The December issue of Chung Wai Literary Quarterly--Speed Shambles: Special Issue for the 44th National Conference on Comparative Literature--has been released.
■ Speed Shambles: Special Issue for the 44th National Conference on Comparative Literature
Guest Editor: Iping Liang
Introduction: On Virus Immunity, Gambling Messiah, and Affect Politics
Iping Liang
Diffractive Mattering: On the Multiple Temporalities of Immunological Memory
Chun-Mei Chuang
Candy Crush: Addiction, Gambling and the Neoliberal Financialized World
Peng-yi Tai
The Touch of Water: Beyond the Dream and the Affective Politics of Hong Kong after the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement
Sam Lok-Man Mak
■ Biology and (Post)Humanities: Life, Medicine, and Environmental Imagination
Guest Editors: Pin-chia Feng and Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai
Special Issue Translated Articles
Sympoiesis: Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble
Donna Haraway (Trans. Hui-Wen Cheng)
The Living and Its Milieu
Georges Canguilhem (Trans. Shu-Chuan Lin; Trans. Ed. Julian Chih-wei Yang)
■ General Topics
(In)Vulnerable Women in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: Rape and the Law in Neoliberal South Africa
Chia-Chen Kuo
■ Chung Wai Book Review
The Limitations and Capacities of Literary Forms: A Review of Dora Zhang’s Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel
Yi-jo Hsieh