Gendering displacement

Nieh Hualing’s re-membering refugee students during the Second Sino-Japanese War

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ID12905558
AuthorsLinshan Jiang (0000-0002-7763-8243, Duke University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume17
Issue1
Pages21-38
Publication date2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17506980231214637
OpenAlexW4392059550
LanguageEN
References cited22

This article analyzes the representation of Nieh Hualing’s war memory as a refugee student during the Second Sino-Japanese War in her creative writings, especially Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, in intertextual conversation with her autobiography, Three Lives. By centering the intersectional experience of a female refugee student, the analysis enriches war narratives with a combination of diasporic and feminist perspectives on daily life distinguishing itself from male-dominated battlefields. While her war experience as a refugee student constitutes her “first life” in war-torn mainland China among her “three lives” in mainland China, Taiwan, and the United States, Nieh as a writer constantly negotiates with her Chineseness and inquires about her positionality in the world when moving across cultures. While Nieh as a writer embodies a “Chinese cosmopolitanism,” the female protagonist in Mulberry and Peach uses “hypersexuality” to reject patriarchal society and ethnocentric nationalism and go beyond Chinese cosmopolitanism

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Displacement (psychology · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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