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Reconsidering Sinophone Studies, An ‘appropriation’ of his own discussion…
Reconsidering Sinophone Studies
About Sinophone studies
‘the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities on the margins of China and Chineseness’; ‘against diaspora’ or ‘anti-diaspora’; ‘Sinophone as theory/value’ (Shih, p.312)
postloyalism: ' Sinophone as a psychological condition more than an identitarian position' (Wang, p.313)
multifaceted Sinophone Studies
The Significance of the Cold War
“position mainland China as the imagined target”（p.316) :
The changing situation of China (with a particular reference to mainland China) under imperialism and colonialism; 'related to the geopolitics of modern China since the Cold War era'(Wang, p.317); political and financial support of the United States made Taiwan become the cultural center of sinophone communites (p.317)
the binary categorization of overseas Chinese and mainland Chinese/ the antagonism of PRC and ROC would make researchers lose sight of the significance of sinophone cultural products at different stages of the Cold War.
The matrix of multiple Sinocentrisms
(Whose Sinocentrism?)
its genesis in American academia
: first developed in an Anglophone space; ‘a Sinitic brand of popular theories in North America (Wang, p.324)
"the inherent Orientalist logic embedded in area studies" (p.324); "America’s imperial ‘ability to insert itself into a geo-colonial space as the imaginary figure of modernity" (p.325)
its spread to Taiwan
: "the import of Sinophone studies has enabled Taiwanese scholars to challenge Taiwan’s own Sinocentrism in history" (p.325); "Sinophone as a process of literary institutionalisation" (p.326)
An opportunity for Taiwanese scholars to first and foremost examine the issue of ‘Taiwan-centrism’ as ‘the reincarnation of [American] imperialism’ that has secured its superior position in relation to ‘Sinophone’ communities elsewhere (p.327)
its mixed reception in mainland China
: mainland institutions still have reservations about the label ‘Sinophone’ (p.331); a conservative group of mainland scholars, Sinophone studies is interpreted as first and foremost a political, rather than literary or cultural, discourse (p.331)
"mainland academia has had the disciplines of ‘overseas Chinese literature’ and ‘world Chinese literature’ for decades and the paradigms of investigation do not simply stagnate at the nationalist sentiments of ‘Great China-centrism’. " (p.330)
How can Sinophone studies actually change such Sinocentric status quo within mainland Chinese institutions? (p.328)
How to define the practitioners of minority literature in mainland China? How to deal with the relationship between PRC works and non-PRC works?
Adopt assimilationist strategies to ‘become Chinese’ in order to subvert Han-centrism from within.(p.330)
The Future of Sinophone Studies
Main point: "Sinophone studies does not have to be an overly agenda-driven theoretical generalisation that confines memories, imaginations, knowledges, and narratives of lived experiences in a singular, moralist, and hierarchical mode of reading." (p.336)
a.
"balance the ways in which these concepts are applied to primary texts so as to overcome ideological reductionism" (p.333)
b.
share concerns with larger fields to make original theoretical contributions to areas beyond the confines of area studies and ethnic studies and challenge the dominant paradigm of Western theory versus local reality. (p.333)
An ‘appropriation’ of his own discussion on huawen (華文, Chinese-language) literature
(Ng, 314)
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