Sheng-Mei Ma
Biographic Data
| ID | 1243872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheng-Mei Ma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheng-Mei |
| FAMILY NAME | Ma |
| SIGNATURE | MA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sino-noir of Serial Killers and Dismemberments
In a Chinese society with low crime rates, why do TV series savor the genre of Sino-noir of serial killers and dismemberments? Ritualized bloodletting during nightly bingeing signals a psychological displacement from one’s terminal condition, cowering under that which cannot be named—the dictatorship not so much of the proletariat as of the Party secretariat. Sino-noir on serial killers honors the Party while having it on, spoofing it. The obliga…
Taiwan Shi f t in Anglophone Fiction and Memoir
Increasingly, self-representation as “Taiwanese American writers” proliferates in authors’ notes, book blurbs, and interviews. A reprise of the white privilege in cosplaying Taiwan throughout Anglophone writings, quite a few Taiwanese American novelists Taiwanize their stories in setting, plot, location markers, and character traits. Yet this Taiwanizing in substance shares in their nostalgia over a felt loss, a loss of substance, as though Taiwa…
Off-White
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 an…
Forgotten Taiwanese Veteran’s Memory of Compulsory Service
Having withdrawn in utter defeat in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek militarized the island of Taiwan with the express purpose of retaking China. Compulsory military service of every able-bodied man, except Chiang’s grandsons and those of the elite ruling class, had been implemented soon after. Averaging two to three years, such military service was either hailed as turning boys into men or scorned as a total waste of the best years of one’s life. This rite…
Sino-Anglo-Euro Wolf Fan(g)s from Jiang Rong to Annaud // Fans lupinos sino-anglo-europeos de Jiang Ring a Annaud
Fans of Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem could arguably shapeshift into a wolf’s fangs, the sharp tips of China’s Social Darwinism today. Jiang mourns the killing of Mongolian wolves, erecting a literary totem there after wolves are gone. An elegy for the wild comes to justify the growing of fangs amid the jungle of the socialist-capitalist market. Wolf totem becomes a phallic symbol for power. A Sino-Anglo-Euro morphing materializes in global cinema as A…
Asiatic Aspie
Instead of artistic or poetic license in general, millennial novelists and filmmakers have been taking a particular kind of “aspic license” in their use or abuse of Asperger’s Syndrome for characterization and plot. A mental disability turns out to enable lead characters in their respective pursuits, as in the British TV comedy Doc Martin (2004-2013) and Mai Jia’s Chinese spy thriller Decoded (2002). Doc Martin associates Aspie with Asiatic, both…
Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity
Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma’s Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity’s illusion and nothing’s infinitude. Suspended on the stylistic tightrope between research and poetry, critical analysis and intuition, Asian Diaspora restores affect and heart to the expe…
Three Views of the Rising Sun, Obliquely
East-West Montage
The O of Han Ju
One of the climaxes in Han Ju, “the Korean Wave” in Mandarin, is women's confession of love for men. However, such emotional outbursts invariably are contained by rather than destabilizing the patriarchal tradition. In Asia, while Korean women's daring confession captivates the audience, who are burdened by the heritage of feminine passivity, it may signify less a feminist breakthrough than an underhanded boost to the male ego that withholds its …
Women's Holocaust Writing
Journal Article Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination. S. Lillian Kremer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 278 Pages. $45.00 cloth. Get access Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination.. S. Lillian Kremer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 278 pages. $45.00 cloth. Sheng-mei Ma Sheng-mei Ma Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 25,…
Yellow Kung Fu and Black Jokes
Immigrant Acts
Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Literature
Research Article| August 01 1996 Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Literature: Chinese, Postcolonial, or Minority Text? Sheng-mei Ma Sheng-mei Ma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1996) 4 (3): 421–458. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-3-421 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sheng-mei Ma; Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Lite…
Contrasting Two Survival Literatures
Journal Article CONTRASTING TWO SURVIVAL LITERATURES: ON THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST AND THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Get access SHENG-MEI MA SHENG-MEI MA Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 81–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/2.1.81 Published: 01 January 1987
The O of Han Ju
One of the climaxes in Han Ju, “the Korean Wave” in Mandarin, is women's confession of love for men. However, such emotional outbursts invariably are contained by rather than destabilizing the patriarchal tradition. In Asia, while Korean women's daring confession captivates the audience, who are burdened by the heritage of feminine passivity, it may signify less a feminist breakthrough than an underhanded boost to the male ego that withholds its …
Yellow Kung Fu and Black Jokes
Contrasting Two Survival Literatures
Journal Article CONTRASTING TWO SURVIVAL LITERATURES: ON THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST AND THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Get access SHENG-MEI MA SHENG-MEI MA Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 81–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/2.1.81 Published: 01 January 1987
Contrasting Two Survival Literatures
Journal Article CONTRASTING TWO SURVIVAL LITERATURES: ON THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST AND THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Get access SHENG-MEI MA SHENG-MEI MA Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 81–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/2.1.81 Published: 01 January 1987
Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Literature
Research Article| August 01 1996 Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Literature: Chinese, Postcolonial, or Minority Text? Sheng-mei Ma Sheng-mei Ma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1996) 4 (3): 421–458. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-3-421 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sheng-mei Ma; Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Lite…
Immigrant Acts
Women's Holocaust Writing
Journal Article Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination. S. Lillian Kremer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 278 Pages. $45.00 cloth. Get access Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination.. S. Lillian Kremer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 278 pages. $45.00 cloth. Sheng-mei Ma Sheng-mei Ma Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 25,…
Yellow Kung Fu and Black Jokes
East-West Montage
The O of Han Ju
One of the climaxes in Han Ju, “the Korean Wave” in Mandarin, is women's confession of love for men. However, such emotional outbursts invariably are contained by rather than destabilizing the patriarchal tradition. In Asia, while Korean women's daring confession captivates the audience, who are burdened by the heritage of feminine passivity, it may signify less a feminist breakthrough than an underhanded boost to the male ego that withholds its …
Three Views of the Rising Sun, Obliquely
Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity
Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma’s Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity’s illusion and nothing’s infinitude. Suspended on the stylistic tightrope between research and poetry, critical analysis and intuition, Asian Diaspora restores affect and heart to the expe…
Asiatic Aspie
Instead of artistic or poetic license in general, millennial novelists and filmmakers have been taking a particular kind of “aspic license” in their use or abuse of Asperger’s Syndrome for characterization and plot. A mental disability turns out to enable lead characters in their respective pursuits, as in the British TV comedy Doc Martin (2004-2013) and Mai Jia’s Chinese spy thriller Decoded (2002). Doc Martin associates Aspie with Asiatic, both…
Sino-Anglo-Euro Wolf Fan(g)s from Jiang Rong to Annaud // Fans lupinos sino-anglo-europeos de Jiang Ring a Annaud
Fans of Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem could arguably shapeshift into a wolf’s fangs, the sharp tips of China’s Social Darwinism today. Jiang mourns the killing of Mongolian wolves, erecting a literary totem there after wolves are gone. An elegy for the wild comes to justify the growing of fangs amid the jungle of the socialist-capitalist market. Wolf totem becomes a phallic symbol for power. A Sino-Anglo-Euro morphing materializes in global cinema as A…
Off-White
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 an…
Forgotten Taiwanese Veteran’s Memory of Compulsory Service
Having withdrawn in utter defeat in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek militarized the island of Taiwan with the express purpose of retaking China. Compulsory military service of every able-bodied man, except Chiang’s grandsons and those of the elite ruling class, had been implemented soon after. Averaging two to three years, such military service was either hailed as turning boys into men or scorned as a total waste of the best years of one’s life. This rite…
Sino-noir of Serial Killers and Dismemberments
In a Chinese society with low crime rates, why do TV series savor the genre of Sino-noir of serial killers and dismemberments? Ritualized bloodletting during nightly bingeing signals a psychological displacement from one’s terminal condition, cowering under that which cannot be named—the dictatorship not so much of the proletariat as of the Party secretariat. Sino-noir on serial killers honors the Party while having it on, spoofing it. The obliga…
Taiwan Shi f t in Anglophone Fiction and Memoir
Increasingly, self-representation as “Taiwanese American writers” proliferates in authors’ notes, book blurbs, and interviews. A reprise of the white privilege in cosplaying Taiwan throughout Anglophone writings, quite a few Taiwanese American novelists Taiwanize their stories in setting, plot, location markers, and character traits. Yet this Taiwanizing in substance shares in their nostalgia over a felt loss, a loss of substance, as though Taiwa…
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