Elephant Herd is a vivid and captivating novel by the Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) writer Zhang Guixing. It is an atmospheric account of a Malaysian Chinese young man's journey upriver…

This book presents the main political lessons of the Mexican movement of
Neozapatismo. The book presents also how the Neozapatismo embodies a
real project of an alternative modernity, in front…

Rojas focuses on visuality and gender tropes to reflect on shifting understandings of the significance of Chineseness, modernity, and Chinese modernity. Through detailed readings of narrative works, the study identifies…

With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a volcanic eruption…

He convinces the villagers to set up a travelling freak-show showcasing their disabilities, including Blind Tonghua’s Acute Listening Act, Guess the Age of the Old Man, Deafman Ma’s Firecrackers-on-the-Ear and…

A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China’s Cultural Revolution On his return to his village in the Balou Mountains, soldier…

From one of China’s most successful writers (The New Yorker), two masterful novellas exploring the stigma of mental illness, the sacrifices made for family, and the desire to leave behind…

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century.