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Hardcover Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture Book

ISBN: 1501352202

ISBN13: 9781501352201

Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture

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How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep up appearances of pseudo-Sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the English language? Anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing Chinese. Throughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land...

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