Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
Introduction -- Ethnographers-out-there: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough -- Ezra Pound: an ideographer or ethnographer? -- The intertextual travel of Amy Lowell -- The multifarious faces of the Chinese language -- Maxine Hong Kingston and the making of an "American" myth -- Translation as ethnography: problems in American translations of contemporary Chinese poetry.
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Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politic.
JSTOR
22573/cttt0dm7
Transpacific displacement.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Chinese American authors-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Chinese influences.
Chinese Americans in literature.
Chinese Americans in mass media.
Chinese Americans-- Intellectual life.
Chinese literature-- Appreciation-- United States.