LEADER 03767nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910826603503321 005 20240416153350.0 010 $a0-674-06054-7 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674060548 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081286 035 $a(OCoLC)733294969 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456087 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487501 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12184542 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487501 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10461407 035 $a(PQKB)11012335 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300919 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456087 035 $a(DE-B1597)585455 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674060548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300919 035 $a(OCoLC)1301547742 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081286 100 $a20100504d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSound and script in Chinese diaspora /$fJing Tsu 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05540-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLiterary governance -- Chinese lessons -- Lin Yutang's typewriter (Anglophone) -- Bilingual loyalty, betrayal, and accountability (Anglophone) -- Chen Jitong's "World Literature" and the Republicanism of letters (Francophone) -- The missing script of Taiwan (Taiwanese) -- Look-alikes, bad relations, and spectral genealogies (Chinese Malaysian) -- The elephant in the room (Chinese Malaysian). 330 $aIn this original and interdisciplinary work, Jing Tsu advances the notion of ?literary governance? as a way of understanding literary dynamics and production on multiple scales: local, national, global. ?Literary governance,? like political governance, is an exercise of power, but in a ?softer? way - it begins with language, rather than governments. In a globalizing world characterized by many diasporas competing for recognition, the global Chinese community has increasingly come to feel the necessity of a ?national language,? standardized and privileging its native speakers. As the national language gains power within the diasporic community, members of the diaspora become aware of themselves as a community. Eventually, they move from the internal state of awakened identity to being recognized as a community, and finally exercising power as a community. But this hegemony of the ?national language? is constantly being challenged by different, nonstandard language uses, including various Chinese dialects, multiple registers, contested alphabet usage, and Chinese men and women who write in foreign languages. ?Literary governance? reflects both the consensus-building power and the inherent divisiveness of these debates about language and is useful as a comparative model for thinking about not only Sinophone, Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanophone literatures, but also any literary field that is currently expanding beyond the national. 606 $aChinese literature$zForeign countries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChinese diaspora in literature 606 $aChinese in literature 607 $aChina$xIn literature 615 0$aChinese literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChinese diaspora in literature. 615 0$aChinese in literature. 676 $a895.1/093529951 700 $aTsu$b Jing$01639525 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826603503321 996 $aSound and script in Chinese diaspora$94026020 997 $aUNINA