Sinographies : writing China / Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao, editors.
The essays in this thought-provoking volume investigate ideas of China and Chineseness by means of a broad range of texts, languages, and contexts that surround what the editors call the various written Chinas through history.
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Table of Contents:
- Chineseness: a prehistory of its future / Eric Hayot
- Reading and difference: image, allegory, and the invention of Chinese / Christopher Bush
- Impressions de Chine; or, how to translate from a nonexistent original / Haun Saussy
- Untranslation theory: the Nestorian stele and the Jesuit illustration of China / Timothy Billings
- China, India, and the empire of commerce in Milton's Paradise lost / Walter S.H. Lim
- "Beyond the bounds of truth": cultural translation and William Chambers's Chinese garden / David Porter
- Tom Dooley and the Cold War American revision of "Indochina" / Dannielle Glassmeyer
- "Torture-and loving care-in China": captivity and the fiction of oriental despotism / Timothy Kendall
- Boundary crossings: fieldwork, the hidden self, and the invisible spirit / Lucien Miller
- Museifying Formosa: George Mackay's From far Formosa / Henk Vynckier
- Signifying on China: African-American literary theory and Tibetan discourse / Steven J. Venturino
- Transplantation and modernity: the Chinese/American poems of Angel Island / Steven G. Yao
- Western Journeys of Journey to the west / Carlos Rojoas
- Seminal dispersal, fecal retention, and related narrative matters: Eileen Chang's tale of roses in the problematic of modern writing / Rey Chow.