Critical Zone 3: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge Book

Introduction Douglas Kerr Q. S. Tong Wang Shouren 1

Part I Locality

Locating Louise Ho: The Place of English Poetry in Hong Kong Douglas Kerr 15

Voices of Hong Kong: The Reconstruction of a Performance in a Teahouse Bell Yung 37

Invisible Neighbors: Racial Minorities and the Hong Kong Chinese Community Kwai-Cheung Lo 59

Contested Colony: Hong Kong, the 1949 Revolution, and the "Taiwan Problem" John M. Carroll 75

Babel and Vernacular in an Empire of Immigrants: Howells and the Languages of American Fiction Jonathan Arac 95

Dreaming about the Singularity of the New Middle Ages: Three Provisional Notes on the Question of Imagination R.A. Judy 113

Part II Translations

Chinese Nationalism

Modern Chinese Nationalism and the Boxer Movement Li Weichao 147

The Cultural Origin of the Boxer Movement's Obscurantism and Its Influence on the Cultural Revolution Wang Yi 155

Shanghai History Books

Editors' Note 170

The New History Books in Shanghai: It's a Change, Not a Coup d'Etat Su Zhiliang 171

Zhu Xueqin Reviews New History Books: A Cannibalistic View of History Produced Wolves Zhu Xueqin 179

China Maritime Rights

On the Development Strategy for China's Sea Power Ye Zicheng Mu Xinhai 189

On China's Sea Power Zhang Wenmu 205

On China's Foreign Policy Strategy Yu Xilai Wu Zichen 215

Contributors 235