Asian & Middle Eastern Studies : Publications since January 2023

%% Chen, Yunchuan   
@article{fds376822,
   Author = {Chen, Y},
   Title = {An Experimental Investigation into the Scope Assignment of
             Japanese and Chinese Quantifier-Negation
             Sentences},
   Journal = {Languages},
   Volume = {9},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {111-111},
   Publisher = {MDPI AG},
   Year = {2024},
   Month = {March},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages9030111},
   Abstract = {Quantifier-Negation sentences such as all teachers did not
             use Sandy’s car are known to allow an inverse scope
             interpretation in English. However, there is a lack of
             experimental evidence to determine whether this
             interpretation is allowed in equivalent sentences in
             Japanese and Chinese. To address this issue, this study
             conducted a sentence–picture matching truth value judgment
             experiment in both Japanese and Chinese. The data suggested
             that Japanese Quantifier-Negation sentences do allow inverse
             scope readings, which suggests that the subject may be
             interpreted within the scope of negation. In contrast,
             Chinese Quantifier-Negation sentences prohibit inverse scope
             readings, which is in accordance with the strong scope
             rigidity consistently observed in this language. This paper
             also discussed how to develop a valid experiment for
             investigating scope ambiguities.},
   Doi = {10.3390/languages9030111},
   Key = {fds376822}
}

@article{fds376275,
   Author = {Chen, Y},
   Title = {An experimental approach to the reconstruction of the head
             quantifier phrase in Chinese relative clauses},
   Journal = {Canadian Journal of Linguistics},
   Year = {2024},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2024.6},
   Abstract = {Aoun and Li (2003) argued that whether the head of Chinese
             relative clauses can reconstruct at Logical Form is
             determined by its phrasal category. When the head is a noun
             phrase, it can reconstruct; but when it is a quantifier
             phrase, it cannot. This paper uses a sentence-picture
             matching experiment to investigate this claim. The results
             showed that a quantifier phrase can reconstruct. Thus, we do
             not need to stipulate a noun phrase/quantifier phrase
             distinction for the reconstruction of heads in Chinese
             relative clauses. Both types of phrases can reconstruct,
             predicted by the head-raising analysis of relative
             clauses.},
   Doi = {10.1017/cnj.2024.6},
   Key = {fds376275}
}

@article{fds370397,
   Author = {Chen, Y and Huan, T},
   Title = {Scope assignment in Quantifier-Negation sentences in Tibetan
             as a heritage language in China},
   Journal = {Second Language Research},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02676583231161164},
   Abstract = {Quantifier-Negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading
             in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This difference can be
             attributed to the underlying syntactic difference: the
             negation word can be raised at Logical Form in Tibetan but
             not in Chinese. This study investigated whether
             Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage speakers know such
             difference. We conducted a sentence–picture matching truth
             value judgment task with 28 Chinese-dominant Tibetan
             heritage speakers, 25 baseline Tibetan speakers and 31
             baseline Chinese speakers. Our baseline data first confirmed
             the difference between Tibetan and Chinese: the inverse
             scope reading is allowed in Tibetan but prohibited in
             Chinese. Our heritage participants’ data showed a
             divergence: one group of heritage speakers allow the inverse
             scope reading in both Tibetan and Chinese while another
             group prohibit it in both languages. There is a third group
             of heritage speakers who are aware of the difference between
             Tibetan and Chinese. Our findings suggest that while it is
             possible for heritage speakers to attain nativelike
             knowledge of an interface phenomenon that differs in their
             two languages, they may also be subject to crosslinguistic
             influence and adopt one of two opposite strategies. Both
             strategies can minimize syntactic differences between their
             two grammars so an economy of syntactic representations in
             their repository of grammars can be achieved.},
   Doi = {10.1177/02676583231161164},
   Key = {fds370397}
}


%% Ching, Leo   
@article{fds372240,
   Author = {Ching, LTS and Lim, H},
   Title = {Voices from Cheju (Jeju): Towards an Archipelagic
             Imagination},
   Journal = {Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus},
   Volume = {21},
   Number = {7},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {July},
   Abstract = {The essay profiles five artists and activists from Cheju
             Island and narrates their work and commitment to keeping the
             legacies of the vi cti ms of the i nfamous Chej u 4. 3 Inci
             dent al i ve i n publ i c di scourse. Thei r acti vi sm,
             embedded i n l ocal hi story and memory, is potentially
             transnational and archipelagic, inter-referencing and
             resonating with similar atrocities and related politics of
             memory and redress in Taiwan’s 2.28 Incident as well as
             the Battle of Okinawa. Together, each use their own methods
             and experienced to negotiate and resist nationalist
             historical revision and capitalist speculation, whose acts
             erase the voices of the dead.},
   Key = {fds372240}
}

@article{fds373583,
   Author = {Ching, LTS},
   Title = {The new “Great Game”? Decolonizing wargames in the era
             of China’s rise},
   Journal = {Inter-Asia Cultural Studies},
   Volume = {24},
   Number = {5},
   Pages = {824-835},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2242147},
   Abstract = {The “new” Great Game suggests that, like the imperial
             competition of the past, we are witnessing a trans-imperial
             moment whereby Japan and China are vying for hegemony in
             East Asia. This is a new moment because East Asia, unlike
             Europe, has never had two co-existing superpowers. The
             prospect of a new imperial competition is complicated by the
             still-present American military power and the non-statist
             arena, especially in popular culture, where the imperial
             games are played out. Using two popular anti-Japan
             videogames, Glorious Mission Online (2013) and The Invisible
             Guardian (2019) as case studies, I argue these games are
             symptomatic of the relations between warfare and game in
             general. I then outline the trend in game development that
             subverts conventional wargames. Finally, I speculate on
             alternative game design over the disputed territories in the
             Southern China Sea that prioritizes ecology over human
             conflict and development.},
   Doi = {10.1080/14649373.2023.2242147},
   Key = {fds373583}
}

@article{fds373584,
   Author = {Ching, LTS and Shim, D and Yang, FC},
   Title = {Editorial introduction: East Asian pop culture in the era of
             China’s rise},
   Journal = {Inter-Asia Cultural Studies},
   Volume = {24},
   Number = {5},
   Pages = {737-743},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2242139},
   Doi = {10.1080/14649373.2023.2242139},
   Key = {fds373584}
}


%% Ginsburg, Shai   
@article{fds375351,
   Author = {Ginsburg, S},
   Title = {IMAGE, WORD, LAND},
   Journal = {Hebrew Studies},
   Volume = {64},
   Pages = {255-268},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2023.a912661},
   Doi = {10.1353/hbr.2023.a912661},
   Key = {fds375351}
}


%% Göknar, Erdag   
@article{fds167075,
   Title = {"The Turkish Novel: Modernity, Modernism, and
             Postmodernism"},
   Booktitle = {Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel},
   Year = {20010},
   Month = {Fall},
   Key = {fds167075}
}


%% Jiang, Linshan   
@article{fds370128,
   Author = {Jiang, L},
   Title = {Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuan’s The Love that is
             Temporary and A Farewell Letter},
   Pages = {125-125},
   Booktitle = {Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century A Critical
             Reader},
   Publisher = {Springer},
   Editor = {Wu, C-R and Fan, M-J},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {March},
   ISBN = {9789811983795},
   Abstract = {In this chapter, I will conduct a comparative reading of
             Zhang Yixuan’s (張亦絢) The Love that is Temporary and
             A Farewell Letter and discuss the female protagonists’
             traumatic memories caused by domestic violence and intimate
             partner violence. The two novels are written in the fashion
             of “traumatic realism,” a term proposed by Michael
             Rothberg (2000) in an attempt to “produce the traumatic
             event as an object of knowledge and to program and thus
             transform its readers so that they are forced to acknowledge
             their relationship to posttraumatic culture” (p. 103). As
             both protagonists are writers and the stories are narrated
             in the first-person perspective, they represent the
             traumatic realism “under the sign of trauma” through
             “self-reflexive metanarrative techniques” (Chen, 2020,
             p. 46). I argue that the self-reflections of the two female
             protagonists point to the issues of sex and sexuality, as a
             possible leeway in processing their traumatic
             memories.},
   Key = {fds370128}
}

@article{fds370129,
   Author = {Jiang, L},
   Title = {Queer Vocals and Stardom on Chinese TV: Case Studies of Wu
             Tsing-Fong and Zhou Shen},
   Pages = {145-160},
   Booktitle = {Queer TV China Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender,
             Sexuality, and Chineseness},
   Publisher = {Hong Kong University Press},
   Editor = {Zhao, JJ},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {February},
   ISBN = {9789888805617},
   Abstract = {This chapter examines the life experiences and TV
             performances of two pop singers, Taiwanese Wu Tsing-Fong
             (吴青峰; born in 1982) and mainland Chinese Zhou Shen
             (周深; born in 1992), as well as how people react to their
             images on Chinese TV. Wu and Zhou are special in the
             Sinophone entertainment industry because they both possess
             “androgynous” voices as male singers. At first glance,
             their appearances and personalities echo the popular soft
             masculinity—a hybrid form of Chinese Confucian wen (文)
             masculinity, Japanese bishōnen (美少年; rendered as
             “beautiful youth”) masculinity, and global metrosexual
             masculinity—that scholars have identified in recent
             studies of stardom in East Asia (Jung 2010, 39; Louie 2014,
             24; Louie 2015, 122; Song 2010, 410; Song and Hird 2013, 1;
             see also Chapters 3 and 6 in this volume). While the
             so-called “soft masculinity” may in itself be considered
             “effeminate,” the voices of Wu and Zhou intensify this
             social stigma based on gender norms and are often denounced
             as unacceptable—indeed, queer. Their vocal queerness not
             only drew verbal abuse during the singers’ teenage years,
             but also generated media sensation and public attention
             following each of their performing debuts. I use vocal
             queerness in these two cases to denote both a form of gender
             nonnormativity and a signifier of homosexuality for some
             audiences (although neither singer has declared himself as
             such). Wu and Zhou continue to be targets of verbal abuse at
             present, despite their popularity. Nevertheless, I argue
             that their vocal queerness not only destabilizes the
             univocal male masculinity rooted in mainstream Chinese
             society, but also adds to the diverse representations of
             Chinese-speaking male gender personas in today’s music,
             TV, and celebrity industries.},
   Key = {fds370129}
}


%% Lee, Jung-Min Mina   
@article{fds364992,
   Author = {Lee, J-MM},
   Title = {Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the
             Twenty-First Century. By KYUNG HYUN KIM. Durham: Duke
             University Press, 2021. xviii, 303 pp. ISBN: 9781478014492
             (paper).},
   Journal = {The Journal of Asian Studies},
   Volume = {82},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {260-262},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2023},
   Key = {fds364992}
}

@article{fds372324,
   Author = {Lee, J-MM},
   Title = {Finding the K in K-pop Musically: A Stylistic
             History},
   Pages = {51-72},
   Booktitle = {Cambridge Companion to K-pop},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Editor = {Kim, S-Y},
   Year = {2023},
   Key = {fds372324}
}

@article{fds372325,
   Author = {Lee, J-MM},
   Title = {Minjung Kayo: Imagining Democracy through Song in South
             Korea.},
   Journal = {Twentieth Century Music},
   Volume = {20},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {49-69},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Editor = {Adlington, R and Contreras Zubillaga and I},
   Year = {2023},
   Key = {fds372325}
}


%% Liu, Yan   
@book{fds370589,
   Author = {Liu, Y and Ji, J and Wu, G and Liang, M-M},
   Title = {传承中文 Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners Stories
             about Us},
   Pages = {257 pages},
   Publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {April},
   ISBN = {9781000860344},
   Abstract = {The book starts with talking about individuals and families
             and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American
             communities in the U.S. and eventually to the entire
             American society, all from the unique perspective of Chinese
             American ...},
   Key = {fds370589}
}

@article{fds370590,
   Author = {Liu, Y},
   Title = {Boundary Crossing: Integrating Visual Arts into Teaching
             Chinese as a Foreign Language},
   Booktitle = {Crossing Boundaries in Researching, Understanding, and
             Improving Language Education: Essays in Honor of G. Richard
             Tucker.},
   Publisher = {Springer},
   Editor = {Zhang, D and Miller, R},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {March},
   ISBN = {978-3-031-24078-2},
   Abstract = {This chapter reports on the author’s effort to cross
             disciplinary boundaries in teaching Chinese as a foreign
             language (CFL). It presents a mixed-methods study that
             examines student perceptions about, as well as the benefits
             and the challenges of, integrating visual arts and online
             art museum visits into CFL teaching. Quantitative and
             qualitative data were collected from a questionnaire and
             semi-structured interviews. Based on the findings, the
             author discusses the benefits of using art-integration
             approaches in CFL teaching, particularly their potential in
             answering the Modern Language Association’s call for
             curricular transformation in collegiate foreign language
             curriculum (MLA, Foreign languages and higher education: New
             structures for a changed world. Retrieved from
             http://www.mla.org/flreport, 2007). The author also analyzes
             the challenges encountered and proposes future research
             directions and suggestions for future integration of visual
             arts in the CFL curriculum.},
   Key = {fds370590}
}

@article{fds370591,
   Author = {Liu, Y},
   Title = {Cross-language and cross-disciplinary collaborations in a
             Mandarin CLAC course},
   Pages = {159-175},
   Booktitle = {A Transdisciplinary Approach to Chinese and Japanese
             Language Teaching},
   Publisher = {Routledge},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {February},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003266976-15},
   Doi = {10.4324/9781003266976-15},
   Key = {fds370591}
}


%% Lo, Mbaye   
@book{fds373586,
   Author = {Lo, M and Ernst, CW},
   Title = {I Cannot Write My Life Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar
             Ibn Said's America},
   Year = {2023},
   ISBN = {9781469674674},
   Abstract = {"This work centers on the life and writing of Omar Ibn
             Said, born in 1770 in a border region between Senegal and
             Mauritania that played a significant role in Islamic
             nations.},
   Key = {fds373586}
}

@book{fds373587,
   Author = {Kamara, M},
   Title = {Sheikh Moussa Kamara's Islamic Critique of
             Jihadists},
   Year = {2023},
   ISBN = {9781666933864},
   Abstract = {If peace is at the foundation of the Islamic message, then
             waging any types of jihad as a means of imposing change or
             gaining power will run counter to the nature of
             Islam.},
   Key = {fds373587}
}


%% McLarney, Ellen   
@article{fds371285,
   Author = {McLarney, E and Idris, S},
   Title = {Black Muslims and the Angels of Afrofuturism},
   Journal = {Black Scholar},
   Volume = {53},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {30-47},
   Publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2023.2177948},
   Doi = {10.1080/00064246.2023.2177948},
   Key = {fds371285}
}


%% Mottahedeh, Negar   
@article{fds375361,
   Author = {Mottahedeh, N},
   Title = {Not Feminism, Human Solidarity: Qurrat al-'~Ayn Tahirih in
             Early Historical Drama},
   Journal = {Hawwa},
   Volume = {21},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {410-432},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341407},
   Abstract = {Qurrat al-'Ayn Tahirih has long been associated with
             feminism and early agitation for women’s rights in Iran
             and elsewhere. These articulations fly in the face of her
             repeated construction in the historical work of her
             contemporaries as the condition of the new. Qurrat al-'Ayn
             Tahirih was a dramatic and messianic player. And it was out
             of the messianism on which she acted that “the new” came
             into being. This essay studies her unveiling at the Badasht
             conclave in the work of her chroniclers as a sacred
             performance.},
   Doi = {10.1163/15692086-12341407},
   Key = {fds375361}
}


%% Musawi Natanzi, Paniz   
@misc{fds372082,
   Author = {Musawi Natanzi and P},
   Title = {Gender Studies in Afghanistan or jender bazi: The Neoliberal
             University, Knowledge Production and Labour Under Military
             Occupation},
   Publisher = {TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {June},
   Key = {fds372082}
}


%% Prasad, Leela   
@article{fds373413,
   Author = {Prasad, L},
   Title = {"Finding Anna"},
   Journal = {Critical Muslim},
   Volume = {44},
   Number = {1},
   Year = {2023},
   Key = {fds373413}
}


%% Rojas, Carlos   
@article{fds372686,
   Author = {Rojas, C},
   Title = {YAN LIANKE’S HETEROTOPIC IMAGINARIES},
   Pages = {264-273},
   Booktitle = {A World History of Chinese Literature},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {9780367764883},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003167198-28},
   Abstract = {A cancer village, an AIDS village, a rightist re-education
             camp during China’s Great Famine, and so forth - many of
             Yan Lianke’s fictional works revolve around remote
             communities that are comparatively isolated from mainstream
             Chinese society yet are defined by unusual, distorted, or
             even perverse features that are indexical traces of a set of
             structural transformations affecting the nation as a whole.
             In this respect, these fictional spaces may be viewed as
             examples of what Foucault calls heterotopias. This chapter
             examines several of the heterotopian spaces in Yan’s
             fiction, reflecting on how they are used to highlight a set
             of distortions and malignancies within contemporary China
             while, at the same time, offering a vision for possible
             reform.},
   Doi = {10.4324/9781003167198-28},
   Key = {fds372686}
}

@article{fds372796,
   Author = {Rojas, C},
   Title = {Untamed: Wilderness and Domestication in Zhang Guixing’s
             Elephant Herd},
   Journal = {Chinese Literature and Thought Today},
   Volume = {54},
   Number = {1-2},
   Pages = {27-37},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2205786},
   Abstract = {This essay uses a dialectics of wildness and domestication
             as a prism through which to examine the first work in Zhang
             Guixing’s informal rainforest trilogy, his 1998 novel
             Elephant Herd (Qunxiang). Focusing on Zhang’s engagement
             with issues of nature, colonialism, language, and family,
             the essay argues that the novel pivots on a pair of
             intertwined impulses to domesticate wilderness, on the one
             hand, and to disrupt and figuratively “re-wild” these
             domesticated spaces, on the other hand. Even as wildness, in
             all its forms, is perceived as an existential threat that
             needs to be tamed, the resulting domestication process
             frequently involves patterns of violence that require new
             efforts of domestication in their own right.},
   Doi = {10.1080/27683524.2023.2205786},
   Key = {fds372796}
}

@article{fds372998,
   Author = {Chang, KH and Rojas, C},
   Title = {Elephant Herd (An Excerpt)},
   Journal = {Chinese Literature and Thought Today},
   Volume = {54},
   Number = {1-2},
   Pages = {38-43},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2205787},
   Abstract = {Taken from the beginning of Zhang Guixing’s 1998 novel
             Elephant Herd (Qunxiang), this excerpt opens with a series
             of flashbacks to incidents that occurred when the narrator
             was six, seven, eight, and fourteen years old, respectively,
             focusing on the narrator’s relationship with various
             members of his extended family and family acquaintances. The
             novel’s main plotline (which is not introduced in this
             short excerpt) describes a trip that the twenty-year-old
             protagonist, Shi Shicai, takes up Sarawak’s Rajang River
             with his former high-school classmate Zhu Dezhong in search
             of Shicai’s uncle, Yu Jiatong, who is the leader of an
             underground brigade of communist guerillas.},
   Doi = {10.1080/27683524.2023.2205787},
   Key = {fds372998}
}

@article{fds376010,
   Author = {Rojas, C},
   Title = {Heart and body: Queer crossings in Go Princess
             Go},
   Journal = {Journal of Chinese Cinemas},
   Volume = {17},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {95-107},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2024.2312728},
   Abstract = {Based on an internet novel first released in 2008, the
             Chinese web series Go Princess Go 太子妃升職記
             (2015–2016) takes a time-travel ‘crossover’ premise
             and uses it to explore a set of queer scenarios involving
             ‘crossovers’ of both gender and sexual orientation. This
             article examines how the series approaches issues of
             identity formation in relation to a plotline that has both
             homoerotic and transgender implications. The article then
             considers the series in relation to broader set of
             paratextual concerns, including the regulatory environment
             under which the series was initially produced as well as the
             Chinese work’s subsequent re-adaptation as a Korean web
             series—arguing that the issues of identity formation that
             the series explores with respect to individuals also pertain
             to the questions of cultural production and community
             structure raised by these paratextual concerns.},
   Doi = {10.1080/17508061.2024.2312728},
   Key = {fds376010}
}

@article{fds376274,
   Author = {Rojas, C},
   Title = {Yingjin Zhang: Worlds of Literature},
   Journal = {Chinese Literature and Thought Today},
   Volume = {54},
   Number = {3-4},
   Pages = {33-35},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2264145},
   Abstract = {Through a consideration of the introductions that Yingjin
             Zhang wrote for the first and final solo-edited volumes of
             his career, China in a Polycentric World (1998) and A World
             History of Chinese Literature (2023), this essay examines
             some of the concerns with the relationship between Chinese
             and world literature that preoccupied Zhang throughout his
             career. In particular, he approached the category of Chinese
             literature and culture as being grounded in a concept of
             Chineseness understood not as a national but rather as a
             cultural category. Moreover, he stressed that Chinese and
             world literature are best understood not as discrete
             concepts or categories, but rather as dynamic practices,
             which has allowed them to consistently exceed and transcend
             political or institutional attempts to limit the literary
             field’s nominal scope or possibilities.},
   Doi = {10.1080/27683524.2023.2264145},
   Key = {fds376274}
}

@article{fds376756,
   Author = {Rojas, C},
   Title = {Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer Alternatives},
   Pages = {111-123},
   Booktitle = {Sinophone and Taiwan Studies},
   Publisher = {Springer Nature Singapore},
   Year = {2023},
   ISBN = {9789811983795},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8380-1_8},
   Doi = {10.1007/978-981-19-8380-1_8},
   Key = {fds376756}
}

@article{fds376755,
   Author = {Rojas, C},
   Title = {Future Imperfect: Using the Future to Critique the
             Present},
   Journal = {CHINA PERSPECTIVES},
   Number = {135},
   Pages = {19-27},
   Year = {2023},
   Key = {fds376755}
}