{"title":"Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics ed. by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao (review)","authors":"Hu Yiju","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132522100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature by Jiwei Xiao (review)","authors":"S. Lu","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114802556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performing a Poetic Temporal Weave: Gender and Femininity in Zhai Yongming's Poetry","authors":"Yanhong Zhu","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines Zhai Yongming's articulation of gender and femininity by exploring themes and imagery of poems written in different stages of her literary career, ranging from the early 1980s to the present, and argues that Zhai's poetic representations of femininity are closely tied to her evolving temporal consciousness. Her poetic career originated from a strong sense of gender awareness, which she defines as \"dark night consciousness,\" explored in her early poems through the poetic representation of what Kristeva calls \"Women's time\" that is cyclical and eternal. In later poems, Zhai strives to create new forms of poetic expression by interweaving the past and present. Such experimentation helps articulate a new poetic voice that moves beyond the male/female gender binary, a voice that is at once feminine and beyond femininity.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126472818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic transed. by Frederik H. Green (review)","authors":"Pu Wang","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"appealing to the courts, work slowdowns, labor actions, suicide threats, riots, and seeking help from unions, they failed to change or improve their situation. The final chapter and epilogue summarize the causes of the unsuccessful worker protests and provide deep insights on labor issues. Importantly, Chan, Selden, and Pun point out that under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, worker’s actions in China have been severely constrained or monitored. As a result, those who aim to engage in strikes and protests can face more challenges. However, even though currently worker activists cannot achieve the goal of strengthening labor rights, the authors believe that labor activism in China still plays a significant role of supporting Foxconn workers as well as inspiring global labor activists.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132071189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of the Writer and the Making of Hong Kong in Dung Kai-cheung's The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera","authors":"Fanghua Li","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper illustrates how The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera reflects critically on the role of the writer and the meaning of writing Hong Kong after the 1997 handover. By challenging the relationships between writer and character, human and things, creator and creations, the novel seeks to break the binary structure of the colonizer and the colonized and advocate for a new mode of writing that is decentralized, collaborative, and forward-looking. Dung proposes to see Hong Kong not as an object of representation passively defined through looking into the past, but as a subject of creation that comes into existence through the collaborative act of imagining the future. This new mode of writing not only generates a textual \"space of appearance\" that encourages the collective making of \"possible\" Hong Kongs, but also seeks to assert Hong Kong's autonomy through the creation of spaces for self-definition.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131688604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When a Woman Looks at a Woman: Poetics of the Look in Zhai Yongming's Ekphrastic Writings","authors":"Laura Velazquez-Velazquez","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores how the rhetorical device of ekphrasis is used in a series of essays and poems by Zhai Yongming. Taking as its starting point the ekphrastic essay \"A Mexican Woman,\" this paper suggests that, through ekphrasis, Zhai's narrative voice creates intimate female bonds between the narrator and the subject of her narration. By doing so, Zhai's implied narrator explores new ways of seeing other women that rely on intimate recognition and that offer an alternative to a male gaze that denies women an active role in the dominant regimes of visuality.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116836184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Night Consciousness and Ecofeminist Poetics in the Works of Zhai Yongming","authors":"Géraldine Fiss","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As we read Zhai Yongming's poetry from the 1980's to the present, we observe a transformation of her inward-oriented \"black night consciousness\" to a more outward-looking poetic mode that endeavors to shed light on social and environmental injustice. Her early poetry collection, Woman, articulates the unique nature of women's experiences and perceptions by foregrounding the interconnectedness between feminine subjectivity and the natural world. In some recent poems, by contrast, Zhai adopts a strong ecofeminist stance to engage in ecological critique of ills like prostitution, urban poverty, and crime, while as a poet she plays the role of sympathizer, observer, eyewitness, and mediator.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133229199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China 1861-1906 by Shaoling Ma (review)","authors":"Fangyuan Huang","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127178273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Ngai Pun (review)","authors":"Lishu Tang","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115325057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}