Fu-jen Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fu-jen Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fu-jen |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8936-5062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing the Neoliberal Body: Alienation, Plenitude Fantasies, and the Ethics of the Public in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
This article situates Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown (2020) at the nexus of Asian American literary history and neoliberal cultural critique. Reading the novel through Lacanian psychoanalysis and neoliberal theory, it demonstrates how Yu exposes the disciplinary scripts of adaptability and resilience that convert Asian bodies into fungible units of human capital under neoliberal multiculturalism. By tracing a genealogy from the Page and Chinese …
Love Thy Neighbor”: Neuroculture, Fundamentalism, and the Other in Gish Jen’s World and Town
This article explores the parallax relationship that runs through two coexisting, yet irreconcilable viewpoints in Gish Jen’s World and Town: mind/body, reason/faith, and self/other, respectively, in the scientific, religious, and political realms. The first part, “A World of Neuro-Cognitivism,” probes the neurobiological parallax binary constructed by Carter and Hattie—the neuronal and the mental. The second part, “A Town of Faith,” investigates…
Maternal Voices in Personal Narratives of Adoption
Across disciplines including literature, anthropology, psychology, law, politics, and social work, there is a rapidly growing body of scholarship on adoption. With the expansion of the global econo
Picture Books on Asian Transnational/-Racial Adoption
After an exploration on the function of picture books on Asian transnational/-racial adoption, this essay examines selected picture books that are divided into two groups: pre- and post-legal adoption narratives. I argue that in the course of demystifying the mono-ethnic or mono-cultural norm of kinship and family, a re-mystification simultaneously occurs in the narratives of both pre- and post-legal adoption picture books. Picture books may func…
Body and Female Subjectivity in Cathy Song’s Picture Bride
Identified as a Hawaiian, a Korean-American, or a Chinese-American Poet, Cathy Song was born to a Korean-American father and a Chinese-American mother in 1955 in Honolulu, where she has spent most
Picture Books on Asian Transnational/-Racial Adoption
After an exploration on the function of picture books on Asian transnational/-racial adoption, this essay examines selected picture books that are divided into two groups: pre- and post-legal adoption narratives. I argue that in the course of demystifying the mono-ethnic or mono-cultural norm of kinship and family, a re-mystification simultaneously occurs in the narratives of both pre- and post-legal adoption picture books. Picture books may func…
Body and Female Subjectivity in Cathy Song’s Picture Bride
Identified as a Hawaiian, a Korean-American, or a Chinese-American Poet, Cathy Song was born to a Korean-American father and a Chinese-American mother in 1955 in Honolulu, where she has spent most
Picture Books on Asian Transnational/-Racial Adoption
After an exploration on the function of picture books on Asian transnational/-racial adoption, this essay examines selected picture books that are divided into two groups: pre- and post-legal adoption narratives. I argue that in the course of demystifying the mono-ethnic or mono-cultural norm of kinship and family, a re-mystification simultaneously occurs in the narratives of both pre- and post-legal adoption picture books. Picture books may func…
Maternal Voices in Personal Narratives of Adoption
Across disciplines including literature, anthropology, psychology, law, politics, and social work, there is a rapidly growing body of scholarship on adoption. With the expansion of the global econo
Love Thy Neighbor”: Neuroculture, Fundamentalism, and the Other in Gish Jen’s World and Town
This article explores the parallax relationship that runs through two coexisting, yet irreconcilable viewpoints in Gish Jen’s World and Town: mind/body, reason/faith, and self/other, respectively, in the scientific, religious, and political realms. The first part, “A World of Neuro-Cognitivism,” probes the neurobiological parallax binary constructed by Carter and Hattie—the neuronal and the mental. The second part, “A Town of Faith,” investigates…
Performing the Neoliberal Body: Alienation, Plenitude Fantasies, and the Ethics of the Public in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
This article situates Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown (2020) at the nexus of Asian American literary history and neoliberal cultural critique. Reading the novel through Lacanian psychoanalysis and neoliberal theory, it demonstrates how Yu exposes the disciplinary scripts of adaptability and resilience that convert Asian bodies into fungible units of human capital under neoliberal multiculturalism. By tracing a genealogy from the Page and Chinese …
Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works)