语言的铁幕 汤亭亭与美国的东方主义PDF电子书下载

Preface 1

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 The Iron Curtain of Language： Place and Placement 17

The Iron Curtain of Language 17

Place and Placement 31

The Glass Ceiling of Gender and Genre 38

Chapter 2 The Postmodern Chaotic Arabesque and the Oriental Wife’s Tale： A Replacement and Re-Orientation 52

The Exotic Is Familiar： Arabian Nights and American Chimera 52

The East Is in the West： From Diotima to Flower Orchid 62

The Economics of Exploitation in Literary Exchanges 64

The Woman Warrior as a Postmodern Chaotic Arabesque 67

Chapter 3 Translating a Heroic Tradition of Chinese Women：The Woman Warrior 74

The Missionary Tradition and the Heroic Tradition 74

The River-Merchant’s Wife and the Master Narrative of American Orientalism 95

The Myth of No Name Woman and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter 108

Transnational Influence and Revolutionary Theater 119

Golden Mountain Women and the Might of a Mother Tongue 126

The Legacy of “the Eastern Palace” in the Disneyland of Western Movies 144

Daughters of Immortal Fame on the Borderland of Barbarian Battlefields 167

The Redemption of a Woman Writer in Chinese History ， Poetry ，and Play 177

Chapter 4 Deconstructing the Master Narrative of the Yellow Peril： China Men 193

Literary Fathers Chinese and American：“On Discovery” of Flowers in the Mirror 193

The Coolie Fiction and the Yellow Peril：Media and Missionary Power 207

Life， Liberty， and the Pursuit of Happiness：From the Sandalwood to the Sierra Nevada Mountains 229

Literacy， Laws， and the Legacy of Language：“The Father from China” and “The Wild Man of the Green Swamp ” 256

Wars and Wisdom of Survivors：“The American Father” and “The Brother in Vietnam ” 275

Translation and the Mortality of the Teacher’s Tongue：“The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun” 293

Chapter 5 Re-Orienting American Orientalism through the Black Curtain in a Puppet Show： Tripmaster Monkey 303

“Hippies， Indians， Chinese， Quakers， Women Martin Luther King Jr.，and Vegetarians ” 304

“She was no China Man the way he was China Man” 311

Wittman Ah Sing/Whitman I Sing/Wit Man Ah Sing/Noman Asing/No Man I Sing 315

“The Present-day U.S.A.Incarnation of the King of the Monkeys.” 321

“Chineseness does not come to an actor through genetic memory.” 333

“It’s the business of a playwright to bring thoughts into reality.” 339

“My love story is the talk of Chinatown.” 351

“What have you done to educate the world lately？” 364

Postscript “Five Books of Peace” 372

Appendix： What Is Common in Chinese World Literature？ — Speech on International Women’s Day at Fudan University 374

Bibliography 379

Acknowledgement 403

About the Author 407