Sinographies
Subtitle: writing China
By: Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao, editors.
Contributors: Hayot, Eric, 1972-; Saussy, Haun, 1960-; Yao, Steven G., 1965-
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780816647248; 9780816647255
Subjects: Chinese characters; Chinese language -- Writing -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chineseness: a prehistory of its future / Eric Hayot; title: Reading and difference: image, allegory, and the invention of Chinese / Christopher Bush; title: Impressions de Chine; or, how to translate from a nonexistent original / Haun Saussy; title: Untranslation theory: the Nestorian stele and the Jesuit illustration of China / Timothy Billings; title: China, India, and the empire of commerce in Milton's Paradise lost / Walter S.H. Lim; title: "Beyond the bounds of truth": cultural translation and William Chambers's Chinese garden / David Porter; title: Tom Dooley and the Cold War American revision of "Indochina" / Dannielle Glassmeyer; title: "Torture-and loving care-in China": captivity and the fiction of oriental despotism / Timothy Kendall; title: Boundary crossings: fieldwork, the hidden self, and the invisible spirit / Lucien Miller; title: Museifying Formosa: George Mackay's From far Formosa / Henk Vynckier; title: Signifying on China: African-American literary theory and Tibetan discourse / Steven J. Venturino; title: Transplantation and modernity: the Chinese/American poems of Angel Island / Steven G. Yao; title: Western Journeys of Journey to the west / Carlos Rojoas; title: Seminal dispersal, fecal retention, and related narrative matters: Eileen Chang's tale of roses in the problematic of modern writing / Rey Chow.