Representing Chinese-Caucasian romance in twentieth-century Anglophone literature Zeng, Shu 1989- creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. nyu 2020 monographic eng print viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm "Against the modern cult for transnational love, this book brings readers to revisit the prolonged anxieties over the mixing of races and the complexities underpinning the literary representation of thwarted Chinese-Caucasian romance in the twentieth century. Moreover, in the current world order where the rise of China has played a significant role and triggered different speculations on various fronts, this book takes readers to embark on a long, exciting journey back to the very beginning of how Westerners perceive China and Chinese people in the thirteenth century and travel across the centuries to the current era-a journey that enables the traveler to feel the pulse of historical moments that have come to influence Sino-Western relations and China's image in the Western mind. Bringing an interesting, original corpus of Anglophone texts (some largely forgotten) into conversation around the vocabularies they deploy to deal with relationships between Chinese and non-Chinese characters, this book help readers to rethink current issues of migration, identity, sexuality, hybridity and diaspora that have taken the present shape under the residual effects of the racial and sexual discourses of the past and that are instrumental to our historical position and trajectory. Therefore, this book is about the past and the present, the East and the West, the Self and the Other, the center and the periphery; but it is more about the temporary, the fluid, the liminal, the in-between"-- The Chinese Chameleon Revisited -- Staging Chinese Presence in the Early Twentieth Century -- Orientalism and Counterhegemonic Energies -- Unveiling the Harem -- The Politics of Intercultural Representation and the Potentiality of Cultural Hybridity -- Conclusion. Shu Zeng. "This book is part of the Peter Lang regional studies list." Includes bibliographical references. American literature 20th century History and criticism Interracial couples in literature Interracial friendship in literature Interracial marriage in literature Chinese in literature Whites in literature Other (Philosophy) in literature English literature 20th century History and criticism American literature Chinese in literature English literature Interracial marriage in literature Other (Philosophy) in literature Whites in literature 1900-1999 fast PS228.I693 Z46 2020 820.9/3529951 Representing Chinese-Caucasian romance in twentieth-century Anglophone literature Zeng, Shu, 1989- New York : Peter Lang, 2020. (DLC) 2019055828 9781433173042 1433173042 9781433177668 9781433177675 9781433177682 2019055827 pda,print DLC 200226 20250318223459.4 in00004353559 eng