Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, Shih examines the production and circulation of images across what she terms the "Sinophone Pacific," which comprises sinitic-language speaking communities such as the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America. This groundbreaking work argues that the dispersal of the so-called Chinese peoples across the world needs to be reconceptualized in terms of vibrant or vanishing communities of sinitic-language cultures rather than of ethnicity and nationality.

史書美（Shu-mei Shih）

出生於韓國，台灣讀大學，美國讀碩博士，現任美國加州大學洛杉磯分校比較文學系、亞洲語言文化系，以及亞美研究系合聘教授。

著作大多發表在美國，為華語語系研究的創建人及主要的立論者。其論文散見美國的主要學術刊物如PMLA等，部分論文有翻譯成華文，法文，西班牙文，日文，和土耳其文。

專著包括《現代的誘惑︰書寫半殖民地中國的現代主義（1917-1937）》，另合編Minor Transnationalism、Creolization of Theory、Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader。

蔡建鑫

德州大學奧斯汀校區亞洲研究學系助理教授，與高嘉謙合編《現代中國文學》華語語系研究特刊（2013）。

■譯者簡介

楊華慶

香港中文大學文化研究學部畢業。先後於媒體、獨立藝術空間、文化機構等擔任翻譯、編輯及統籌工作。撰有視覺文化評論數篇，散見於香港文學雜誌《字花》。