Tag: Nanyang
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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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AAS 2013 Highlight: Cambria Sinophone World Series (Editor: Victor H. Mair)
Cambria Press will be showcasing five new books for the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Professor Victor H. Mair at the 2013 Asian Studies Association (AAS) annual conference in San Diego next week! These new books, which were published by Cambria Press between August 2012 and January 2013, are: Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities…
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MLA 2013: Shu-mei Shih and E. K. Tan
Among the scholars praising Professor E. K. Tan’s new book, Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World, for its contribution to Sinophone studies is Professor Shu-mei Shih (UCLA) who has been widely credited for coining the term Sinophone and is on the editorial board of the Cambria Sinophone World Series. Professor Shih has praised…
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MLA 2013 New Book: Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World by E. K. Tan
Cambria Press author Professor E. K. Tan’s new book, Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World, was published just in for the 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston. The book has been praised by eminent scholars including Professor David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University) and Professor Quah Sy Ren (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) for furthering…
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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…