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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).Academic writers often use the term Sinophone in two definitions: either specifically "Chinese-speaking populations where it is a minority language, excluding Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan" or generally "Chinese-speaking ...
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Sinophone studies underscores issues and controversies pertaining to multiple identities, ethnicities, languages, and cultures in contrast to the singular and all-consuming “obsession with China.”¹ The Sinophone departs and distinguishes itself from such an obsession, as well as the dominant discourse of Chineseness, and maintains its own ...
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May 1, 2014 · The recent emergence of the promising yet problematic field of Sinophone studies is a stimulating development in Chinese studies. With this volume, Sinophone studies appears to have ascended from an individual's guerrilla fight against a Chinese “regime of authenticity” to a concerted field-building campaign.1 Besides being a valuable sourcebook introducing fundamental ideas and major ...
A Critical Reader. This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential ...
Mar 23, 2021 · Abstract Sinophone studies has improved the visibility of a range of Chinese-language cultural products and is expanding into a transnational and multilingual academic enterprise. With firm acknowledgement of the pragmatic benefits the Sinophone has brought (particularly to Anglophone and Taiwanese academia), this paper reflects on some of the problems embedded in the underlying premises and ...
Sinophone literature, a term coined by Shu-mei Shih in 2004, describes (per Shih) 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 ...
