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

时间等

神经

Enervate

Asiatic Aspie: Millennial (ab)Use of Asperger’s Syndromekers have been taking an “aspic license” in their use or abuse of Asperger’s Syndrome for characterization and plot. A mental disability turns out to enable lead characters in their respective pursuits, as in the British TV comedy . (2004–2013) and Mai Jia’s Chinese spy thriller . (2002). . associat

兴奋过度

火光在摇曳

VOC

synovitis

枪支

沉默

任意

Fed (Up) with Gyoza and Vodka: , Forbidden Fruit of Alterity13. Japan’s and South Korea’s texts share in the ambiguity of eating and vomiting, of consuming to sustain life and being consumed in a slow death, of loving and hating the tabooed. All three Japanese, Korean, and American protagonists are devoured by respective societies, kept barely alive by daily