Rey Chow

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Rey Chow
周蕾
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Born1957 (age 6566)
Education University of Hong Kong
Stanford University
School Postcolonialism, poststructuralism, cultural studies
Institutions University of California, Irvine
Brown University
Duke University
Rey Chow
Traditional Chinese 周蕾
Simplified Chinese 周蕾

In addition to publishing a number of academic articles and translations, Chow has published the following books: [18]

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  1. 1 2 "People / Literature / Rey Chow". Duke University. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  2. Bowman, The Rey Chow Reader, x.
  3. "Rey Chow; Modern Thought & Literature". Stanford University. 18 July 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  4. Khoo, Olivia (2007). The Chinese exotic: modern diasporic femininity. Hong Kong UP. p. 7. ISBN   978-962-209-879-4 . Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Bowman, Paul (September 2010). "Rey Chow and Postcolonial Social Semiotics". Social Semiotics. 20 (4): 329–341. doi:10.1080/10350330.2010.494397. S2CID   143190013.
  6. Wang, Alvin Ka Hin (March 2011). "Review: The Rey Chow Reader". The China Quarterly. 205: 189–191. doi:10.1017/S030574101100021X. S2CID   155078788.
  7. Columbia University Press. "The Rey Chow Reader". Columbia University Press. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  8. Bowman, Paul (2010). "Editorial: Rey Chow, postcoloniality and interdisciplinarity". Postcolonial Studies. 13 (3): 231–238. doi:10.1080/13688790.2010.508813. S2CID   144107257.
  9. "differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies". Duke University Press. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  10. "Editorial Board". ARCADE. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  11. Project MUSE   journal 321 Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
  12. "South Atlantic Quarterly". Duke University Press. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  13. "Masthead". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  14. 1 2 3 Bowman, The Rey Chow Reader, xii-xiii.
  15. Escobar, 191.
  16. Chow in The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 2002, 115 qtd. in Bowman "Rey Chow and Postcolonial Social Semiotics", 332.
  17. 1 2 3 Steintrager, James A (2010). "Hermeneutic heresy: Rey Chow on translation in theory and the 'fable'of culture". Postcolonial Studies. 13 (3): 289–302. doi:10.1080/13688790.2010.508833. S2CID   145239941.
  18. "Publications of Rey Chow". Duke University. Retrieved 9 October 2012.

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