Asian & Middle Eastern Studies : Publications since January 2023
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@article{fds167075,
Author = {E. Göknar},
Title = {"The Turkish Novel: Modernity, Modernism, and
Postmodernism"},
Booktitle = {Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel},
Year = {20010},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds167075}
}
@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{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}
}
@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}
}
@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{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}
}
@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}
}
@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{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}
}
@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}
}
@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}
}
@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}
}
@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}
}
@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}
}
@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}
}
@article{fds373413,
Author = {Prasad, L},
Title = {"Finding Anna"},
Journal = {Critical Muslim},
Volume = {44},
Number = {1},
Year = {2023},
Key = {fds373413}
}
@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}
}