Feb 9: Exile, Expatriotism, and Diaspora
Zhong Lihe, 鍾理和，〈原鄉人〉
Nieh Hualing，聶華苓，《桑青與桃紅》(excerpts)
Bai Xianyong，白先勇，〈芝加哥之死〉、〈謫仙記〉
*Wei-ming Tu, "The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese
Today"
*Ian Ang, "Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of
Diasporic
Paradigm"
*Shu-mei Shih, "Sinophone Articulations"
3. Feb 16: The Island and the Mainland
Yesi 也斯，〈島和大陸〉
Liu Daren 劉大任，〈且林市果〉
Luo Yijun 駱以軍 《遠方》(excerpts)
*Rey Chow: " Introduction: On Chineseness as a Problem"
*Rey Chow: "Things, Common Places, Passages of the Port City: On Hong
Kong and
Hong Kong Writer Leung Ping-kwan"
4. Feb 23: The Politics of Nostalgia
Chen Yingzhen 陳映真，〈歸鄉〉
Li Yongping 李永平，〈望鄉〉
Ping Lu 平路，〈玉米田之死〉
*林建國, "為什馬華文學？"
*Wang Gungwu, The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest
for
Autonomy
*Stuart Hall, "Cultural Identity and Diaspora"
5. Mar 2: Phantom Cartography
Zhu Tianxin 朱天心: 〈古都〉
Zhang Guixing 張貴興，《猴杯》(excerpts)
Dong Qizhang 董啟章: 《地圖集》(excerpts)
*Letty Chen, "Mapping Identity in a Post-colonial City: On Chu
T'ien-hsin's Ancient
Capital"
*Salman Rushidie, "Imaginary Homeland"
6. March 9 ：Hetero-polis
Xixi 西西，〈浮城志異〉，《美麗大廈》(excerpts)
Li Yongping 李永平, 《吉陵春秋》（〈日頭雨〉）
Ai Bei 艾蓓， 〈人的最後一個神話〉
*Stephen Chan, "The Cultural Imaginary of A City: Reading Hong Kong
through
Xixi"
*Gilles Deleuze, "Minor Literature"
7. March 16：Relics of Memory
Li Zishu 黎紫書，〈七日食遺〉
Huang Jinshu 黃錦樹,〈魚骸〉
Ping Lu 平路， 〈百齡箋〉
*Robert Young, "Hybridity and Diaspora"
8. March 23：The Art of Redemption
Bai Xianyong 白先勇，〈遊園驚夢〉
Li Yu 李渝，〈江行初雪〉
Wu He 舞鶴,〈拾骨〉
* Yvonne Chang, Literary Culture in Taiwan, chapter 4
* 王德威，〈無岸之河的渡引者：李渝論〉
9. March 30 Spring Break
10. April 6：Haunted by Eileen Chang
Shi Shuqing 施叔青，〈公元1894香港的女人〉
Huang Biyun 黃碧雲，〈雙城月〉
Li Tianbao 李天葆，〈檳榔艷〉
(Eileen Chang張愛玲，〈沉香屑：第一爐香〉)
*Ackbar Abbas: "Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong"
*Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenridge, and Dipesh
Charkrabarty, "Cosmopolitanisms"
11. April 15：
Meeting with the Authors
12. April 20：A Disavowal of Exile
Huang Jinshu 黃錦樹，〈死在南方〉
(郁達夫：〈沉淪〉
Guo Songfen 郭松棻，〈雪盲〉
(魯迅：〈狂人日記〉
*舞鶴："不何為誰而寫：在紐約訪談郭松棻"
*Edward Said, "Intellectual Exile: Expatriates and Marginals"
13. April 27：Surviving Diaspora
Hong Ying 虹影，《K》（excerpts）
(Ling Shuhua, 淩叔華, Ancient Melodies )
Gao Xingjian 高行健，《一個人的聖經》（excerpts）
*Yingjin Zhang, "Cultural Translation between the World and the
Chinese: The
Problematics in Positioning Nobel Laureate
Gao Xingjian"
*Leo Lee, "Across Translingual Landscape: Crisis and Innovation in
Contemporary
Cultures"
Cultures"
14. May 4: Review
Theoretical Frameworks
Raymond Williams,
"Structure of Feeling" from Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1977)
"Knowable Communities" from The Country and the City (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1973)
"The Analysis of Culture" from The Long Revolution (Westport, Conn: Greenwood
Press, 1975)
(might also want to consult his gloss on a number of terms, including
culture, community, and literature in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and
Society)
Stuart Hall
"Culture, Community, Nation" from Cultural Studies: 7.3 (1993)
"New Ethnicities" from Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies,
ed by David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (NY: Routledge, 1996)
"Cultural Identity and Diaspora" from Diaspora and Visual Culture:
Representing Africans and Jews, ed. Nicholas Mirzoefff (NY: Routledge, 2000)
"The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity" from Culture,
Globalization and the World System, ed. Anthony King (Minn: University of
Minnesota Press, 1997)
Ian Ang
"On Not Speaking Chinese: Postmodern Ethnicity and the Politics of Diaspora"
from New Formations 24 (Winter, 1994)
"Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm"
from boundary 2: 25.3 (autumn, 1998)
Arjun Appadurai
"Here and Now" from Modernity at Large: Dimensions of Globalization (Minn:
University of Minnesota, 1996)
Rey Chow
"Introduction: On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem" from boundary 2: 25.3
(autumn, 1998)
James Clifford
"Diaspora," Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
(Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1997)
Salman Rushdie
"Imaginary Homelands" and "Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist" from
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 (NY: Penguin, 1992)
Other Useful Secondary Material:
James Clifford, "Diasporas" in his Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late
Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press,1997) (A
theoretically engaging study of the subject; influential for a number of
thinkers, including Ang and Chow)
Paul Gilroy, "The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity" in his The
Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1993) (Seminal study; foundational for other studies that
uses the imagery of the ocean as a counter history, a la "transpacific"
"asia-pacific")
Adam Mckeown, "Chinese Migration in Global Perspective" in his Chinese
Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001) (Excellent study of the topic;
notion of network as a mediation between the concerns of the local and the
global)
Aihwa Ong and Donald Nonini, eds. Undergounded Empires: The Cultural Politics
of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (NY: Routledge, 1997) (Very Uneven
collection of essays in a decidedly different vein than Tu's collection; the
somewhat mechanical essay "Toward a Cultural Politics of Diaspora and
Transnationalism" by the editors is particularly influential among scholars
with ties to Asian American Studies)
Emma Teng, "What's' Chinese' in Chinese Diasporic Literature?" from
Conteseted Modernities in Chinese Literature, ed. Charles Laughlin (NY:
Palgrave MacMillian, 2005) (Not convinced that the question is fully
answered; takes on a more contemporary look on the subject; notable for the
absence of writers who write in Chinese)
Tu Wei-ming, ed. The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994) (Essays by Tu, L. Ling-Chi Wang,
and Leo Lee are all addressed throughout the decade, culminating in the
essays by Chow, Ang and many others)
Wang Gungwu, The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for
Autonomy Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2000) (A very concise
introduction to the topic, summarizing his major writings on the subject)
Edward Said, "Intellectual Exile: Expatriates and Marginals" from his
Represenatations of the Intellectual (NY: Pantheon Books, 1994) (Continues
his rumination on the topic of exile, particularly useful for introducing the
idea of exile as a "metaphysical condition"; also see his earlier essay on
Exile as well as "traveling theory)
Robert J. C. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Thoery, Culture, and Race
(NY: Routledge, 1995)
