Josh Stenberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 729387 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Josh Stenberg |
| NOMBRES | Josh |
| APELLIDO | Stenberg |
| FIRMA | STENBERG J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6832-2909 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
To be numbered among the continents’
Australian Triptych in Chinese-Language Migrant Fiction
White Snakes, Black Snakes, and Indonesia in the Global Network of Chinese Narratives
This article explores the adaptation and indigenization of the Chinese White Snake narrative in Indonesia. While Liang Luo’s work has mapped the story’s transformations across East Asian and Anglophone contexts, this study highlights Indonesia’s significant role as transformer of Chinese cultural narratives such as White Snake. Tracing the White Snake story in the archipelago from the late nineteenth century, the article examines early Malay tran…
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait
In recent decades, the xiqu (‘Chinese opera’) genre of kunqu has grown in domestic and international prominence and is now an important part of PRC soft power and heritage projects. This article examines how Taiwanese institutions and aficionados contributed to the genre’s material revival. It does so by examining their involvement in kunqu in the 15 years before the UNESCO recognition that marked the genre’s improved fortunes. The engagement of …
Chinese Troupes on Tour in Latin America
Long closely and narrowly focused on practices in (and representations sanctioned by) the polities of cultural China, academic research is increasingly attentive to the global and even multiethnic reach of Chinese performance past and present. Chinese performance history in many regions of the world is becoming gradually more visible, including in maritime Southeast Asia, Australia, and the United Kingdom.1 Nevertheless, barriers of genre, langua…
Performing the Socialist State
Remembering and Forgetting June Fourth 1989 in Australia’s Sinophone Narratives
De contractarbeiders van Deli
Indes néerlandaises et culture chinoise. Deux traductions malaises du Roman des Trois Royaumes (1910–1913) , by Ge Song
Under the Red-and-White Flag
Hei Ying’s 1950 novella Under the Red-and-White Flag concerns the Chinese-speaking institutions and community in Jakarta as they respond to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Far from the sultry exoticism of his earlier Nanyang (South Seas) texts, this work turned towards a socialist realism broadly in line with the policies of the Chinese Communist Party and prepared Hei Ying for his subsequent career as a “returned Overseas Ch…
Chinese-Australian Culture in a Sinophone History and Geography
This article proposes to view Australian Chinese cultural products through a Sinophone studies lens to clarify the position of Australia in transnational patterns of Chinese-language cultural production. Three examples illustrate how Sinophone studies can expand research on Chinese-language culture in Australia, by showing them to also be instances of wider phenomena: Chinese-language theatre, Federation-era fiction, and the foreign student liter…
Diverse fragility, fragile diversity
Attending to postwar Chinese-language letters in Indonesia and the Philippines reveals a stronger tendency to write within a discourse of long-distance cultural nationalism than in hybrid or local modes. Omitting cultural nationalist discourses from a view of the corpus risks skewing accounts of Sinophone production, since many authors who write in Chinese have been receptive to ethnic, cultural, and even political appeals from China. This result…
From Pulau to Pulo
Southeast Asia is an important region for working through questions of Chineseness. It is, however, a notoriously heterogeneous region, and conclusions derived from some parts of it can be of limited applicability elsewhere. This special issue offering empirically-grounded, multi-disciplinary research engages with and expands on existing scholarship on Southeast Asia’s Chinese. By focusing on Indonesia and the Philippines, the articles in this sp…
Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance
Dragon King in a contentious sea
Interculturalism in theatre, although much critiqued, is an inevitable category for understanding theatre practices and histories. Critical approaches have highlighted the complicity of “hegemonic” Euro-American-led theatre with imperialist structures. Newer critiques tend to focus on encounters in European languages in multicultural cities, and to posit multilateral non-Western collaborations as liberated from colonial power structures. This pap…
Opera Diplomacy
In 1960, as part of the early People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) cultural diplomacy, a troupe of almost one hundred Chinese performers and officials visited Canada, where they were widely identified as the “Peking Opera.” This was the high Cold War, ten years before Canada would recognize the PRC. Internal government documents show that granting permission for the opera visit constituted a considerable shift in Canadian policy, allowing a large-s…
Finding the Distant Homeland Here
This article focuses on three themes in contemporary Chinese-language verse from Indonesia: nationhood, language use, and the trauma of history. Through these themes, Chinese-language poets in Indonesia work through the many ways of being a speaker of Chinese in Indonesia, sometimes as an excluded alien, sometimes as a valued ally, and sometimes as an integrated minority. Such work provides unusual perspectives and tones to contribute to the much…
Coolie Legend on the Deli Plantation
This article traces one narrative of anti-colonial violence on the Sumatra plantation through various Sinophone iterations and establishes the historical events on which it was based. The European anxiety about the defiance of the condemned Chinese men shows how this particular event turned into oral legend, religious observance, touring socialist theatre, leftist fiction, and a PRC Third World internationalist travelogue. In one moment of bravur…
The Woman with No Escape
The Zhu Maichen story originates as a case of ‘female-initiated divorce' in an ancient Chinese biography, before later becoming a familiar late imperial narrative. In the last hundred years, it has featured as a prominent part of the narrative heritage available for operatic reworking. The absence of a canonical authorial version gives more space for playwrights and performers to incorporate their current perspectives of gender and sexuality into…
Christianity on the Taiwanese Traditional Stage
Xiqu (“Chinese opera”) is often associated with religion, but usually not with Christianity. Over the last twenty years, troupes in the Taiwanese genre of gezaixi, funded by Protestant churches, have sought to find new audiences through the performance of bible stories. This article argues that such endeavors, known as “gospel” gezaixi, constitute a conscious effort on the part of Taiwanese Protestants to eliminate the barrier still presumed betw…
From the (Tang) General to the (Jakarta) Specific
Perhaps the most familiar “Chinese” narrative in Indonesia involves the Tang general Xue Rengui. This article examines the process of transformation that turned Xue into first a hero of fiction and drama in late imperial China, then of a major narrative in late colonial Dutch East Indies culture, and recently – in the more permissive atmosphere of post-Suharto Indonesia – of a commercial theatre series. That last work, a tetralogy by Teater Koma,…
Xiqu in the Philippines
Evidence of xiqu (“Chinese opera”) in the Philippines begins in the early 16th century, when the Catholic church sought to suppress it. Despite its longevity, Philippine xiqu has not featured much in the multidisciplinary study of ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, nor as part of the global turn in xiqu research. This article, attending to the history and contemporary practice of xiqu , situates the Philippines and especially Manila firmly in the…
Soft power from Ningxia to Cairo
Literary translation is a major part of China’s present soft power push. Substantial attention and resources are for the first time being directed to the translation of Chinese literature into Arabic, in line with the geopolitical agenda of China’s Going Global ambitions and the Belt and Road Initiative. This article provides a historical overview of Chinese-to-Arabic translation of modern and contemporary literature, with a focus on the growth a…
The Lost Keychain? Contemporary Chinese-Language Writing in Indonesia
Amanda Rogers, Performing Asian transnationalisms
"Amanda Rogers, Performing Asian transnationalisms: theatre, identity and the geographies of performance." Asian Ethnicity, 18(4), pp. 594–595
Coolie Legend on the Deli Plantation
This article traces one narrative of anti-colonial violence on the Sumatra plantation through various Sinophone iterations and establishes the historical events on which it was based. The European anxiety about the defiance of the condemned Chinese men shows how this particular event turned into oral legend, religious observance, touring socialist theatre, leftist fiction, and a PRC Third World internationalist travelogue. In one moment of bravur…
The Lost Keychain? Contemporary Chinese-Language Writing in Indonesia
Xiqu in the Philippines
Evidence of xiqu (“Chinese opera”) in the Philippines begins in the early 16th century, when the Catholic church sought to suppress it. Despite its longevity, Philippine xiqu has not featured much in the multidisciplinary study of ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, nor as part of the global turn in xiqu research. This article, attending to the history and contemporary practice of xiqu , situates the Philippines and especially Manila firmly in the…
Localizing Chinese migrants in Africa
Before the 21st century, Chinese presence in Libya was minimal. In the last years of the Gaddafi regime, however, a large-scale temporary migrant community quickly formed. Then, as unrest in Libya increased, the community was withdrawn abruptly in early 2011 in China's first officially organized mass evacuation. This short-lived community does not display the characteristics associated with Chinese migration to Africa as a whole, suggesting the n…
Soft power from Ningxia to Cairo
Literary translation is a major part of China’s present soft power push. Substantial attention and resources are for the first time being directed to the translation of Chinese literature into Arabic, in line with the geopolitical agenda of China’s Going Global ambitions and the Belt and Road Initiative. This article provides a historical overview of Chinese-to-Arabic translation of modern and contemporary literature, with a focus on the growth a…
The Chinese of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, is also home to one of the largest Chinese populations in Latin America, with only Lima being indubitably larger. This paper briefly describes the history and present situation of the Chinese community in São Paulo, with a focus on the contemporary mainland Chinese who make up the majority. The fieldwork for this research was conducted in the months of March to June 2011, and the findings are based on the account…
Flash Cards by Yu Jian, Wang Ping, Ron Padgett
ofanything resembling thepoetic. The finalpages ofthetext, pages 126 through 150,are in factlines of poetryand are in factamong thebest pages in thebook; they themselves are worththepriceof admission.However,we are still leftwitha deeplyunevenbookof prosemixedwithsomepoetry that has been,forsomereason,highly praisedas a bookofpoetry. Thispartial disconnect between thequality ofwriting andthepraise afforded thewriting makesus ask howmuch weoweaboo…
The Chinese of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, is also home to one of the largest Chinese populations in Latin America, with only Lima being indubitably larger. This paper briefly describes the history and present situation of the Chinese community in São Paulo, with a focus on the contemporary mainland Chinese who make up the majority. The fieldwork for this research was conducted in the months of March to June 2011, and the findings are based on the account…
A Phone Call from DalianDoubled Shadows
68 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews very refreshing, indeed—and, dare I say, necessary. Shellie McCullough University of Texas, Dallas C. P. Cavafy. Complete Plus: The Poems of C. P. Cavafy in English. George Economou with Stavros Deligiorgis, tr. Bristol, United Kingdom. Shearsman. 2013. isbn 9781848612662 When Plato compared Greeks to frogs around a pond, he probably could not have envisioned the eventual extent of the Greek diaspora. Alexandri…
Staging Female-initiated Divorce
Traditional theatre narratives in China have altered to accommodate changing gender attitudes over the last century. One such narrative, the Zhu Maichen story, revolves around a female-initiated divorce. Though traditionally a reviled figure, in recent and contemporary theatre Zhu’s story is reoriented to make the transgressive woman either more of a victim of feudal society, or blameworthy for reasons unrelated to the divorce. What is called ‘tr…
Localizing Chinese migrants in Africa
Before the 21st century, Chinese presence in Libya was minimal. In the last years of the Gaddafi regime, however, a large-scale temporary migrant community quickly formed. Then, as unrest in Libya increased, the community was withdrawn abruptly in early 2011 in China's first officially organized mass evacuation. This short-lived community does not display the characteristics associated with Chinese migration to Africa as a whole, suggesting the n…
Durians Are Not the Only Fruit by Wong Yoon Wah
reviews Warren Motte. Mirror Gazing. Champaign, Illinois. Dalkey Archive Press. 2014. isbn 9781628970142 What do we see when we read? For Warren Motte, the question is more properly stated, what do we see reflected when we read? This is a book first and foremost about the literature of self-regard. Over the course of his career as a decorated scholar of French and comparative literature, Motte has amassed a collection of over ten thousandscenesin…
Wayang potehi
This article examines wayang potehi , a cloth glove puppet theatre of southern Fujian origin performed on Java. It outlines the genre's emergence in Fujian, its arrival in the archipelago, and historical and contemporary practice. This article seeks to respect potehi's Hokkien roots, Indonesian practice, and the place of its genre in a dynamic regional history as it traces the development, practice and uses of the genre. Contemporary potehi patro…
Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin
66 WLT SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2015 as “something new in South African writing ,” but I would have preferred to have had a clearer sense of his origin, his country , and his Afrikaans identity rather than the European ambience of the majority of the stories. Janet Mary Livesey University of Central Oklahoma Qiu Miaojin. Last Words from Montmartre. Ari Larissa Heinrich, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. isbn 9781590177259. One cannot be quali…
Points of Origin by Diao Dou
ing of the tapes reveals many astonishing things. Volume 3 promises to be an apocalyptic climax. Jeffrey Zuckerman New York City Diao Dou. Points of Origin. Trans. Brendan O’Kane. Manchester. Comma Press. 2015. 218 pages. A collection of nine short stories, Points of Origin is the first volume of Shenyang writer Diao Dou’s work to appear in English . Born in 1960, he belongs to the same generation as Mo Yan, Yu Hua, and Su Tong, and he shares wit…
The Lost Keychain? Contemporary Chinese-Language Writing in Indonesia
Amanda Rogers, Performing Asian transnationalisms
"Amanda Rogers, Performing Asian transnationalisms: theatre, identity and the geographies of performance." Asian Ethnicity, 18(4), pp. 594–595
Mostly Young Women with Quite Traditional Tastes
Whether in China or outside of it, xiqu (Chinese opera) observers and practitioners often make the claim that xiqu audiences are elderly and vanishing, and that there is no substantial national market for xiqu productions in present-day China. For these reasons, both innovation and reform are thought to be required to rejuvenate audiences. Based on audience questionnaires from a 2013 national tour of the Fujian Province Liyuan Experimental Theatr…
Soft power from Ningxia to Cairo
Literary translation is a major part of China’s present soft power push. Substantial attention and resources are for the first time being directed to the translation of Chinese literature into Arabic, in line with the geopolitical agenda of China’s Going Global ambitions and the Belt and Road Initiative. This article provides a historical overview of Chinese-to-Arabic translation of modern and contemporary literature, with a focus on the growth a…
Christianity on the Taiwanese Traditional Stage
Xiqu (“Chinese opera”) is often associated with religion, but usually not with Christianity. Over the last twenty years, troupes in the Taiwanese genre of gezaixi, funded by Protestant churches, have sought to find new audiences through the performance of bible stories. This article argues that such endeavors, known as “gospel” gezaixi, constitute a conscious effort on the part of Taiwanese Protestants to eliminate the barrier still presumed betw…
From the (Tang) General to the (Jakarta) Specific
Perhaps the most familiar “Chinese” narrative in Indonesia involves the Tang general Xue Rengui. This article examines the process of transformation that turned Xue into first a hero of fiction and drama in late imperial China, then of a major narrative in late colonial Dutch East Indies culture, and recently – in the more permissive atmosphere of post-Suharto Indonesia – of a commercial theatre series. That last work, a tetralogy by Teater Koma,…
Xiqu in the Philippines
Evidence of xiqu (“Chinese opera”) in the Philippines begins in the early 16th century, when the Catholic church sought to suppress it. Despite its longevity, Philippine xiqu has not featured much in the multidisciplinary study of ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, nor as part of the global turn in xiqu research. This article, attending to the history and contemporary practice of xiqu , situates the Philippines and especially Manila firmly in the…
The Woman with No Escape
The Zhu Maichen story originates as a case of ‘female-initiated divorce' in an ancient Chinese biography, before later becoming a familiar late imperial narrative. In the last hundred years, it has featured as a prominent part of the narrative heritage available for operatic reworking. The absence of a canonical authorial version gives more space for playwrights and performers to incorporate their current perspectives of gender and sexuality into…
Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance
Dragon King in a contentious sea
Interculturalism in theatre, although much critiqued, is an inevitable category for understanding theatre practices and histories. Critical approaches have highlighted the complicity of “hegemonic” Euro-American-led theatre with imperialist structures. Newer critiques tend to focus on encounters in European languages in multicultural cities, and to posit multilateral non-Western collaborations as liberated from colonial power structures. This pap…
Opera Diplomacy
In 1960, as part of the early People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) cultural diplomacy, a troupe of almost one hundred Chinese performers and officials visited Canada, where they were widely identified as the “Peking Opera.” This was the high Cold War, ten years before Canada would recognize the PRC. Internal government documents show that granting permission for the opera visit constituted a considerable shift in Canadian policy, allowing a large-s…
Finding the Distant Homeland Here
This article focuses on three themes in contemporary Chinese-language verse from Indonesia: nationhood, language use, and the trauma of history. Through these themes, Chinese-language poets in Indonesia work through the many ways of being a speaker of Chinese in Indonesia, sometimes as an excluded alien, sometimes as a valued ally, and sometimes as an integrated minority. Such work provides unusual perspectives and tones to contribute to the much…
Coolie Legend on the Deli Plantation
This article traces one narrative of anti-colonial violence on the Sumatra plantation through various Sinophone iterations and establishes the historical events on which it was based. The European anxiety about the defiance of the condemned Chinese men shows how this particular event turned into oral legend, religious observance, touring socialist theatre, leftist fiction, and a PRC Third World internationalist travelogue. In one moment of bravur…
Indes néerlandaises et culture chinoise. Deux traductions malaises du Roman des Trois Royaumes (1910–1913) , by Ge Song
Under the Red-and-White Flag
Hei Ying’s 1950 novella Under the Red-and-White Flag concerns the Chinese-speaking institutions and community in Jakarta as they respond to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Far from the sultry exoticism of his earlier Nanyang (South Seas) texts, this work turned towards a socialist realism broadly in line with the policies of the Chinese Communist Party and prepared Hei Ying for his subsequent career as a “returned Overseas Ch…
Chinese-Australian Culture in a Sinophone History and Geography
This article proposes to view Australian Chinese cultural products through a Sinophone studies lens to clarify the position of Australia in transnational patterns of Chinese-language cultural production. Three examples illustrate how Sinophone studies can expand research on Chinese-language culture in Australia, by showing them to also be instances of wider phenomena: Chinese-language theatre, Federation-era fiction, and the foreign student liter…
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