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Article: Branching out: Chinese American literary studies in Taiwan.(1H Paper)
- Article from:
- Chinese America: History and Perspectives
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Some of the writings are also, or rather, especially, autobiographical or autocritical, in the sense that I speak of my own identity not as a theorist but as a practicing writer. As a general rule, I do not like to confuse the two roles, but sometimes it is necessary .. to turn to one's own experience....
--Umberto Eco, Introduction to On Literature
While the "Branching Out the Banyan Tree" conference focuses primarily on the branching out of the Chinese people and their culture in America, this paper tries to address another direction of "branching out," namely, the spread of Chinese American literary studies from the United States to Taiwan. As a ...