Overview
In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories, and fiction of the period jointly narrate pirates and China’s Orient in maritime Asia. Wang shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the “other”: foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors. At the center of the discourses, early modern concepts of empire, race, and authenticity were intensively negotiated. Connecting late Ming literature to the global maritime world, Writing Pirates expands current discussions of Chinese diaspora and debates on Sinophone language and identity.
Full Product Details
Author: Yuanfei Wang
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9780472132546
ISBN 10: 0472132547
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 23 June 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Writing Pirates is a thought-provoking and challenging book that makes a significant contribution to the fields of Chinese literature and history. --Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)-- Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)
""Reads do not need a background in Chinese history and literature to appreciate this study. Its major contribution might be in pushing scholars more familiar with maritime violence in other seas to break out of Eurocentric frameworks for thinking about early modern maritime imaginaries and the conquest of the sea.""--The Great Circle -- ""The Great Circle"" ""Writing Pirates is a bountiful and valuable treasure for any academic library where literature and piracy are popular fields of study. . ."" --Pirates and Privateers: The History of Maritime Piracy--Cindy Vallar ""Pirates and Privateers: The History of Maritime Piracy"" ""...by drawing rich connections between fiction and a wide variety of other writings, Writing Pirates casts new light on the genre and the broader ""discourse of pirates"" running through it. It fuses historiography and the imagination of the other, opening the door for a range of further inquiries for scholars of late Ming literature and comparative early modernities alike."" --The Journal of Asian Studies-- ""The Journal of Asian Studies"" ""Writing Pirates is a thought-provoking and challenging book that makes a significant contribution to the fields of Chinese literature and history."" --Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)-- ""Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)""
"""...by drawing rich connections between fiction and a wide variety of other writings, Writing Pirates casts new light on the genre and the broader ""discourse of pirates"" running through it. It fuses historiography and the imagination of the other, opening the door for a range of further inquiries for scholars of late Ming literature and comparative early modernities alike."" --The Journal of Asian Studies-- ""The Journal of Asian Studies"" ""Writing Pirates is a thought-provoking and challenging book that makes a significant contribution to the fields of Chinese literature and history."" --Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)-- ""Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)"""
Author Information
Yuanfei Wang is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
