Tag: Chineseness
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#MLA15 Sinophone Scholars! Must-have book praised by world’s top Sinologists!
When a book is included in the series of the world-renowned Sinologist Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) and praised by top Sinophone scholars David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University), Shu-mei Shih (UCLA), and Quah Sy Ren (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), it is not surprising (but still very gratifying!) when it is praised in a journal review…
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Cambria Press Book Review: MCLC lauds Rethinking Chineseness for being a “well-written and researched” book!
Cambria Press congratulates E. K. Tan on the glowing review of his book in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) by Dr. Karen Thornber (Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University). The book review lauds E. K. Tan’s interdisciplinary Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World because it is a “well-written and researched” book that…
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Cambria Press Sinophone World Series Reception: Speech by Victor Mair on Sinophone Series Titles and Sinophone Series Authors EK Tan and David Schneider
WATCH THE THIRD SEGMENT OF THE Cambria Press Sinophone World Series RECEPTION! This follows the earlier speeches by Toni Tan and Shu-mei Shih and his earlier discussion about Cambria Press), Professor Victor Mair continues his speech, introducing the new titles for the Cambria Sinophone World Series as well as two authors who are present at the reception–EK…
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Distinction between Sinophone and Sinosphere by Victor H. Mair
Professor Victor H. Mair recently engaged in a thought-provoking discussion of the distinction between Sinophone and Sinophere on the Language Log. He said “I’ve been in the thick of the Sinophone revolution and have mentioned it several times on Language Log (e.g., here), but now I’ve become acquainted with another new term, ‘Sinosphere,’ and wonder how they are…