Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations: Texts and Histories

318 Pages·2020·4.708 MB·English

by  Katrine Wong

Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations
East and West

culture, diplomacy and interactions
Edited by
Chuxiong George Wei (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)
volume 8
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Eastern and Western

Synergies and Imaginations
Texts and Histories
Edited by
Katrine K. Wong
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Contents

Acknowledgement vii
List of Figures viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Katrine K. Wong
1 “A Being … from a Different World”: Yung Wing and the Making of a
Global Subjectivity 16
Patricia P. Chu
2 Maritime Links, Imperialism, and Diaspora in the Ibis Trilogy 56
Shilpa Daithota Bhat
3 Utopia and History: Os Lusíadas (Camões) and Uma viagem à Índia
(G. M. Tavares) 79
Helena Carvalhão Buescu
4 “Orientalism from Within” in Goa: Local Textual Production in
Light of the Legal and Administrative Framework of the Overseas
Populations 97
Everton V. Machado
5 Present Absences: the East in the Story of a Port Town on the Western
Coast of the Black Sea 123
Onoriu Colăcel
6 Pragmatism and Politics Intertwined: the West, the East, the Suez Crisis,
and Inter/ national Hegemony in James Graham’s Eden’s Empire 140
Önder Çakırtaş
7 A Dog of Flanders: Of Triumphant Heroes and Heroic Losers 154
Etienne Boumans
8 Yeats, Noh Theatre, and the Traditions of Asia 186
Matthew Gibson
vi Contents
9 David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face in Postracial Times 216
Keith Appler
10 Imagining Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London in Macao 229
Katrine K. Wong
Appendix: The Three Ladies of Macao (2016) 259
Katrine K. Wong
Index 299
Acknowledgement

First and foremost, my gratitude goes to all contributors, to all of the partic-
ipants of the international seminar on “Eastern and Western Synergies and
Imaginations” held at the University of Macau (UM) in November 2015, and to
my colleague Matthew Gibson, with whom I worked in the cross- disciplinary
project “Theatre of Macao” (2015–2 017), funded by the then Research and
Development Administration Office of UM. I am also grateful to Qin Higley
and Lauren Bissonette for their enthusiasm for the topic from its inception, to
Elizabeth You for her unfailing support throughout the review and production
stages, as well as to series editor George Wei for giving the current collection of
essays an ideal home.
I would like to express my deep affection to the petite, charming city of Ma-
cao, which has become my second home, and where my work on cross- cultural
studies and Macao studies began. Special thanks are due to outgoing and cur-
rent colleagues at UM, in particular Lionel Ni, for their formative advice and
encouragement. To my student writers and performers of The Three Ladies of
Macao, published as an appendix in this very volume: thank you for bringing
your diverse, multi- cultural energies to all our writing and rehearsal sessions;
I could not have done it without you.
To Paul Flower – my partner and best friend, thank you for your love, cri-
tique, and support. Your artwork has once again bookended my east- west ven-
ture, literally and metaphorically.
In- flight Rome to London
July 2019
Figures

7.1 Ouida (Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery) 156
7.2 Peter- Paul Rubens in front of Antwerp’s Cathedral of Our Lady (© Antwerpen
Toerisme & Congres/ Sigrid Spinnox) 158
7.3 Jackie Coogan introducing some dog (Photo by General Photographic Agency/
Getty Images) 163
7.4 A scene from the 1959 adaptation (© ALAMY) 166
7.5 Jon Voight, Jesse James, and a real Flemish bouvier in the 1999 adaptation
(© ALAMY) 168
7.6 Nitobe’s book on Bushido, first edition (1900) (Hearn 92.40.10, Houghton
Library, Harvard University) 170
7.7 The iconic protagonists of the 1975 anime series (Courtesy of Studio 100) 174
7.8 A plaque in front of Antwerp Cathedral (© Cartoon Productions) 180
7.9 Hoboken: A small boy, a big dog? (Courtesy of Inge Geysen) 181
7.10 Nello and Patrasche in front of Antwerp’s Cathedral of Our Lady (© Jonathan
Ramael) 182
8.1 The Wheel of the Principles (including the discarnate states Aries to Virgo),
rightangled over a “half- speed” Wheel of the Faculties. The points of a four-
thousand- year Religious Era (two Solar months) are included 202
8.2 Hanging scroll. Three men studying the yin- yang symbol, with three children
and a deer, with inscription. Ink and colours on silk (© Trustees of the British
Museum) 208
10.1 A note to myself made in June 2015 231
10.2 Scene 4. Love (left) and Akumasan (© Kaman Chang) 250
10.3 Scene 5a. Simplicity (right) and a passer- by (© Kaman Chang) 250
Notes on Contributors

Keith Appler
teaches at the Department of English, University of Macau. He writes on
American drama and theater and their cultural and institutional locations.
He is particularly interested in the relationship between multiculturalism and
a continuing avant- garde. His work has appeared in journals such as Modern
Drama, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and American Drama.
Shilpa Daithota Bhat
is Assistant Professor at Ahmedabad University, India. She has a PhD from
Gujarat University. Her areas of interest are South Asian Literature, Diaspora
and Postcolonial theories, Canadian Studies and Children’s Literature. She was
Visiting Professor, McGill University, Montreal (2017); Visiting Professor, York
University, Canada (2015). She visited Trinity College, University of Toronto
(Commonwealth Fellowship, 2011– 12), University of Western Ontario (2011),
Korea University (pancs Grant, 2011) for research and conferences. She has
authored Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives: Animalizing the ‘Native’,
1830– 1930 (Rowman and Littlefield, US, 2017); edited Diaspora and Homing in
South Asian Women’s Writing:Beyond Trishanku (Edited Anthology, Rowman
and Littlefield, US, 2018).
Etienne Boumans
MA, MSc, llm, is an independent scholar, researching minority and disability
rights, popular culture, and the arts. Boumans has published on European pol-
icies, human rights, film history, and cultural heritage issues. He is co-a uthor of
The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and
Chair of Flemish Visual Arts evaluation committee (2019–2 023). An expert on
Flemish cultural heritage, Boumans serves on EU Horizon2020 evaluation
committees and is board member and Project Manager of Friends of Bruges’
Museums. He has also worked as Administrator of European Parliament’s Hu-
man Rights Unit and Head of European Parliament’s committee secretariat on
Culture and Education.
Helena Carvalhão Buescu
Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Lisboa, Helena B uescu
collaborates as Visiting Professor with universities in Europe, USA, Brazil and
Macao, China. She works on comparative literature and world literature, and
has published in Portuguese and international periodicals and books. She is
x Notes on Contributors
founder- director of the Centre of Comparative Studies, University of Lisboa,
and has served on several international boards: icla, hermes, Synapsis,
inch, Inst. World Literature. She serves in European Evaluation Committees,
and is a member of Academia Europaea, St. John’s College of University of
Cambridge, and Academia das Ciências de Lisboa.
Önder Çakırtaş
has recently been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Drama, Theatre and
Performance Studies, University of Roehampton. Having received his PhD
from Süleyman Demirel University in 2015, Çakırtaş specializes in modern/
contemporary British drama, more specifically political and psychological dra-
ma- literature. He is the author of Politics and Drama (1st edition: Apostolos,
2016; 2nd edition: Wipf & Stock, 2019) and editor of Ideological Messaging and
the Role of Political Literature (igi Global, 2017). Teaching English Literature
in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bingol University,
Çakırtaş has also co- edited The Politics of Traumatic Literature: Narrating Hu-
man Psyche and Memory (Cambridge Scholars, 2018) and Literature and Psy-
chology: Writing, Trauma and the Self (Cambridge Scholars, 2019). His current
research project is on Muslim Representation in 21st Century British Theatre,
which is to be finalized as a book- length study in 2020.
Patricia P. Chu
is Professor of English at George Washington University (Washington, DC).
A graduate of Yale and Cornell, she recently served as Global Humanities
Exchange Scholar to the University of Macau. She has authored Assimilating
Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (Duke University
Press) and Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in
Asian American Narratives of Return (Temple University Press, 2019). Her es-
says appear in Arizona Quarterly, Diaspora, The Routledge Companion to Asian
American and Pacific Islander Literature, The Cambridge History of Asian Amer-
ican Literature, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature.
Onoriu Colăcel
is Senior Lecturer in English at Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Roma-
nia. He works on postcolonial studies, cultural memory and patterns of self-
identification in literature, media and popular culture. His authored books
include Postcolonial Readings of Romanian Identity Narratives (2015) and The
Romanian Cinema of Nationalism. Historical Films as Propaganda and Specta-
cle (2018).