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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 minor-. pean dominance, whereas Asia, for which ity literature in China is situated at the inter-. "the sea is without significance," was limited sections between ethnicities and languages. by its land-locked status ( Lectures 196). The Mongols, Manchu, Tibetans, and many other.
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Howard Chiang. Pioneered by Shu-mei Shih, the “Sinophone” is an amended analytic category and a long-overdue alternative to the discourses of “Chinese” and “Chinese diaspora” that have traditionally defined Chinese studies. In her path-breaking book Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articu-lations across the Pacific (2007), Shih ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and ...
Sino-Xenic or Sinoxenic pronunciations are regular systems for reading Chinese characters in Japan, Korea and Vietnam, originating in medieval times and the source of large-scale borrowings of Chinese words into the Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese languages, none of which are genetically related to Chinese.
