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Chinese Diasporic Writing and Culture
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781041369707
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 23 2026
Pages: 135
Language: English
This book explores Chinese diasporic literature and culture as an art of betweenness--of thresholds, border crossings, and many tongues. Spanning America, Britain, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and Canada, it traces how writers of Chinese descent have shaped a distinctive literary tradition beyond China's borders.
The volume ranges across poetry, fiction, memoir, and theatre, examining diverse expressions of diasporic experience. Chapters explore diasporic ballads, Chinese-language writing from Singapore, nineteenth-century pidgin writing by Chinese miners in colonial Australia, and the work of Hong Kong women poets in Britain. The collection also analyzes contemporary Chinatown narratives, diasporic poetry, and theatrical explorations of identity and power. An interview with a prominent diasporic writer and an afterword on diaspora as translation round out the volume. Probing identity, home, and translation, the collection illuminates the shifting forms of diasporic life and the inventive voices that make Chinese diasporic writing one of world literature's generative currents. It offers fresh perspectives on how displacement, multilingualism, and cultural hybridity shape literary expression across generations and geographies.
This collection is essential reading for students, scholars and researchers in comparative literature, diaspora studies, Asian American studies, postcolonial literature, cultural studies, and world literature. It will appeal to researchers exploring transnational identity, migration narratives, multilingual poetics, and the global dimensions of contemporary literature.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
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