Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Iron Curtain of Language: Place and Placement
The Iron Curtain of Language
Place and Placement
The Glass Ceiling of Gender and Genre
Chapter 2 The Postmodern Chaotic Arabesque and the Oriental Wife's Tale: A Replacement and Re-Orientation
The Exotic Is Familiar: Arabian Nights and American Chimera
The East Is in the West: From Diotima to Flower Orchid
The Economics of Exploitation in Literary Exchanges
The Woman Warrior as a Postmodern Chaotic Arabesque
Chapter 3 Translating a Heroic Tradition of Chinese Women:The Woman Warrior
The Missionary Tradition and the Heroic Tradition
The River-Merchant's Wife and the Master Narrative of American Orientalism
The Myth of No Name Woman and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Transnational Influence and Revolutionary Theater
Golden Mountain Women and the Might of a Mother Tongue
The Legacy of "the Eastern Palace" in the Disneyland of Western Movies
Daughters of Immortal Fame on the Borderland of Barbarian Battlefields
The Redemption of a Woman Writer in Chinese History, Poetry,and Play
Chapter 4 Deconstructing the Master Narrative of the Yellow Peril: China Men
Literary Fathers Chinese and American: "On Discovery" of Flowers in the Mirror
The Coolie Fiction and the Yellow Peril: Media and Missionary Power
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: From the Sandalwood to the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Literacy, Laws, and the Legacy of Language: "The Father from China" and "The Wild Man of the Green Swamp"
Wars and Wisdom of Survivors: "The American Father" and "The Brother in Vietnam"
Translation and the Mortality of the Teacher's Tongue: "The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun"
Chapter 5 Re-Orienting American Orientalism through the Black Curtain in a Puppet Show:Tripmaster Monkey
"Hippies, Indians, Chinese, Quakers, Women Martin Luther King Jr. and Vegetarians"
"She was no China Man the way he was China Man"
Wittman Ah Sing/Whitman I Sing/Wit Man Ah Sing/Noman Asing/ No Man I Sing
"The Present-day U. S.A. Incarnation of the King of the Monkeys.
"Chineseness does not come to an actor through genetic memory. "
"It's the business of a playwright to bring thoughts into reality. "
"My love story is the talk of Chinatown. "
"What have you done to educate the world lately?"
Postscript: "Five Books of Peace"
Appendix: What Is Common in Chinese World Literature?—— Speech on International Women's Day at Fudan University
Bibliography
Acknowledgement
About the Author

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Iron Curtain of Language: Place and Placement
The Iron Curtain of Language
Place and Placement
The Glass Ceiling of Gender and Genre
Chapter 2 The Postmodern Chaotic Arabesque and the Oriental Wife's Tale: A Replacement and Re-Orientation
The Exotic Is Familiar: Arabian Nights and American Chimera
The East Is in the West: From Diotima to Flower Orchid
The Economics of Exploitation in Literary Exchanges
The Woman Warrior as a Postmodern Chaotic Arabesque
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