Chinese Diasporic Writers and Artists by Kwok-kan Tam, Lily Li - 9781041028840

Chinese Diasporic Writers and ArtistsReimagining Identity and the Self Beyond and Without China\nAuthor(s): Kwok-kan Tam, Lily Li\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041028840, 978-1041028840\nSynopsis\nThis book presents new and original essays that capture the enigmatic and intriguing personal and imagined worlds of Chinese writers and artists in diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\n\nIncluding chapters on artist-writers such as Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, Ha Jin and Hong Ying, Tyrus Wong, and Shen Wei, the book explores personal cross-cultural experiences through their literary and other artistic works, reflecting on their cultural identity, their native home, and their new home, the past and the present. By writing, filming, and painting about their diaspora/diasporic experience, they are writing about their selves and the traumatic experience many of them have gone through in forgetting the past,.