Titlebook: Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet; Sheng-mei Ma Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Comparative Cultural Studi

CLAM

Asiatic Aspie: Millennial (ab)Use of Asperger’s Syndromees Aspie with Asiatic, both betokening the Other, the opposite to neurotypicals and Western universalism. When the mystique of Orientalized Aspies in Western texts morphs into that of their doppelganger of Occidentalized Aspies in Eastern texts, qualitative changes occur.

bronchodilator

Gene Luen Yang’s Graphic Bi-Bye to China/Town bountiful bi-heritage is to be in denial of the good-bye to racial roots, since the farewell’s genesis of “God be with you” doubles back to Yang’s abiding Christian and U.S. West Coast identity in a career in search of, ironically, Chineseness.

仪式

Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest in Chang-Rae Lee and Bich Minh NguyenAsian birthright is alleged to be intrinsic, intuited somehow by Asian Americans, it could arguably be a self-essentializing move to fashion an identity for a foothold in the multiethnic American community. To assume an Asian birthright then secures an Anglo-American bequest, as in Lee and Nguyen.

ASSET

山崩

: The Chinese Box by Puccini, Zeffirelli, Zhang, and Chenirelli production at the Metropolitan Opera. It concludes with two fifth-generation auteurs, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, both having handled with extreme aesthetic care their Italian inheritance, if also with extreme conceptual carelessness.

LUT

Speaking (of the) Dragon: Slain by the West, Ridden by the East of core Chineseness. Speak of the devil, to slay or to enslave—that is the choice the West and the East has made respectively, exemplified by the tenth-century . and the sixteenth-century Chinese classic . (.).

警告

fallible

向外供接触

incarcerate

Millennial Taiwan Food Films: Naming and Epicurean Curemmunity. Taiwan is, de facto, a sacrificial lamb amidst superpowers’ struggle for dominance. Torn and disemboweled by the wolf packs of China, the U.S., and Japan, its nearly severed head dreams of, urgently, a fusion menu of native Taiwanese, mainland Chinese, Japanese, and Western food and drink to fill the gut that feels strangely empty.