Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema
Zhen Zhang
- Title
- Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema
- Subtitle
- Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsroman
- Price
- € 141,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789463720793
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 17 - 06 - 2025
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Categories
- Cultural Studies
- East Asia and North East Asia
- Language Studies
- Literary Theory, Criticism, and History
- South East Asia
- Transnational and Global Studies
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
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Acknowledgements
Note on Romanizations and Translations
Introduction
SECTION I: The Global Sixties and Leftist Activism
1 The Socialist Bildungsroman and Global Youth: Wang Meng and Jack Kerouac Wendy Larson
2 Growing Up in an Age of Turbulence: The Bildungsromane of Young Hong Kong Writers in the Sixties Mary Shuk-han Wong
3 Abandoning Iowa’s Modernism: Wan Kin-lau Renounces His Bildung in the Cold War Era Mung Ting Chung
SECTION II. Afterlives and Unstable Repositionings
4 Mapping and Contesting the Notion of Sinophone: The Coming of Age of Global Chinese Literature Sheldon Lu
5 The Coming of Age of Hong Kong: Dung Kai-cheung’s Celestial Creations and the Works of Man: Vividness and Veracity Enoch, Yee-lok Tam
6 Coming of Age and Learning to Live (with Ghosts) in Borneo’s Rainforest Alison M. Groppe
SECTION III. Screening Urban Precarity
7 Little Pinks, Shamate Kids, and the Involuted Generation: A Coming-of-Age Portrait of China’s Post-’90s Generation Kiu-wai Chu
8 Sentimentality and the Capitalization of Humanity: On Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo Pheng Cheah
9 Years of the Yearning Youth: Growth, Flows, and the Dilemma of Maturity in Hong Kong Coming-of-Age Films Fiona Y. W. Law
SECTION IV. The Ecological and the Posthuman
10 Spectral Mappings: Coming of Age in Su Tong’s Shadow of the Hunter Andrea Riemenschnitter
11 Coming of Age in Post-urban Hong Kong: An Ecocritical Approach to Land-writing and Land-filming Winnie L. M. Yee
12 Becoming a Cyborg: Female Coming of Age in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide Hua Li
Complete Bibliography
Index Keywords
Contributors
Note on Romanizations and Translations
Introduction
SECTION I: The Global Sixties and Leftist Activism
1 The Socialist Bildungsroman and Global Youth: Wang Meng and Jack Kerouac Wendy Larson
2 Growing Up in an Age of Turbulence: The Bildungsromane of Young Hong Kong Writers in the Sixties Mary Shuk-han Wong
3 Abandoning Iowa’s Modernism: Wan Kin-lau Renounces His Bildung in the Cold War Era Mung Ting Chung
SECTION II. Afterlives and Unstable Repositionings
4 Mapping and Contesting the Notion of Sinophone: The Coming of Age of Global Chinese Literature Sheldon Lu
5 The Coming of Age of Hong Kong: Dung Kai-cheung’s Celestial Creations and the Works of Man: Vividness and Veracity Enoch, Yee-lok Tam
6 Coming of Age and Learning to Live (with Ghosts) in Borneo’s Rainforest Alison M. Groppe
SECTION III. Screening Urban Precarity
7 Little Pinks, Shamate Kids, and the Involuted Generation: A Coming-of-Age Portrait of China’s Post-’90s Generation Kiu-wai Chu
8 Sentimentality and the Capitalization of Humanity: On Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo Pheng Cheah
9 Years of the Yearning Youth: Growth, Flows, and the Dilemma of Maturity in Hong Kong Coming-of-Age Films Fiona Y. W. Law
SECTION IV. The Ecological and the Posthuman
10 Spectral Mappings: Coming of Age in Su Tong’s Shadow of the Hunter Andrea Riemenschnitter
11 Coming of Age in Post-urban Hong Kong: An Ecocritical Approach to Land-writing and Land-filming Winnie L. M. Yee
12 Becoming a Cyborg: Female Coming of Age in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide Hua Li
Complete Bibliography
Index Keywords
Contributors
Reviews and Features
"This volume investigates the Chinese Bildungsroman from the global sixties to the precarious present, and from intensely humanist dreams to dark visions of the end of the Anthropocene. Drawing on an exciting range of literary and cinematic perspectives on what it means to come of age in the Sinosphere, the contributors to this wide-ranging book explore adolescence as both a privately vivid time of life and a potent force for systemic change."
—Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, Oxford University
"A significant contribution to Sinophone and comparative studies, this interdisciplinary volume powerfully illustrates how Bildungsroman and coming-of-age narratives across literature and film confront historical trauma, ideological upheaval, environmental degradation, and global precarity. It offers a compelling reflection on adolescence as a site of resistance, remembrance, and reinvention—shedding new light on the culture and politics of growing up in a fractured, interconnected world."
—Weijie Song, Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, Rutgers University
—Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, Oxford University
"A significant contribution to Sinophone and comparative studies, this interdisciplinary volume powerfully illustrates how Bildungsroman and coming-of-age narratives across literature and film confront historical trauma, ideological upheaval, environmental degradation, and global precarity. It offers a compelling reflection on adolescence as a site of resistance, remembrance, and reinvention—shedding new light on the culture and politics of growing up in a fractured, interconnected world."
—Weijie Song, Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, Rutgers University
Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema
Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsroman
With the inclusion of twelve original articles by established and emerging international scholars, this volume offers critical reading of literary and cinematic texts produced in China and Sinophone communities between the 1950s and 2010s. The articles portray the lineage and mutations of the Chinese Bildungsroman, providing insights into the tensions between individual and society; nation and the world; and the multiple social, ecological, and virtual realities of recent decades. Concerned with how coming-of-age narratives have persistently returned and evolved over time, the book addresses themes such as family and social change; gender, class, and generational divides, local/global politics, and the ecological and posthuman turns in Chinese/Sinophone culture. It offers a fresh look on how the transnational and transgenerational journeys of Bildungsroman and coming-of-age narratives continuously transform and reinvigorate generic conventions, to explore adolescence as a formative social force and aesthetic experience in Chinese/Sinophone literature and film.
Editors
Andrea Riemenschnitter
Andrea Riemenschnitter is professor em. of Modern Chinese Language and Literature, University of Zurich. Her most recent book is Sinophone Utopias. Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream (2023, co-ed.). She has published in Archiv Orientalni, AS, ICCC, Interventions, JMLC, MCLC, Monumenta Serica, etc.
Kiu-wai Chu
Kiu-wai Chu is Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities and Chinese Studies at Nanyang Technological University. He is a National Humanities Center Fellow 2022-23. His research focuses on environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and contemporary cinema and visual art in China and broader Asia.
Mung Ting Chung
Mung Ting Chung is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include Hong Kong literature, Sinophone studies, and the cultural Cold War. Her first monograph, Writing Beyond Borders: Hong Kong Literary Production in the Early Cold War Era (tentative title), will be published by Brill.
