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Sinophone, which means "Chinese-speaking", typically refers to an individual who speaks at least one variety of Chinese (that is, one of the Sinitic languages).
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, [1] [2] is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. [3] . Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. [4] . The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Sinitic languages.
Sinophone studies - conceived as the study of Sinitic-language cultures on the mar-gins of geopolitical nation-states and their hegemonic productions- locates its objects of attention at the conjuncture of Chinas in-ternal colonialism and Sinophone communi-ties everywhere immigrants from China have settled. Sinophone studies disrupts the chain
Sinophone literature, a term coined by Shu-mei Shih in 2004, denotes Sinitic-language literature written “on the margins of China and Chineseness.”. As an emerging field of inquiry, the Sinophone provides a conceptual alternative to the paradigm of China-based national literary studies; as an organizing category, the Sinophone evinces the ...
This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences.
This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors...
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Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chines...
