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Associate Prof of English, UC Irvine. ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 (Columbia UP, 2024), TECHNO-ORIENTALISM 2.0 (Rutgers UP, 2025). Mellon New Directions Fellow. Hyphen magazine co-founder. 🇹🇼 American. https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/chrisfan
New release: Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2 -Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media -Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan -With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social -OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
Amazing!!!
This dataset rules. @chrisfan.bsky.social 👀
"Representing the canon that scholars of Asian American literature have built, it is the most expansive dataset to date on Asian American literature."
Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...
This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.
👇 @myetcetera.bsky.social @chinaheritage.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social
“Hong Kong has become an apt prism through which to probe the skin tissue between state violence and victimization, and the widening wounds to personal freedom.”
Hong Kong has become an apt prism through which to probe the skin tissue between state violence and victimization, and the widening wounds to personal freedom.
Thanks to @chrisfan.bsky.social for this piece on Taipei at Daybreak, as well as Taiwan Travelogue, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. I really appreciated the engagement with the different textual histories that I drew on
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
Thanks again for your support, Jeff!!
Big and engaging essay by @chrisfan.bsky.social just out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on two novels by Taiwanese writers of the Sunflower Movement generation (one of which just won a prize, not for the first time) lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... cc @newbloommag.net @alecash.net
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
“Any attempt at expressing Taiwanese identity requires inventiveness.” @chrisfan.bsky.social reviews Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/movement-injuries/
My review of two new novels about Taiwan: @brianhioe.bsky.social’s Taipei at Daybreak (first novel in English about the Sunflower Movement) & Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (whose English translation by @linkinglionking.bsky.social won the '24 National Book Award & the Baifang Schell Prize).
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
Fascism bad. New books good. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...
