Outputs (2)

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema (2022)
Thesis
Yeung, S. Y. Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This project offers the framework of “semiotics of allegory” as an alternative to Fredric Jameson’s national allegory for studying non-Western cultural products by emphasising their plural meanings of signs and the importance of situating their readi... Read More about Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema.

Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976 (2018)
Thesis
Yang, Y. Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This PhD thesis examines woodblock book publishing during the radical years of Mao’s life time, when thread-bound books were criticised as representing the symbol of the old literati culture by the CCP government. This very political authority parado... Read More about Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976.