Chinese Thirdspace: The Paradox of Moderate Politics, 1946–2020 (Global Chinese Culture)

Arts & Photography

Liu, Jianmei

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Chinese intellectuals have long chafed under the dominance of dualities-the sense that they are trapped between two diametrically opposed forces, with no choice but to pick one side or the other. Over the years, they have been driven into binary debates such as reform versus revolution, tradition versus modernity, the West versus the East, and left versus right. At the same time, a number of key thinkers have sought to transcend the extremes and find middle ground. This book examines how a diverse set of Chinese intellectuals carved out in-between spaces beyond the poles of competing ideologies for greater openness, multiplicity, and pluralism. Reappropriating and rehistoricizing the concept of Thirdspace-theorized by Homi Bhabha and Edward Soja-Jianmei Liu traces how writers and artists, in different times and places, have explored and developed alternatives to either/or dichotomies. Chinese Thirdspace brings together an unexpected group of cases, including Zhang Dongsun's political philosophy, Yin Haiguang's "colorless thought," Jin Yong's martial arts fiction, Liu Zaifu's fragmentary writing, Gao Xingjian's transmedia cine-poems, Xi Xi's hybrid works, Chi Zijian's eulogy of shamanism, Chu Tien-Hsin's various heterotopias, and Chan Koonchuang's speculative political novel, concluding with the controversy over Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary. Their works offer new ways to grapple with the modern Chinese experience, and as Liu shows, they contain alternative possibilities for a future beyond the binary oppositions of our current era. Wide-ranging and theoretically rich, this interdisciplinary book demonstrates the pivotal role of Thirdspace in the intellectual history, politics, philosophy, literature, aesthetics, art, and film of modern China.

About the Author\nMabel Lee, PhD, FAHA, is currently an adjunct professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney where she taught twentieth-century Chinese history and literature, 1966-2000. In the period 1995-2000 her courses included the study of the writer Gao Xingjian who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. She has published numerous essays about Gao Xingjian, as well as translating English editions of his works: two novels Soul Mountain (2000) and One Man's Bible (2002), a short-story collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2004), and two collections of criticism The Case for Literature (2006/2007) and Gao Xingjian's own eponymous book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation (2012). An honorary professor for a number of years at the Open University of Hong Kong, Dr. Lee was recently appointed a distinguished professor in their major research project titled "Chinese Culture in the Global Context."\nLiu Jianmei is Professor of Chinese Literature at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She holds a PhD from Columbia University, an MA from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a BA from Beijing University. She is the author of a number of Chinese-language academic and literary publications, and her English academic books include the following: Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (2016), Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (2003), and coeditor (with Ann Huss) of The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History (2007).

Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics (Cambria Sinophone World)

Literature & Fiction

Lee, Mabel

Cambria Press

This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yong's works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience. Jin Yong is hailed as the most influential martial arts novelist in twentieth-century Chinese literary history. His novels are regarded by readers and critics as "the common language of Chinese around the world" because of their international circulation and various adaptations (film, television serials, comic books, video games). Not only has the public affirmed the popularity and literary value of his novels, but the academic world has finally begun to notice his achievement as well. The significance of this book lies in its interpretation of Jin Yong's novels through the larger lens of twentieth-century Chinese literature. It considers the important theoretical issues arising from such terms as modernity, gender, nationalism, East/West conflict, and high literature versus low culture. The contributors of the articles are all eminent scholars, including famous exiled scholar, philosopher, and writer Liu Zaifu.

The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History

Huss, Ann

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