Chinese American Literature without Borders

King-Kok Cheung is Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is author of Articulate Silences and editor of Words Matter; An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature; "Seventeen Syllables"; Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography; and coeditor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.

• Introduction.- Part I   Gender.- (S)wordswoman versus (S)wordsman: Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank Chin.- Manhood Besieged: Gus Lee and David Wong Louie.- Masculine Mystique: Xu Zhimo徐志摩, Younghill Kang, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang, and Anchee Min.- Art, Spirituality, and Ren or the Ethic of Care: Shawn Wong, Li-young Lee, and Russell C. Leong.- Part II Genre and Form.- In(ter)dependence in Chinese / American Life-Writing: Liang Qichao 梁启超, Hu Shi胡适, Shen Congwen沈从文, Maxine Hong Kingston, William Poy Lee, and Ruthanne Lum McCunn.- “Theorizing in Narrative Form”: Bing Xin冰心.- (Im)migrant Writing, Moving Homelands: Ha Jin 哈金.- Slanted Allusions: Marilyn Chin and Russell C. Leong.- Coda.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.