Fanning Out Possibilities
Dung Kai-cheung and the Multiplicities of Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19520876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meng Wu (0000-0001-8504-6398, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 420-444 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1520-9857 • E-ISSN: 2328-966X |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/mclc.2022.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W4315477031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Hong Kong has brought to world literature some of the most prolific and best-loved fiction writers in modern Chinese history. Dung Kai-cheung is one of them — a Hong Kong-based writer who has found the city to be a constant source of inspiration. This article discusses the significance of multiplicity in Dung’s fictional representation of Hong Kong (“the V-City”), focusing on his 2007 novel Histories of Time: The Luster of Mute Porcelain. In this novel, Dung explores the narrative possibility of perceiving Hong Kong as a multi-historical space through the lens of multiplying temporalities. I have coined the term “V-shaped time” to refer to this multiplication of characters and archaeology of ideas. Time, in Dung’s work, fans out with multiple possibilities of individual and collective experiences in history, with mirrored Vs resembling an hourglass. In this stratified narrative, characters create their fictional selves in their own writing. Identifying the creative self as a literary architect, Dung’s fictional writing challenges the reader to rethink a local history that has been marginalized in the linear narrative of colonial modernity
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · History of literature · Literacy · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Orality · Politics · Sociology · Temporalities · Theology · Anthropology · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |