The December issue of Chung Wai Literary Quarterly–Speed Shambles: Special Issue for the 44th National Conference on Comparative Literature–has been released.

2023-12-28

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