Publications

Book Chapters

  1. "The Non-Book, Or the Play of the Sign" in Katherine Spears, Tianshu: Passages in the Making of A Book. London: Quaritch 2009, pp.65-80.
  2. "Writing and Media," in W.J.T. Mitchell and Mark Hansen, eds., Critical Terms for Media Studies, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
  3. "The Semiotic Turn of International Politics (in Chinese)" in Huang Du, ed., Wang Lu Yan: Sawing or Being Sawed?-Painting and Installation. Beijing, Arario Gallery, 2008, pp. 90-92.
  4. "Injury: Incriminating Words and Imperial Power," in Anna Tsing and Carol Gluck, eds., Words in Motion, forthcoming from Duke University Press.
  5. "The Odor of Tobacco and Xu Bing's Art Installation as Ritual" ((Non-refereed Chinese article)) in Wu Hung, ed., Xu Bing: The Tobacco Project. Beijing: Joint Publisher, 2006, pp.118-129.
  6. "Barbarian," a non-refereed essay in a mock dictionary called Shock and Awe: War on Words, edited by Bregje van Eekelen et al. Santa Cruz: Institute for Advanced Feminist Research, September 2004.
  7. "Introduction to the 2003 Edition" of Arthur H. Smith, Chinese Characteristics. Norwalk, Connecticut: EastBridge, 2003.
  8. "Desire and Sovereign Thinking" in Jonathan Culler and Pheng Cheah eds., Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson. New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 191-224.
  9. "Robinson Crusoe's Earthenware Pot: Science, Aesthetics, and the Metaphysics of True Porcelain." In Noah Heringman ed., Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History. Albany: State University of New York, 2003, pp. 139-171. (This is an expanded version of my 1999 essay published in Critical Inquiry).
  10. "A Folksong Immortal and Official Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century China." In Zeitlin and Liu, eds., Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003, pp. 553-609.
  11. "The Problem of Language in Cross-Cultural Studies." (Reprint of Chapter One of the book Translingual Practice). In Hwa Yol Yung, ed. Comparative Political Culture in the Age of Globalization. Boulder: Lexington Books, 2002.
  12. "The Translator's Turn: The Birth of the Modern Chinese Language and Fiction." In Victor H. Mair, ed. The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. 1055-1066.
  13. "A Disputed Case of Folksong Tradition: Conflicts and Confluences Between Ethnic Minority Cultures and Official Chinese Popular Arts" (in Chinese) in Peng Hsiao-yen, ed., Wenyi lilun yu tongsu wenhua (Literary theory and popular culture). 2 vols.Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1999.
  14. "Translingual Practice: the Discourse of Individualism between China and the West." Newly anthologized in Wimal Dissanayake, ed., Narratives of Agency. University of Minnesota Press, 1996; and also anthologized in Tani Barlow, ed., Formations of Colonial Modernity, Duke University Press, 1997.
  15. "The Female Body and Nationalist Discourse: Xiao Hong's Field of Life and Death Revisited." In Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, eds., Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994, pp.37-62.
  16. "The Female Body and Nationalist Discourse: Manchuria in Xiao Hong's Field of Life and Death" (revised version of the above article) in Angela Zito and Tani Barlow, eds. Body, Subject, Power in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp.157- 177.
  17. "Narratives of Modern Selfhood: First-Person Fiction in May Fourth Literature." In Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique. Eds., Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993, pp.102-123.
  18. "Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature." In Ellen Widmer and David Der-wei Wang, eds., From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, pp.194-220. Also anthologized in Tani E. Barlow,ed., Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994, pp.33-57.
  19. "Reflections on History: Ba Jin's Idea of Literature as a Path to Salvation (in Chinese). Introduction to Ba Jin xiaoshuo quanji (Complete works of fiction by Ba Jin). Vol. 7. Taipei: Yuanliu chuban gongsi, 1993, pp.1-6.