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Beyond Party Politics? Visitors and Meaning-Making in the National Museum of Taiwan Literature 超越党派政治？台湾文学博物馆的参观者与意义

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0014

E. Graf

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“World Literature” between Transcultural Poetics and Colonial Politics: Yang Chichang, Le Moulin, and Surrealism in Taiwan 跨文化诗学与殖民政治之间的“世界文学”——杨其昌、乐牟林与台湾超现实主义

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0016

Fang-Ping Chen

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From the “Taiwanese Dream” to an Alien Land: The Mainland Writer Zhang Yiwei’s Literary Narratives of Taiwan 从“台湾梦”到异乡——大陆作家张艺伟的台湾文学叙事

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0018

P. Huang

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Fanning Out Possibilities: Dung Kai-cheung and the Multiplicities of Time 扇出可能性：邓与时间的多重性

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0020

Meng Wu

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The Making of Small Literature as World Literature: Taiwanese Writer Wu Ming-Yi 小文学作为世界文学的建构——台湾作家吴明义

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0015

Kuei-fen Chiu

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To Love and Freedom: Post-martial Law Subjectivity in Detention and Your Name Engraved Herein 爱与自由:戒严后羁押中的主体性与刻上你的名字

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0017

Chialan Sharon WANG

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Queer Remains: Mourning and Inheritance in Lo Yi-chin’s Banishing Sorrow 酷儿遗骨：罗排忧解难的哀悼与传承

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0019

Keyun Tian

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Interpreting Mythorealism: Disenchanted Shijing and Spiritual Crisis in Yan Lianke’s Ballad, Hymn, Ode 解读神话现实主义:《诗经》幻灭与阎连科叙事诗咏的精神危机

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0004

Haiyan Xie

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The Music of the Machine: A Ying, International Constructivism, and Sonic Modernity in Chinese Revolutionary Literature 机器的音乐:阿颖、国际建构主义与中国革命文学中的声音现代性

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0008

Benjamin Kindler

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Wrestling with Tradition: Early Chinese Suffragettes and the Modern Remodeling of the Shrew Trope 与传统的角力：中国早期的选举权与史劳奖杯的现代重塑

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.3366/mclc.2022.0007

Shu Yang

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