{"product_id":"9783662739464","title":"Re-Habilitating Chinatown Recovering Lived Space in Chinese American Literature and Film through Henri Lefebvre","description":"\u003ch1\u003eRe-Habilitating Chinatown\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eRecovering Lived Space in Chinese American Literature and Film through Henri Lefebvre\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSelma Siew Li Bidlingmaier\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Anthropology \/ Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eThis book examines the politics of representation in Chinese American literature through cultural history and urban theory. Its central problem: how can Chinese American authors represent their realities when the signs they use have been predetermined by centuries of racist discourse? Popular imaginaries of 'Chinese-ness'—from foodways to ‘China-towns’—are sustained by a system of signs that renders ‘things-Chinese’ exotic, other, and inscrutable, with concrete socio-political consequences for the community's rights and representation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eEarly Chinese American writing resisted these discourses through life writing and de-exoticization. Later interventions—such as Chin's hypermasculinized \"Chinatown cowboy\"—attempted subversion but remained trapped within the same system of signs. The author departs from these approaches by turning to the lived and the everyday. Drawing on Lefebvre's Production of Space, she analyzes Chinatown as a socially produced lived space, reading Jade Snow Wong's \"Fifth Chinese Daughter\", Shawn Wong's \"Homebase\" and Fae Myenne Ng's \"Bone\", and Wayne Wang's \"Chan is Missing\" as sediments of everyday life that sublate the dominated, mystified spaces of discursive Chinatown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDr. Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier is a Guest Professor at the Department of American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. Her research interests include intersections between urban history, literature, and cultural theory, (post)colonial ecocriticsm, inter-Asian mobilities and diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e09 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Berlin Heidelberg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eJ.B. Metzler\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783662739464\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591271157900,"sku":"9783662739464","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783662739464.jpg?v=1781090183","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783662739464","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}