Maria Noëlle Ng

January 29, 2015


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Writing to Defy Death
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 206 (Autumn 2010): 136-138.
  • The Sleeping Buddha by Hamida Ghafour
  • The Evergreen Country by Thuong Vuong-Riddick
  • Not Yet by Wayson Choy
To Wear or Not to Wear a Wedding Dress
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 186-188.
  • My Wedding Dress by Susan Whelehan (Editor) and Anne Laurel Carter (Editor)
Doctors in Distress
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Gabrielle Roy contemporaine/The Contemporary Gabrielle Roy. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 192 (Spring 2007): 132-133.
  • Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
Short Fiction
Claiming Hongkongness
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 188 (Spring 2006): 136-137.
  • Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy by Eliza W.Y. Lee
Short Fiction
Chic Canadians
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Writers Talking. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 183 (Winter 2004): 158-159.
  • Couture and Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s by Alexandra Palmer
Asian Culture Globalization Postcolonialism
Moving the Margins
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 122-123.
  • Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging by Ralph A. Litzinger
  • Postmodernism and China by Arif Dirlik (Editor) and Xudong Zhang (Editor)
Culture Economics
Of Cities, Wars, and Food
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 182-184.
  • Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond by Yeh Wen-hsin
  • Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China by J. Y. Wong
  • The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue
History Novel War
Ornamentalism
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 108-109.
  • Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine
  • Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change by Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles
Asian Culture Cultural Studies International Conflict War
Tracking the Chinese
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Travel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 174 (Autumn 2002): 141-145.
  • Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s by Xiao-huang Yin
  • Jan Wong's China by Jan Wong
  • In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture by Geremie R. Barmé
  • The Chinese Overseas by Wang Gungwu
  • The Chinese in Vancouver 1945-80 by Ng Wing Chung
British Colonialism Cultural Studies
Times Past Chinese Style
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 173 (Summer 2002): 191-193.
  • No Dogs and Not Many Chinese by Frances Wood
  • Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China 1930-1945 by Leo Ou-fan Lee
  • The Yellow Pear by Gu Xiong
Asian American Asian Canadian Asian Culture British Columbia Immigrant Media & Communications
The 'Yellow Peril' Today
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 169 (Summer 2001): 163-166.
  • Space of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
  • The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas by Lynn Pan
  • China Chic: East Meets West by Valerie Steele and John S. Major
Asian Culture Twentieth Century
Refining the Isms
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 164 (Spring 2000): 140-142.
  • Cultural Readings of Imprerialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History by Keith Ansell Pearson (Editor), Benita Parry (Editor) and Judith Squires (Editor)
  • Ethics After Idealism: Theory Culture Ethnicity Reading by Rey Chow
Asian Culture Diaspora Essays Ethnic History Film Gender
Chinese Speak
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Asian Canadian Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 163 (Winter 1999): 200-204.
  • A Leaf in the Bitter Wind by Ye Ting-xing
  • Hong Kong Poems by Andrew Parkin and Laurence Wong
  • Ingratitude by Ying Chen and Carol Volk (Translator)
  • China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry by Judy Fong Bates
Cultural Studies Literary Theory Postcolonialism
The Dragon and the Emporium
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Asian Canadian Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 163 (Winter 1999): 197-200.
  • Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux
  • Transporting the Emporium: Hong Kong Art & Writing Through the Ends of Time by Scott McFarlane (Editor)
  • Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers by Esther Mikyung Ghymn
Asian Canadian Autobiography Native Studies Novel Poetry
Stylish Violence
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 164-165.
  • Looks Perfect by Kim Moritsugu
  • Jade Slash Laverna by Anne Montagnes
Asian Canadian Cultural Studies Ethnic History Multiculturalism
Power Works
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 157 (Summer 1998): 151-153.
  • Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World by Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon
  • Engendering China: Women, Culture and the State by Christina K. Gilmartin (Editor), Gail Hershatter (Editor), Lisa Rofel (Editor) and Tyrene White (Editor)
Crime & Detective Novel
Repulsion and Desire
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 185-187.
  • Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory,Culture and Race by Robert J. C. Young
  • Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton. A Literary Biography by Annette White-Parks
  • Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings by Sui Sin Far, Amy Ling (Editor) and Annette White-Parks (Editor)
Asian Culture Cultural Studies Gender Postmodernism Women's Studies
A Passion for Design
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 164-165.
  • Contemporary Designers by Colin Naylor (Editor)
  • The Illustrated Encylopedia of Victoriana by Nancy Ruhling and John Crosby Freeman
  • The Culture of Fashion: a New History of Fashionable Dress by Christopher Breward
Asian Canadian Biography Colonialism Short Fiction
Inquisitive Travellers
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Women, City, Wilderness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 146 (Autumn 1995): 138-140.
  • Learning from Mount Hua. A Chinese Physician's Illustrated Travel Record and Painting Theory by Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb
  • A Tiger on Dragon Mountain by Helen Fraser MacRae
Architecture Art Cultural Studies Nineteenth Century
Being Different
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in DeMille’s Utopian Fantasy. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 145 (Summer 1995): 148-150.
  • Articulate Silences by King-Kok Cheung
  • Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal by Karen Connelly
Art Asian Culture History Travel Writing
A Woman's Place
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in DeMille’s Utopian Fantasy. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 145 (Summer 1995): 147-148.
  • Kitchen Talk by Edna Alford (Editor) and Claire Harris (Editor)
  • Fresh Girls and Other Stories by Evelyn Lau
Asian American Literary Criticism Travel Writing
Travelling Women
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in East Asian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 140 (Spring 1994) (Spring 1994): 92-94.
  • Jin Guo - Voices of Chinese Canadian Women by Momoye Sugiman (Editor)
  • Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile by Roseann Lloyd (Editor) and Deborah Keenan (Editor)
Poetry Short Fiction Women's Literature
Looking for Happiness
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Of Borders and Bioregions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 218 (Autumn 2013): 155-56.
  • The Year of Broken Glass by Joe Denham
  • Extensions by Myrna Dey
Asian Culture Home & Family Women's Literature

Articles by Maria Noëlle Ng

Mapping the Diasporic Self
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 34-45.
Life Writing
Representing Chinatown: Dr. Fu-Manchu at the Disappearing Moon Cafe
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Asian Canadian Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 163 (Winter 1999): 157-175.
Art Asian Canadian Asian Culture Novel Women's Literature

Opinions by Maria Noëlle Ng

Warriors in Flight: John Buchan's War Novels
By Maria Noëlle Ng
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 188-192.
Asian Culture Cultural Studies Ethnic History Nationalism Postmodernism