Writing Chinese

LINGCHEI LETTY CHEN is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature at Washington University, USA.

PART I: THE DEBATE The 'Right' to Copy and the 'Copyright': Questions of Authenticity, Hybridity, and Dis/claiming Chineseness PART II: THE ISSUES Negotiating China's Cultural Authority: Technology of Genealogy and Wang Anyi's Reality and Fiction Whither Taiwan?: Refashioning Cultural Authenticity and Zhu Tianxin's Ancient Captial Hong Kong Androgynous: Embodying Cultural Hybridity and Dung Kai-cheung's Dual Body Chinese American? American Chinese?: Community Building as Subject Making in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey PART III: THE VISION Chinese Diaspora and Transnationality: Envisioning Global Citizen/ship and Gao Xinjian's One Man's Bible Globalizing the Self: Cultural Identity and the Aesthetics of Hybridity in Zhu Tianwen's Notes of a Desolate Man Coda: Cultural Identity on the Flow of Cultural Globalization Bibliography