Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film

Contributors

Contributors Mark Betz is a Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College, University of London. His articles on European cinema and archival practice have appeared in Camera Obscura and The Moving Image, and his book Remapping European Art Cinema is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. He has recently contributed book chapters on art/exploitation cinema marketing and on the academicization of film studies via book publishing. He is currently working on a study of art film distribution in America. Lily Cho is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University ofWestern Ontario in London, Ontario. Her essays on the Chinese head tax in Canada, diaspora studies, and the poetry of Fred Wah appear in Essays on Canadian Writing, the Canadian Review of American Studies (forthcoming), and Culture, Identity, Commodity (Hong Kong University Press, 2005). In collaboration with David Chariandy, she is presently working on a book-length manuscript on diaspora theory. Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University where she teaches in the Departments ofComparative Literature, and Modern Culture and Media. She is the author of numerous titles, including Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991), Writing Diaspora (1993), Primitive Passions (1995), Ethics #er Idealism (1998), and The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit ofCapitalism (2002). Her writings in English have been widely anthologized and translated into vanous ASIan and European languages. A viii Contributors collection ofessays, translated into Italian, was published under the title nSogno di Butterfly: costellazioni postcoloniali in 2004. Her latest book, The Age ifthe World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work, Was published by Duke University Press in Spring, 2006. Petra Fachinger is an Associate Professor in the German Department at Queen's University. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University ofBritish Columbia (thesis title: "Counter-Discursive Strategies in First-W odd Migrant Writing"). Fachinger is the author of Rewriting Germany from the Margins: "Other" German Literature ifthe 1980s and 1990s (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002) as well as several articles on ethnicminority writing in English and in German. Among her primary research interests are German Jewish, Turkish German, Jewish American as well as Asian American literature. She is presently working on a comparative/ contrastive study of German Jewish and Jewish American literature. Philip Holden is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, National University ofSingapore. He is the author ofbooks on Hugh Clifford and Somerset Maugham (Modem Subjects, Colonial Texts [2000] and Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation [1996]) and co-edited the recent Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature (2004) with Richard Ruppel. His essays, largely on Singapore literature and culture, life-writing and (post)colonial modernity, have appeared in journals such as English Studies in Canada, Ariel, Communal/Plural, Biography, Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Victorian Literature and Culture. He is at present working on a project on nationalism, decolonization, and autobiography. Kristjana Gunnars is Professor Emeritus ofEnglish and Creative Writing at the University of Alberta. She is the author of several books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, and her essays and creative works have appeared in numerousjournals and anthologies in Canada, Europe, and the United States, including Silence ifthe Country and Night Train to Nykoping. She has received various provincial awards for her books (McNally Robinson Award, the George Bugnett Award, and the Stephan G. Stephansson Prize), and her book Zero Hour was nominated for the Governor General's Award. Her recent titles are a collection ofstories, Any Day But This (Red Deer Press) and a book of essays on writing, Stranger at the Door (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), both published in the fall of2004. Professor Gunnars has also edited collections of academic essays on Margaret Laurence and Mavis Gallant. Contributors ix Jennifer W. Jay is Professor of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her main publishing activity is in Chinese historiography, as in A Change in Dynasties: Loyalism in Thirteenth Century China (Bellingham, WA: Center for Asian Studies, Western Washington University, 1991). Current projects include Chinese Canadian literature and the social history of eunuchs in imperial China. Laifong Leung is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the Department of East Asian Studies, University ofAlberta. She received her Ph.D. from the University ofBritish Columbia. Her books include Morning Sun: lntewiews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation (1994), A Study of Liu Yong (985...