Reading List
A Personal History of Home
Arshi, Mona, Somebody Loves You. Sheffield: And Other Stories, 2021.
Chang, Jung, Wild Swans. London and New York: Harper Collins, 2016.
Coibin, Colm, Brooklyn. London and New York: Penguin Books 2009.
Evaristo, Bernadine, Girl, Woman, Other. London and New York: Penguin Books 2019.
Fu, Melissa, Peach Blossom Spring. London: Hachette, 2022.
Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
Morrison, Toni, Beloved. London: Vintage Books, 1997.
Ozeki, Ruth, Tales for the Time Being. London: Canongate 2013.
Pamuk, Orhan, The Museum of Innocence. London: Faber & Faber, 2008.
Powles, Nina Mingya, Small Bodies of Water. London: Canongate, 2021.
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club. London: Vintage Books, 1991.
Thien, Madeleine, Do Not Say We Have Nothing. London: Granta Books, 2017.
Anaxagorou, Anthony, After the Formalities. London: Penned in the margins: 2018.
Ante, Romalyn, Antiemetics for Homesickness. Chatto & Windus, 2021.
Beck, Zeina Hashem, Louder than Hearts. New Hampshire: Bauhan, 2017.
Chan, Mary Jean, Flèche. London and New York: Faber and Faber, 2019.
Chin, Marilyn, Hard Love Province. London and New York: W W Norton, 2014.
Clifton, Lucille, How to Carry Water: Selected Poems. New York: BOA Editions, 2021,
Fan, Kit, As Slow As Possible. Arc Publications. 2018.
Kwek, Theophilus, Moving House. Manchester: Carcanet, 2020.
Howe, Sarah, Loop of Jade. London and New York: Chatto & Wiundus, 2015.
Lee, Li-young, From Blossoms. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2007.
Lee, Laura Jane, flinch and air. London: Outspoken Press, 2021.
Lowe, Hannah, Chick (2013) and Chan (2016). Tarset: Bloodaxe Books.
Miller, Cynthia, Honorifics. Rugby, Nine Arches Press, 2021.
Powles, Nina Mingya, 木蘭 Magnolia. Rugby, Nine Arches Press, 2021.
Saphra, Jacqueline, 100 Lockdown Sonnets. Rugby, Nine Arches Press, 2021.
Sluman, Daniel, A Single Window. Rugby, Nine Arches Press, 2021.
Sean, Wai Keung, Sikfan Glaschu. Birmingham: Verve Poetry Press, 2021.
Vuong, Ocean, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. London and New York: Cape, 2017.
Westcott, Sarah, Bloom. Liverpool: Pavilion Poetry, 2021.
Berger, John, Ways of Seeing. London and New York: Penguin Books, 2008.
Bryson, Bill, At Home: A Short History of Private Life. Double Day, 2010.
Cline, Sally and Carole Angier, The Arvon Book of Life Writing. York: Methuen Drama, 2010.
Cowan, Andrew, The Art of Writing Fiction. Abingdon, Oxford: Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Dastidar, Rishi, The Craft. Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2019.
Fox, Michael Allen, Home: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Haslam, Sara and Derek Neale, Life Writing. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
Humphreys, Ian, Why I Write Poetry. Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2021.
Mokhari, Tara, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Oliver, Mary, A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver. Boston MA: HMH Books, 1994.
Skinner, Richard, Writing a Novel: Bring Your Ideas To Life. London: Faber & Faber, 2018.
Sontag, Susan, On Photography. London, Penguin Books 1977.
Balcom, John. “To the Heart of Exile: The Poetic Odyssey of Luo Fu.” In Christopher Lupke ed., New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: 65-84.
Barmé, Geremie R. In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture. NY: Columbia UP, 1999.
Bernards, Brian. Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.
Chiu, Kuei-fen. “Empire of the Chinese Sign: The Question of Chinese Diasporic Imagination in Transnational Literary Production.” Journal of Asian Studies 67, 2 (May 2008): 593-620.
Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.
Coderre, Laurence. Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.
Edmond, Jacob and Hilary Chung. “Yang Lian, Auckland and the Poetics of Exile.” In Yang Lian, Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006, 1-23.
Esherick, Joseph. Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History. Oakland, CA.: University of California Press, 2011.
Hee, Wai-Siam. Remapping the Sinophone The Cultural Production of Chinese-Language Cinema in Singapore and Malaya before and during the Cold War. HK: Hong Kong University Press, 2019.
Hee, Wai-Siam. “The Lure of Diaspora: Diaspora Discourse, Accented Style, and Sinophone Malaysian Culture.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 33, 2 (Fall 2021): 205-257.
Janssen, Ronald R. “What History Cannot Write: Bei Dao and Recent Chinese Poetry.” Critical Asian Studies 34, 2 (2002): 259-277.
Khoo, Olivia. The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity. HK: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.
Ko, Dorothy. The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China. Washington: University of Washington Press, 2017.
Lee, Karen An-hwei. Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora: Literary Transnationalism and Translingual Migrations. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2013.
Li, Jie. Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Li, Jie. Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.
Møller-Olsen, Astrid. Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction. Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2021.
Qian, Nanxiu, Richard J. Smith, and Bowei Zhang, eds. Rethinking the Sinopshere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation. Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2020.
Shih, Shu-mei. Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Shih, Shu-mei, Chien-hsin Tsai and Brian Bernards, eds., Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Tang, Fang. Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women’s Literature: Imagining Home. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
Teng, Emma J. Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China and Hong Kong, 1842-1943. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
Tsu, Jing. Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
