Reportage in the Chinese Speaking World Published

University of Michigan Press has published Reportage in the Chinese Speaking World, edited by Charles Laughlin (DEALLC) and Li Guo of Utah State University. This volume updates Laughlin's previous monograph, Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience, and showcases scholarship about documentary film, nonfiction writing, photography, and other important media being produced in the global Chinese diaspora. 

It is available on Open Access, and the Table of Contents is given below.

Introduction: “From Reportage to Non-Fiction Art: New Perspectives from the Chinese-Speaking World” Li Guo and Charles A. Laughlin

I. Contesting Chinese Reportage

1. “The Poetics and Praxis of Zhang Mengqi’s Documentary Films” Thomas Moran
2. “Forest Chongqing: A Photographic Reportage by Yan Wang Preston” Federica Mirra
3. “Reincarnations of Labor Reportage: Nonfiction by Chinese Migrant Worker Authors” Federico Picerni

II. Envisioning Taiwanese Reportage

4. “Gu Mengren and Reportage in 1970s Taiwan” Charles A. Laughlin
5. “Stoic Heroism: The Making of Photojournalist as a Professional Identity in Ren Jian Magazine’s International Section” Po-hsi Chen,
6. “Reportage, Photography, and the Ekphrastic Encounter: On Moon Children by Liao Chia-chan and Yan Hsin-chu” Li Guo

III. Race, Indigeneity, and Border-Crossings 

7. “Tales of Chinese Coolies in Late Qing Labor Reportage” Ping Zhu
8. “Transforming the ‘Barbarian’ Margins into Multiethnic National Centers: Photographic Reportage and Ethnic Imagination in Republican-era China” Yanshuo Zhang
9. “Chinese-in-Japan Documentary and Media Reportage in the New Millennium: Toward a Disjunctive History of Transnational Affectivity” Ran Ma

Epilogue: “The Rebirth of Reportage in the New Age” Charles A. Laughlin and Li Guo