Tag: Shu-mei Shih
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Victor Mair (Cambria Sinophone World Series Editor) to give Distinguished Lecture at the University of Hong Kong this week
Victor Mair (UPenn professor and Cambria Sinophone World Series Editor) to give Distinguished Lecture at the University of Hong Kong
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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: Welcome Speeches by Toni Tan (Cambria Press) and Shu-mei Shih (UCLA)
WATCH THE FIRST SEGMENT OF THE Cambria Press Sinophone World Series RECEPTION! In this first segment, Toni Tan (Cambria Press) gives the welcomes speech in which she introduces Professor Victor Mair and the editorial board: Ann Huss (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Xiaofei Kang (George Washington University) Jianmei Liu (University of Maryland) Haun Saussy (University…
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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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Launch of Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian’s book, the Rise of Sinophone Studies, and Rethinking Chineseness!
Cambria Press authors, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian and translator Dr. Mabel Lee, will be attending the 2013 MLA conference in Boston for the launch of the new book, Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. The book has been published just in time for the MLA annaul convention. MLA convention attendees will be the…
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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…