Deep Imperial Time in Sinophone Poetics of History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3620463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wayne C F Yeung (0000-0001-8671-0617, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-40 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00219118-10875304 |
| OpenAlex | W4389232662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article examines three Sinophone cultural texts to suggest that Sinophone studies can draw from its affinities with historical and linguistic studies to question the conceptual boundary of "premodern" imperial China. Through case studies of Hou Hsiao-hsien from Taiwan and Saisai (Xi Xi) and Wong Bik-wan from Hong Kong, the article proposes "deep imperial time" as a Sinophone historical poetics and cultural strategy of deimperialization. Artists turn their Sinophone sensibilities into a historiographical method that intervenes in nation-centric history and performs a capacious form of localization. Marginality from the normative nation-state and interimperial positionality compel them to enact decentered visions of historical Chineseness and imagine anti-imperial solidarities with the margins of different imperial formations across history. The article concludes that Sinophone studies can contribute to the conceptual enlargement of decoloniality by incorporating subaltern experiences in contesting non-Western empires
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Epistemology · Historiography · History of China · Literature · Normative · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subaltern · Vision · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
Born Translated
Visuality and IdentitySinophone Articulations across the Pacific
Planetary Modernisms
Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919
Stateless Subjects
Inter-imperiality
Ancient China and the Yue
Ethnic Identity in Tang China
Sinography
On Decoloniality
Born in Translation
Rethinking the History of Chinese Empires from the Sinophone South
Rescuing History from the Nation
Poetics of relation
Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960
Cultural China
The Making of Barbarians
Sinophone Classicism
Buddhism and the Rise of the Written Vernacular in East Asia
Overlapping Histories, Co-produced Concepts
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |