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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Melody Yunzi LiPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.064kg ISBN: 9781978829343ISBN 10: 1978829345 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 15 December 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Mapping Experiences of De/Reterritorialization: Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal 2 Cartographing Carceral Dystopia in the Mao Era: Yan Geling’s The Criminal Lu Yanshi 3 Affective Mapping of Touristic Diasporic Experience 4 Palimpsestic Map of the American and Chinese Dreams: Contested Sites in Overseas Chinese Immigrant Stories Coda: Charting an Online Chinese Diasporic Literary Map Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""Transpacific Cartographies is particularly refreshing and capacious. Focusing on the 'new immigrants' to the U.S. from China since the 1980s, this book expands the study of Chinese American experience to transnational and translingual negotiations in the dire times of Sinophobia and U.S.-China contention. Carefully engaging Sinophone texts with discourses of diaspora and geocriticism, Li sheds light on the powers of mapping and 'homemaking' with which Chinese diasporic communities navigate being and belonging."" -- Chih-ming Wang * author of Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America * ""Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Melody Li’s focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of “home” from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant."" -- Rob Sean Wilson * author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond *" ""Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, Transpacific Cartographies makes for a particularly meaningful read at a moment of high political tensions between the United States and China... Li’s book will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Chinese, Asian American, and comparative literature."" — Chinese Literature and Thought Today ""Transpacific Cartographies is particularly refreshing and capacious. Focusing on the 'new immigrants' to the U.S. from China since the 1980s, this book expands the study of Chinese American experience to transnational and translingual negotiations in the dire times of Sinophobia and U.S.-China contention. Carefully engaging Sinophone texts with discourses of diaspora and geocriticism, Li sheds light on the powers of mapping and 'homemaking' with which Chinese diasporic communities navigate being and belonging.""— Chih-ming Wang, author of Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America ""Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Melody Li’s focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of “home” from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant.""— Rob Sean Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond """Transpacific Cartographies is particularly refreshing and capacious. Focusing on the 'new immigrants' to the U.S. from China since the 1980s, this book expands the study of Chinese American experience to transnational and translingual negotiations in the dire times of Sinophobia and U.S.-China contention. Carefully engaging Sinophone texts with discourses of diaspora and geocriticism, Li sheds light on the powers of mapping and 'homemaking' with which Chinese diasporic communities navigate being and belonging.""--Chih-ming Wang ""author of Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America"" ""Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People's Republic of China, Melody Li's focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of ""home"" from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant.""--Rob Sean Wilson ""author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond""" """Transpacific Cartographies is particularly refreshing and capacious. Focusing on the 'new immigrants' to the U.S. from China since the 1980s, this book expands the study of Chinese American experience to transnational and translingual negotiations in the dire times of Sinophobia and U.S.-China contention. Carefully engaging Sinophone texts with discourses of diaspora and geocriticism, Li sheds light on the powers of mapping and 'homemaking' with which Chinese diasporic communities navigate being and belonging.""— Chih-ming Wang, author of Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America ""Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Melody Li’s focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of “home” from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant.""— Rob Sean Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond" Author InformationMELODY YUNZI LI is an assistant professor in Chinese studies at the University of Houston, Texas. She is the coeditor of Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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