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1 sty 2010 · PDF | Tunc, Tanfer Emin and Elisabetta Marino, eds. Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary... | Find, read and cite all the...
In 1870, just as political debate about the need to restrict immigration from China was heating up on the West Coast, Bret Harte inadvertently produced one of the most enduring literary invocations of the Chinese menace – who were at that time the most visible Asian ethnic group in the United States – in a poem entitled “Plain Language ...
3 wrz 2018 · Mulan legend has traveled from Chinese culture to America undergoing the process of cultural filtration. Compared with Mulan in classical Chinese literature, the system of representations behind Mulan in America has undergone variation. But how and why does it vary? And what is the significance of the variation?
3 mar 2011 · American Born Chinese retells the Chinese folk story of the Monkey King in a new light in terms of both its content and format. This graphic novel transforms traditional Chinese folklore and transplants the celebrated character of the Monkey King into a contemporary Chinese American context.
7 paź 2024 · Chinese literature, the body of works written in Chinese, including lyric poetry, historical and didactic writing, drama, and various forms of fiction. Chinese literature is one of the major literary heritages of the world, with an uninterrupted history of more than 3,000 years, dating back at.
Lin Yutang and Amy Tan have both constructed the image of China by means of portraying Chinese women, as well as the employment of language; meanwhile, they also present China from their own perspectives, such as Tan’s stories about ghosts, and Lin’s demonstration of Chinese philosophy.
Robert Spiller's image of the development of American culture and literature as a series of multi-ethnic waves, with each immigrant undergoing a similar cycle. In "The Cycle and the Roots: National Identity in American Literature" (in Toward a New Literary History, 1980) he wrote:
