Posts Tagged 'China'

Time and Temporality

A proposed special issue of

Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (FLSC)

Edited by Carlos Rojas

Although considerable attention has been given to the ways in which Chinese literature has used the past to critique the present, there has been comparatively less discussion of literature’s engagement with issues of futurity or with the nature of temporality itself. This special issue of Frontiers will examine shifting understandings of temporality in Chinese literature, including notions of historicity and futurity, as ...

Women, Writing and Visuality in Contemporary China

A proposed special issue of

Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (FLSC)

Edited by Géraldine Fiss and Li Guo

Chinese women writers and filmmakers today contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Rather than perpetuating 20th century discourses concerning women’s emancipation, many contemporary women intellectuals, writers and visual artists are articulating new forms of consciousness and addressing pivotal concerns of our time in provocative, oftentimes ...