We hope this Yearbook will prove an attractive forum for those interested in topics with a multicultural focus and a special concern for cultural and theoretical issues that arise in relation to East Asia. We wish to range beyond the conventionalboundaries of comparative literary criticism and engage with questions that have broadly anthropological address. We welcome contributions within such wide parameters.
This second volume presents new attempts in "deconstructing" cultural identities in terms of intellectual, philosophical, as well as such issues as gender and sexuality, from various perspectives and in different forms of discourse, which provide, to varying degrees, multiculturally interpretive re-readings of Chinese as well as Anglo-American texts. The discourses not only examine the problematics of cultural identity reconstruction and national character understanding but also explore the possibility to establish a dialogical paradigm for different cultures.
