Exploring Sinophone Liminality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction

Chao explores Sinophone literature as a complex field that navigates the intersections of Sinitic languages, global literary systems, and China-centered perspectives. He posits that Sinophone literature, through ghost narratives, provides a platform to critically examine modernity, transgress boundaries and challenge epistemologies.

Di-kai Chao is a postdoctoral researcher at East China Normal University, China. His research focuses on ghost narratives in contemporary Sinophone fiction and the discourse on the "lyrical tradition" in Chinese literature.

Introduction: Ghostly Sinophone Articulation within Multiple Power Networks 1. Worlding Taiwaneseness: Sinophone Taiwan Ghost Narratives and Their Post-colonial Agenda 2. Returning to Disappearance: Ghost Narratives in Sinophone Hong Kong 3. Negotiation in Post-Chineseness: On Ghost Narratives in Sinophone Malaysian Literature 4. Fabulating China's Stories: Dystopian Ghost Narratives and Peach Blossom Spring in Fiction from the Chinese Mainland Conclusion