Il dibattito accademico cinese riguardo alla produzione letteraria di autori cinesi e sinodiscendenti fuori dai confini nazionali

This review presents some key issues in mainland Chinese research on literary works of emigrants and authors of Chinese descent examining a series of recently published representative papers. After a brief retrospection of the development of relative studies in the country, the author discusses the questions of denomination, methodology, and canon by juxtaposing opinions of various scholars. In the analysis particular attention is given to "Chineseness", a concept sometimes mythicized by some essentialist discourses in the Chinese academia.