Volume 14, Number 1, 2022
Themed Issue on
Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Literary and Cultural Studies
Eds: Dr Jeremy de Chavez & Dr Zhang Yue
University of Macau, China

Editorial Introduction: East Asia 
Experiencing and Writing East Asian (Post)modernity
Yue Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.00. First published: February 05, 2022.
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The Poetics of Fei Ming: How the Classical Merged with the Modernist
Candy Fan Wang 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.02. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Precarity and Performativity in Post-Fordist Japanese Workplace: A Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman
Jaseel P & Rashmi Gaur 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.03. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Foreignized Translation of Onomatopoeia in The Last Lover
Minhui Xu & Tingting Chen 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.04. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Translingual, Transcultural, and Transboundary Sceneries: Aesthetic Ideas and Discursive Practice in Yu Dafu’s Landscape Writing
Yidan Wang 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.05. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Introduction to Antiquarian Chinese Book Collections in Contemporary Macao
 Chon Chit TANG 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.06. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Editorial Introduction: Southeast Asia 
Rethinking, Narrating, Consuming Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia
 Jeremy De Chavez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.01. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Bagay: Articulating a New Materialism from the Philippine Tropics
Christian Jil R. Benitez 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.07. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Traversing Paths/Pasts: Places of Filipino Philosophy
 Hazel T. Biana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.08. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Which tongue? The Imported Colonial Standard or Motherland Vernacular? Exploring “Death” as the Birth of Postcolonial Malaysia in Muthammal Palanisamy’s Funeral Chant
Kavitha Ganesan 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.09. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Revisiting theatre of the minoritarian in neoliberalism: The Embodied Memories in Denise Uyehara’s and Dan Kwong’s Auto-performances
 Io Chun KONG 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.10. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Autopoetics, Market Competence, and the Transnational Author
Maria Gabriela P. Martin 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.11. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Women Trespassing Borders: Imaginaries of Cosmopolitanism from Below in Mia Alvar’s In the Country
 Carlos M. Piocos III 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.12. First published: February 05, 2022.
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The Teleserye Story: Three Periods of the Evolution of the Filipino TV Soap Opera
 Louie Jon A. Sanchez 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.13. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Skinned Performance: Female Body Horror in Joko Anwar’s Impetigore
Anton Sutandio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.14. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Apostol’s Creed: Unveiling the Political Fictions of Colonialism and Nation in the Diasporic Novel
Marikit Tara Alto Uychoco 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.15. First published: February 05, 2022.
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From Private Eye to Public “I”: The Chinese Filipinos in Charlson Ong’s Hard-Boiled Fiction
Joseph Ching Velasco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.16. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Pop Song Translations by Rolando Tinio as Script and Subversion of the Marcos Regime
Niccolo Rocamora Vitug 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.17. First published: February 05, 2022.
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English in the Philippines from the Perspective of Linguistic Imperialism
Jie Zeng & Tian Yang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.18. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration by Carlos M. Piocos III
Jose Kervin Cesar B. Calabias 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.19. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Translating China as Cross-Identity Performance by James St. Andre
 Cao Qilin 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.20. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives edited by Olga Castro and Emek Ergun
John Chi Chon FONG 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.21. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Translingual Words: An East Asian Lexical Encounter with English by Jieun Kiaer
 Yi Xuan Jia 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.22. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Chinese American Literature without Borders: Gender, Genre, and Form by King-Kok Cheung
 Windy Xiao Xue 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.23. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age by David M. Berry and Anders Fagerjord
 Xi Li & Jie Zeng 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.24. First published: February 05, 2022.
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Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic: from the Wanderer to Nomadic Subject by Chloe Germaine Buckley
Zhao Yifan 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n1.25. First published: February 05, 2022.
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