Chih-Ming Wang
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824836429
- eISBN:
- 9780824871055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836429.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter explores overseas student writing—in both English and Chinese—as embodying a specific kind of transnational crossing that articulates Asia/America into a transpacific cultural and ...
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This chapter explores overseas student writing—in both English and Chinese—as embodying a specific kind of transnational crossing that articulates Asia/America into a transpacific cultural and political space. It studies The Chinese Students' Monthly, which was published by the Chinese Students' Alliance in America from 1905 to 1931, as well as the Chinese-language literary pieces about studying abroad that emerged in the early twentieth century and became a recognizable body of literature in the 1960s and 1970s, known in Chinese as liuxuesheng wenxue, or “overseas student literature.” This chapter contends that overseas student writing represents a specific kind of textual travel that weaves together American experience with Asian feelings with a double task in hand: reporting to readers at home about America and their experiences, and protesting and correcting misrepresentations of China and its people.Less
This chapter explores overseas student writing—in both English and Chinese—as embodying a specific kind of transnational crossing that articulates Asia/America into a transpacific cultural and political space. It studies The Chinese Students' Monthly, which was published by the Chinese Students' Alliance in America from 1905 to 1931, as well as the Chinese-language literary pieces about studying abroad that emerged in the early twentieth century and became a recognizable body of literature in the 1960s and 1970s, known in Chinese as liuxuesheng wenxue, or “overseas student literature.” This chapter contends that overseas student writing represents a specific kind of textual travel that weaves together American experience with Asian feelings with a double task in hand: reporting to readers at home about America and their experiences, and protesting and correcting misrepresentations of China and its people.
