
Transpacific Cartographies
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"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) "This exploration stands out as a significant contribution to the discourse. . . . Li offers a fresh perspective on the experiences of the Chinese diaspora in recent decades, enriching our understanding of their cultural and social dynamics. . . . Li's book thoughtfully extends the scope of traditional literary and cinematic studies to encompass a diverse array of genres and historical periods." (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)) "A groundbreaking work. . . . Significant for its focus on contemporary Chinese diasporic writers in the United States. This focus fills a gap in Asian American literary studies. . . . A timely contribution towards understanding the China-US relationship and its significant impact on individuals' everyday lives. Li's book urges us to envision a political future that provides a great capacity for homemaking and belonging." (Jingqiu Guan, Journal of Intercultural Studies) "Transpacific Cartographies is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and researchers of Sinophone studies, Asian American studies and literary cartographies, as well as for general readers interested in the Chinese diasporic experience more broadly. What is more, Li's text positions itself as a useful starting point for future comparative studies of how different Asian diasporic groups map their home concepts." (European Journal of American Culture) "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)
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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
Index
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