Reading List for Rey Chow's Workshop

Authenticities East and West
March 30 - April 1, 2001

1. Rey Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Columbia UP, 1995), part II, chapter 4: "The Force of Surfaces."

2. Naoki Sakai, Translation and Subjectivity: On 'Japan' and Cultural Nationalism (U of Minnesota P, 1997), chapter 2: "The Problem of 'Japanese' Thought . . ."

3. Yong Ren, "Cosmogony, Fictionality, Poetic Creativity: Western and Traditional Chinese Cultural Perspectives," Comparative Literature 50.2 (spring 1998): 98-119.

4. Michelle Yeh, "Chinese Postmodernism and the Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Poetry," in Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness: Narratives, Images, and Interpretations of the 1990s, ed. Wen-hsin Yeh (Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, 2000): pp. 100-127.

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