Lai Sai Acon-Chan

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at University of Costa Rica

El propósito de este artículo es describir el grado de parentesco que existió entre varias familias de origen chino que se asentaron en Nicoya y analizar como incidió éste en sus aportes al desarrollo socioeconómico de la ciudad y sus patrones de movilidad a lo largo del Pacífico costarricense desde finales del siglo XIX hasta mediados del siglo XX...

O objetivo deste artigo é descrever o grau de parentesco existente entre várias famílias de origem chinesa que se estabeleceram em Nicoya e analisar como isso influenciou suas contribuições para o desenvolvimento socioeconômico da cidade e seus padrões de mobilidade em todo o Pacífico da Costa Rica desde final do século XIX até meados do século XX....

O presente dossiê surge como uma iniciativa de seus coordenadores – Lai Sai Acón Chan e Ronald Soto-Quirós – interessados nas migrações internacionais, e que colaboram conjuntamente em um projeto de recuperação da memória histórica das migrações chinesas na Costa Rica (PREMEHCHI), cuja sede se situa na Universidade da Costa Rica (Costa Rica)[1]: um...

Resumen Esta investigación, la cual forma parte de un esfuerzo interinstitucional por recuperar la memoria histórica de los chinos de Costa Rica, se realizó a partir de evidencia documental, artefactos conservados en la Asocia-ción China puntarenense, fuentes primarias sobre la inmigración china y testimonios escritos y orales de descendientes de i...

div class="page" title="Page 1"> En los círculos no cinéfilos la separación entre cine taiwanés, de Hong Kong y chino no parece clara. Así, un recuento cronológico de sus indus - trias fílmicas revelará también los convulsos movimientos históricos que dieron origen a las tres áreas geográficamente diferenciadas, las cuales comparten una identidad...

This article explores the contradictions resulting from sexual discourse constructed in the nineteenth century from a hegemonic model that determines sexual rigid sex roles of Victorian English society. Some literary works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti and Charles Swinburne related with these issues are discussed.

This paper focused on the ways in which the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was both a rebel group within the artistic and literary canon of the Victorian era, but also the oppressor itself with the women associated to the Brotherhood. Works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and their associate Fort Maddox Brown and wo...

This article’s focus is how desire gives way to particular forms of empowerment in Christopher Marlowe’s play Edward II. During a historical period when “abnormal” sexual practices (as Michel Foucault would ironically call them in The History of Sexuality) such as homosexuality and female desire circulated in society but were not yet labeled as suc...

Hong Kong’s return to mainland China 99 years after the signing of the lease by its two mothers had prompted several artists and scholars to produce cultural artifacts in response to the anxieties of a people living on a territory with an expiry date. Second Wave director Wong Kar Wai was certainly one of them and shot a series of films bout Hong K...

In this article, Lazarillo de Tormes, the first rogue in Spanish letters, is examined in the light of Mikhail Bakhtin’s category of gay deceit. Indeed, Lazarillo’s roguishness is a discourse in itself, a discourse meant to revolutionize social and economic hierarchies of sixteenth-century Spain. Este artículo analiza al primer pícaro de la literat...

This paper condenses, in quite a visual way, my doctoral dissertation. Hong Kong’s telos has been and will be defined, time and again, by significant yet traumatic historical dates: January 26th 1841, October 1st 1949, December 19th 1984, June 4th 1989, and from 1997 until 2047, every July 1st. These are dates that frame my analysis of particular c...

165 years after the cession of Hong Kong and 10 years after its handover to China, it still suffers an identity crisis produced by the colonial legacy and its gradual re-absorption into the mainland. In analyzing spatial renditions in the literature of Dung, my purpose is to construct a fragmentary map of a city shaped by issues of colonization, re...

That Spain became a consolidated empire that branched out to Austria, the low countries, and even the West Indies in the so-called Golden Age is not an accident. Political, ideological, religious, and cultural factors made possible the splendor of the reigning House of the Habsburgs and are manifested in some of the most important literary creation...

Opera discourse in Farewell My Concubine and in M. Butterfly becomes the perfect excuse to analyze questions of sexual and ethnic identity in the above-mentioned texts, the first one a movie based on Lillian Lee’s novel and one of the contenders for the 1992 Best Picture Academy Award, and the second one a 1988 Tony-Award winning play by David Henr...

Este se constituye en el último de tres artículos en los que se divide el proyecto de investigación titulado El proceso de formación de la subjetividad femenina a través de su sexualidad, un proyecto del CIICLA (Centro de Investigaciones en Identidad Cultural Latinoamericana). Esta entrega en particular es un análisis de Los monólogos de la vagina...

En su primera novela experimental, The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston utiliza la narración oral para demostrar los lazos intertextuales que unen a diferentes mujeres-texto de diferentes épocas en su lucha contra el silencio patriarcal. Las historias de lo indecible son narradas a través de la misma historia de la mujer guerrera que da nombre a...

The analysis of domestic violence in the light of two literary works will serve to (1) reveal a worldwide reality whose effects usually bring about appalling consequences, (2) somehow vindicate female victims of violence, (3) reeducate the Costa Rican society and, at the same time, (4) reconstruct the process by which women acquire a healthy sexual...

The play FOB, by David Henry Hwang, explores the process by which Chinese Americans construct a bicultural identity. A pastiche of traditional Chinese folklore and a modern rereading in the light of feminist and ethnic concerns, FOB emerges as an attempt to narrow the gaps between first, second, and third generations of Chinese in the United States...

Although American publishers have classified China Men as a nonfiction work, there are dissenting views as one may find it in American bookstores and libraries as a fiction work, an autobiography or a nonfiction work. Indeed, this research shows that the syncretism of literary and extra literary features is what makes it an example of what the Asia...