author: Olivia Khoo asin: 9622098894 binding: Paperback list price: $27.95 USD amazon price: $27.95 USD

The Chinese Exotic examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging from Asia Pacific modernities since the late twentieth century. Through an analysis of cultural artefacts such as films, popular fiction, food and fashion cultures, the book challenges the dominant tendency in contemporary cultural politics to define Chinese femininity from a mainland perspective that furthermore equates it with notions of primitivism. Rather, the book argues for a radical reconfiguration of the concept of exoticism as a frame for understanding these new representations.

asin: 9622097979 binding: Paperback list price: $24.95 USD amazon price: $24.95 USD

Reading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultural studies by examining Chinese transnationalism from a variety of perspectives. In interrogating social practices and literary and film texts which frequently cross natinal borders in imagining Chineseness, the contributors to this volume also challenge received notions of Chinese transnationalism, opening up new perspectives on the topic. The international list of contributors and the wide-ranging subjects they address make Reading Chinese Transnationalisms a unique work in its field.

author: Xinran Xue asin: 1400095646 binding: Paperback list price: $13.95 USD amazon price: $10.32 USD

It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.