{"product_id":"9781439907603","title":"Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's \u003ci\u003eTiananmen Fictions Outside the Square\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers-Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Annie Wang, and Ma Jian-who have written and published about the massacre from abroad. Their outsider\/distanced perspectives inform their work, and reveal how diaspora writers continually reimagine Tiananmen's relevance to the post-1989 world at large.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Compelling us to think about how Chinese culture, identity, and politics are being defined in the diaspora, \u003ci\u003eTiananmen Fictions Outside the Square\u003c\/i\u003e candidly addresses issues of political exile, historical trauma, global capital, and state biopower.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142781616368,"sku":"9781439907603","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439907603_p0.jpg?v=1763756544","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439907603","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}