Chinese Frustrations: My Rightist Mobility, My Leftist Hypocrisy
November 20, 2015
By Flair Donglai Shi, World Literatures in English (MSt) at University of Oxford. (Caution: the words “rightist” and “leftist” are used in the vaguest/broadest sense possible in this article, which is full of generalising languages and assuming discourses that the reader is welcome to deconstruct) My British dustbin is my best friend. It always sits …
UNNC and (Post-)Coloniality: Western Education and China
June 19, 2015
By Flair Shi, Currently Studying Comparative Literature (MA) at University College London, Graduate of the School of English University of Nottingham Ningbo, BA in English Language and Literature. As my enthusiasm for postcolonialism, and the popularity of the discipline, seem to be ever increasing and intensifying since the first day my dear professor in the …
Chinese Gay and the West: Far From a Post-colonial Queer
March 23, 2015
By Flair Shi, Currently Studying Comparative Literature (MA) at University College London, Graduate of the School of English University of Nottingham Ningbo, BA in English Language and Literature. Post-colonialism as a school of political/literary theory rose in the 1980s, with Edward Said’s Orientalism, Spivak’s concern for the voicelessness of the subaltern and Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial …
Post-colonialism Backfires: Be Proud of My Chinese Name Please?
February 6, 2015
By Flair Shi, Currently Studying Comparative Literature (MA) at University College London, Graduate of the School of English University of Nottingham Ningbo, BA in English Language and Literature. As Walter Benjamin poignantly points out in his essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man”, the philosophy of language surely starts from the …