Modern Chinese Poetry in the Age of the Internet By Heather Inwood How has the Internet transformed Chinese poetry today? How has the democratization of publishing poetry online challenged the traditional gatekeepers, and how has this affected the quality of modern poetry? Heather Inwood explores these questions and reveals how such tectonic shifts have reinforced the […]
Essays
World Literature in Transformation
By Horace Engdahl True “world literature,” according to Nobel committee member Horace Engdahl, will never be a common canon accepted by all, but a field of exchange and exploration. For Engdahl, the Nobel Prize serves as harbinger of such a community of interest across the globe and in the case of the work of its two […]
Introduction: Writerly Self-Knowledge, or When Authors Confess
By Alexa Huang Book reviews put books on our radar screen. Through judicious summaries and reviews of new fictions and scholarly studies, we gain insight into a vast field of knowledge to which we may otherwise be denied access due to all kinds of limitations, including our linguistic repertoire, the limited time we have in our […]
The Difficulty of Difference: Rethinking the Woman Warrior Figure in Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema
By Man-Fung Yip Over the last several decades martial arts have become ingrained in the global cinematic imagination, yet the genre has remained overwhelmingly masculine since the electric presence of Bruce Lee 李小龙 first appeared on the silver screen in the early 1970s. In this essay, University of Oklahoma Professor of Film Studies Man-Fung Yip explores the powerful […]
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