The book is about the circulation of ideas about China but it is also a book about writers, rivalries, and the acquisition of authority. On the margins-in Chinatowns, on college campuses, in the failed avant-gardism of Tsiang-a different conversation about the possibilities of a transpacific future was taking place. At this time the United States "rediscovered" China, and the book traces its causes and cues in a variety of sites: the comfortable, middlebrow literature of Pearl Buck, Alice Tisdale Hobart and Lin Yutang the journalism of Carl Crow and Henry Luce exuberant reports from oil executives proclaiming a new era in global trade. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when China was recast as a rich, unexplored mystery to the American public. The title is taken from a lost manuscript by H.T.
Book excerpt: "A Floating Chinaman is, in the broadest sense, a book about who gets to speak for China. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. (NetIndian News Network).Book Synopsis A Floating Chinaman by : Hua Hsuĭownload or read book A Floating Chinaman written by Hua Hsu and published by Harvard University Press. The Shortlist was announced in October 2011 at the DSC South Asian Literature Festival in UK. The DSC Prize was judged by a jury chaired by Ira Pande along with Alastair Niven, Fakrul Alam, Faiza S Khan and Marie Brenner. Ananthamurthy: Bharathipura (Oxford University Press, India, translated by Susheela Punitha), Chandrakanta: A Street in Srinagar (Zubaan Books, India, translated by Manisha Chaudhry), Usha K.R: Monkey-man (Penguin/Penguin India), Tabish Khair: The Thing About Thugs (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins-India), and Kavery Nambisan: The Story that Must Not Be Told (Viking/Penguin India).
Six authors had been Shortlisted for the DSC Prize 2012 from which the winner was announced yesterday. The DSC Prize along with a trophy was awarded to Shehan Karunatilaka by Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Queen Mother of Bhutan. The US $50,000 DSC Prize 2012 was awarded to Karunatilaka at a ceremony attended by renowned authors, media persons and others at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, one of the biggest literary festivals in the region. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 was awarded yesterday to Singapore-based Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka for his book Chinaman (Random House, India), a novel that won him Sri Lanka’s highest literary prize, the Gratiaen Award in 2008. Shehan awarded prestigious South Asian literary prize for Chinaman
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