The Change of Thematic Concerns of Chinese American Literature in the Late 20th Century ········ 1
Chinese American Women Writers’ Search of Matrilineage and the Paradox of Identity
Construction ··············································································································13
A Study on the Motif of “Father-Son” in Homebase and Donald Duk ······································ 29
The Chinatown Narrative in Chinese American Fiction ······················································· 44
“Other-Oriented” and “Inner-Oriented” Narratives: A Comparative Reading of Sui San Fa and
Geling Yan’s “Chinatown” ···························································································· 57
The Pursuit and Deconstruction of Ethnicity: The Identity Politics of Contemporary Chinese
American Writers······································································································· 76
The Representation of History in Chinese American Novels·················································· 85
Cross-Cultural Word Play and Diasporic Identity Construction: Chinese Code-Mixing in Chinese
American Poetry Written in English ·············································································· 101
A Study of the Intertextuality Between Marilyn Chin’s Poetry and Classical Chinese Poems······· 115
The “Bilingual Poetics” of Overseas Chinese Trans-lingual Writings····································· 136
An overview of Chinese American poetry studies: 1988-2018 ··············································· 151
A Chinese Perspective on Chinese American Literary Studies·············································· 163
A Review of Chinese American Literary Studies in the Past Thirty Years································174
The Anti-Essentialist Cultural Stance in Postcolonial Writings············································· 190
Exploring the Origins of Asian American Literary Criticism ··············································· 201
Tracing to the Source of Asian American Sensibility ·························································· 214
On the Formation of Ethnic Critical Paradigms in Asian American Literature: A Focus on the 1970s232
Diversification, Heterogeneity, and Hybridity: Asian American Literary and Cultural Criticism
Reconsidered ············································································································243
The Imagination of Exotic Love in New Immigrant Women Writings···································· 256
“Exotic Love, All the More Unbearable”: A Review of Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love ············· 272
History, Politics, and Interracial Romance: A Review of Maurice Chuck’s Torrent ··················· 277
A Breakthrough in New Immigrant Literature: On Chinese-Canadian Writer Zhang Ling’s “Border-Crossing” Writing ··························································································288
Bibliography ············································································································ 302
Chinese American Women Writers’ Search of Matrilineage and the Paradox of Identity
Construction ··············································································································13
A Study on the Motif of “Father-Son” in Homebase and Donald Duk ······································ 29
The Chinatown Narrative in Chinese American Fiction ······················································· 44
“Other-Oriented” and “Inner-Oriented” Narratives: A Comparative Reading of Sui San Fa and
Geling Yan’s “Chinatown” ···························································································· 57
The Pursuit and Deconstruction of Ethnicity: The Identity Politics of Contemporary Chinese
American Writers······································································································· 76
The Representation of History in Chinese American Novels·················································· 85
Cross-Cultural Word Play and Diasporic Identity Construction: Chinese Code-Mixing in Chinese
American Poetry Written in English ·············································································· 101
A Study of the Intertextuality Between Marilyn Chin’s Poetry and Classical Chinese Poems······· 115
The “Bilingual Poetics” of Overseas Chinese Trans-lingual Writings····································· 136
An overview of Chinese American poetry studies: 1988-2018 ··············································· 151
A Chinese Perspective on Chinese American Literary Studies·············································· 163
A Review of Chinese American Literary Studies in the Past Thirty Years································174
The Anti-Essentialist Cultural Stance in Postcolonial Writings············································· 190
Exploring the Origins of Asian American Literary Criticism ··············································· 201
Tracing to the Source of Asian American Sensibility ·························································· 214
On the Formation of Ethnic Critical Paradigms in Asian American Literature: A Focus on the 1970s232
Diversification, Heterogeneity, and Hybridity: Asian American Literary and Cultural Criticism
Reconsidered ············································································································243
The Imagination of Exotic Love in New Immigrant Women Writings···································· 256
“Exotic Love, All the More Unbearable”: A Review of Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love ············· 272
History, Politics, and Interracial Romance: A Review of Maurice Chuck’s Torrent ··················· 277
A Breakthrough in New Immigrant Literature: On Chinese-Canadian Writer Zhang Ling’s “Border-Crossing” Writing ··························································································288
Bibliography ············································································································ 302
Pu Ruoqian is a professor of the College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Her
research focuses on Chinese/ Asian American Literature and she has published more than 70 articles in
leading journals and 3 monographs by the national publishing house. Her monographs Ethnic Experience
and Cultural Imagination: A Study of the Representative Motifs of Chinese American Fiction(2006), Literary Representation of Diversity and Heterrogeneity: Selected Works of Pu Ruoqian (Chinese Version, 2016), Study of the Paradigms and Theoretical Keywords of Asian American Literary Criticism (2020)
have been regarded as the “desk essential” reference books for Asian/ Chinese American scholars in China. Besides, she co-translated Sau-ling Cynthia Wong’s From Necessity to Extravagance: Reading Asian American Literature (2007), Rao Pengzi’s Studies of Overseas Chinese Literature (2011) and The
Complete Collection of R. S. Chandler’s Short Detective Stories(2015). She is also the contributor to
Greenwood Encyclopedia on Asian American Literature (Ed. Guiyou Huang, Greenwood, 2008) and
Editor-in-chief of over a dozen textbooks for English majors in China.