Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sau-Ling Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dancing in the Diaspora
9 Dancing in the Diaspora: “Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism” and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association was published in Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China on page 126
Asian America.Net
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Circuits/Cycles of Desire
Among contemporary Chinese American writers, Russell Leong strikes me as one of handful most readily identifiable with diasporic sensibility, if the term is taken to refer to conventional definitions of diaspora derived from the Babylonian exile of the Jews (e.g., Safran).2 In his poetry collected in The Country of Dreams and Dust (1993) and fiction collected in Phoenix Eyes (2000), Leong writes with exquisite sensitivity about the global displac…
Dancing in the Diaspora
This essay analyzes the history of a San Francisco Bay Area cultural institution over a period of more than four decades, and, applying to it the concept of "cultural long-distance nationalism," it attempts to tease apart the complexity of cultural practice in diaspora. The organization in question is the Chinese Folk Dance Association (CFDA), founded in 1959, a pro-People’s Republic of China (PRC) troupe of amateur dancers and musicians playing …
Middle-Class Asian American Women in a Global Frame
Middle-Class Asian American Women in a Global Frame: Refiguring the Statue of Liberty in Divakaruni and Minatoya Get access Sau-ling C. Wong Sau-ling C. Wong 1University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 183–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141850 Published: 01 September 2004
A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas for teaching well-known American works.Each essay contains information about the work (e.g., its publication or production history), its popular and critical reception, a biographical sketch of the author, the historical context, major theme…
Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior"
Introduction PART I: SETTING FORTH ISSUES AND DEBATES A Chinese Woman's Response to Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior The Most Popular Book in China Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiography Controversy PART II: GENDER, GENRE, AND THEORY Filiality and Woman's Autobiographical Storytelling No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxi…
Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiographical Controversy
Maxine hong kingston ‘ s autobiography, The Woman Warrior, may be the best-known contemporary work of Asian-American literature. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best book of nonfiction published in 1976, The Woman Warrior remains healthily in print and on the reading lists of numerous college courses; excerpts from it are routinely featured in anthologies with a multicultural slant. It is safe to say that many readers who…
Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work’s historical c…
Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
Multiple Discourses, Multiple Identities
In this article, Sandra McKay and Sau-Ling Wong argue for a revision of code-based and individual learner-based views of second-language learning. Their position is based on a two-year qualitative study of adolescent Chinese-immigrant students conducted in California in the early 1990s, in which the authors and their research associates followed four Mandarin-speaking students through seventh and eighth grades, periodically interviewing them and …
Denationalization Reconsidered
(1995). Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 1-28
Multiple Reconciliations
Ethnic Subject, Ethnic Sign, and the Difficulty of Rehabilitative Representation
Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, Ethnic Subject, Ethnic Sign, and the Difficulty of Rehabilitative Representation: Chinatown in Some Works of Chinese American Fiction, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 24, Ethnicity and Representation in American Literature (1994), pp. 251-262
Reading Asian American Literature
Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy, 1850-1990
Reading Asian American Literature
A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" ca…
Language diversity, problem or resource?
Necessity and Extravagance in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
Necessity and Extravagance in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Art and the Ethnic Experience Get access Sau-ling Cynthia Wong Sau-ling Cynthia Wong University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 1988, Pages 3–26, https://doi.org/10.2307/467038 Published: 01 March 1988
Tales of Postwar Chinatown
Denationalization Reconsidered
(1995). Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 1-28
Dancing in the Diaspora
This essay analyzes the history of a San Francisco Bay Area cultural institution over a period of more than four decades, and, applying to it the concept of "cultural long-distance nationalism," it attempts to tease apart the complexity of cultural practice in diaspora. The organization in question is the Chinese Folk Dance Association (CFDA), founded in 1959, a pro-People’s Republic of China (PRC) troupe of amateur dancers and musicians playing …
Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
Language diversity, problem or resource?
Necessity and Extravagance in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
Necessity and Extravagance in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Art and the Ethnic Experience Get access Sau-ling Cynthia Wong Sau-ling Cynthia Wong University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 1988, Pages 3–26, https://doi.org/10.2307/467038 Published: 01 March 1988
Tales of Postwar Chinatown
Reading Asian American Literature
A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" ca…
Ethnic Subject, Ethnic Sign, and the Difficulty of Rehabilitative Representation
Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, Ethnic Subject, Ethnic Sign, and the Difficulty of Rehabilitative Representation: Chinatown in Some Works of Chinese American Fiction, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 24, Ethnicity and Representation in American Literature (1994), pp. 251-262
Reading Asian American Literature
Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy, 1850-1990
Denationalization Reconsidered
(1995). Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 21, No. 1-2, pp. 1-28
Multiple Reconciliations
Multiple Discourses, Multiple Identities
In this article, Sandra McKay and Sau-Ling Wong argue for a revision of code-based and individual learner-based views of second-language learning. Their position is based on a two-year qualitative study of adolescent Chinese-immigrant students conducted in California in the early 1990s, in which the authors and their research associates followed four Mandarin-speaking students through seventh and eighth grades, periodically interviewing them and …
Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiographical Controversy
Maxine hong kingston ‘ s autobiography, The Woman Warrior, may be the best-known contemporary work of Asian-American literature. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best book of nonfiction published in 1976, The Woman Warrior remains healthily in print and on the reading lists of numerous college courses; excerpts from it are routinely featured in anthologies with a multicultural slant. It is safe to say that many readers who…
Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work’s historical c…
Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior"
Introduction PART I: SETTING FORTH ISSUES AND DEBATES A Chinese Woman's Response to Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior The Most Popular Book in China Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiography Controversy PART II: GENDER, GENRE, AND THEORY Filiality and Woman's Autobiographical Storytelling No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxi…
A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas for teaching well-known American works.Each essay contains information about the work (e.g., its publication or production history), its popular and critical reception, a biographical sketch of the author, the historical context, major theme…
Middle-Class Asian American Women in a Global Frame
Middle-Class Asian American Women in a Global Frame: Refiguring the Statue of Liberty in Divakaruni and Minatoya Get access Sau-ling C. Wong Sau-ling C. Wong 1University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 183–210, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141850 Published: 01 September 2004
Dancing in the Diaspora
This essay analyzes the history of a San Francisco Bay Area cultural institution over a period of more than four decades, and, applying to it the concept of "cultural long-distance nationalism," it attempts to tease apart the complexity of cultural practice in diaspora. The organization in question is the Chinese Folk Dance Association (CFDA), founded in 1959, a pro-People’s Republic of China (PRC) troupe of amateur dancers and musicians playing …
Circuits/Cycles of Desire
Among contemporary Chinese American writers, Russell Leong strikes me as one of handful most readily identifiable with diasporic sensibility, if the term is taken to refer to conventional definitions of diaspora derived from the Babylonian exile of the Jews (e.g., Safran).2 In his poetry collected in The Country of Dreams and Dust (1993) and fiction collected in Phoenix Eyes (2000), Leong writes with exquisite sensitivity about the global displac…
Dancing in the Diaspora
9 Dancing in the Diaspora: “Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism” and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association was published in Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China on page 126
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Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age
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