Chinese stories in a Western context

Author: Wei Jingyi
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: Chinese Stories in Western Context—On the Chinese Cultural Representation in American Chinese English Literature, primarily focuses on the series of novels by American Chinese writer Tan Yingting as the main research object. It places the Chinese representation in American Chinese English literature within the triple context of the history of American Chinese English literature, the history of Chinese Americans in the United States, and American culture, conducting interactive research and cross-cultural examination. It highlights the inherent opposition between such works and Western mainstream hegemonic discourse, as well as the marginal cultural attributes of this literary writing. The analysis explores the unique value of adapting and rewriting classic Chinese literary stories in these works, constructing new Chinese American cultural identities. It elucidates how writers with dual cultural identities living in the West express Chinese American ethnicity and emotions in their literary creations, proposing that cultural persistence is an open, evolving, and constructive process. In the arguments, the author draws on Western cultural theory, postcolonial theory, postmodern writing theory, and feminist critical theory. In terms of firsthand material acquisition and theoretical advancement of the materials, it reaches a new level, representing a more reliable and comprehensive achievement in domestic research on Americanized Chinese English literature.