This paper investigates how the transformation of the Taiwanese writer Wu Ming-Yi, from a
peripheral writer to a world literature writer, takes place. It first defines the status of Wu as a …

Following Wang Ning's postulation that world poetics is" an open theoretical body that gains
in translation and cross-cultural interpretation and can be constantly reconstructed," I …

After we sent out the call for papers for the special issue “East Asian and Southeast Asian
Literature in the World Literary Space,” we received enthusiastic responses from scholars …

Sheng-Feng Weng: Thank you to the four heavyweight scholars for joining this forum
discussion. The first topic is related to the role of the nation and, in the process of …

Yingjin Zhang was a quiet and deep-thinking scholar in graduate school. He had the
foresight to focus on film studies as the new frontier of scholarship, leaving a rich legacy for …

3 Introduction of view. It begins (Chapter 1) with Lucas Klein's critical review of two main
shortcomings in the field of Sinophone Studies: the lack of attention towards poetry written in …

Yingjin Zhang's contributions to Chinese cinema studies, literary studies, urban studies,
visual studies, and transmedia studies are manifold and substantial. Fundamentally, when …

Despite many recent attempts to redefine and reconceptualize the notion of world literature,
this chapter attempts to address the concept's persistent defiance of such efforts. Maintaining …