Anglicizing Chineseness and resisting self-Orientalism: A contrapuntal reading of Chinese writing in English
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Published online on September 02, 2025
Abstract
Literature, Critique, and Empire Today, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the understudied phenomenon of Chinese writers’ engagement with the Anglophone literary world against the backdrop of globalization. Drawing on Edward Said’s contrapuntal theory of reading, this article looks at how Chinese writers ...
This article examines the understudied phenomenon of Chinese writers’ engagement with the Anglophone literary world against the backdrop of globalization. Drawing on Edward Said’s contrapuntal theory of reading, this article looks at how Chinese writers ...