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Publications [#241992] of Rey Chow

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  1. Chow, R. "Framing the Original: toward a New Visibility of the Orient." PMLA 126.3 (May, 2011): 555-63. [doi]
    (last updated on 2024/03/28)

    Abstract:
    A friend, long deceased, once told me how he had decided to specialize in Japanese literature. In the early 1970s, he heard a talk by a well-known Japanologist, who contrasted China study and Japan study by citing the opening lines of two primers for foreign students. The Chinese primer began with the line “I am hungry”; the Japanese one began with the line “The cherry blossoms are falling from the sky.” My friend chose to go the way of the cherry blossoms.


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