Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. His books include Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination.Melody Yunzi Li is Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies at University of Houston. Her research interests include Asian diaspora literature, modern Chinese literature and culture, migration studies, and translation studies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Remapping the Homeland.- Chapter 2: The geography helps”: Affective Geographies and Maps in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.- Chapter 3: From Rust Belt to Belleville: Two Recent Films on Chinese Migrant Sex Workers in Paris.- Chapter 4: Borderscape, Exile, Trafficking: The Geopoetics of Ying Liang’s A Family Tour and Bai Xue’s The Crossing.- Chapter 5: Displaced Nostalgia and Literary déjà vu: On the Quasi-archaic Style of Li Yongping’s Retribution: The Jiling Chronicles.- Chapter 6: Literary Exile in the Third Space: Ha Jin’s Critique of Nation-States in The Free Life.- Chapter 7: Remapping New York’s Chinatowns in the Works of Eric Liu and Ha Jin.- Chapter 8: The Holy Hole in Chinese Patriarchal Culture: Going Pop and South.- Chapter 9: This Place Which Is Not One: Diaspora, Topophrenia, and the World System.

“Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora provides readers with myriad understandings of networks and fragments of places, spaces, languages, and times, to arouse, create, reciprocate, and repress feelings; and to urge scholarship to attend to these emotions.” (Yahia Ma, Asian Studies Review, May 8, 2023)