Lillian Ngan

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Lillian’s research focuses on Sinophone literature, film and media, with a particular emphasis on the imaginaries of Vietnam and Vietnameseness within Sinophone discourse. In her dissertation titled, “Beyond Pacification: Vietnam’s Circulation in Trans-Asian Sinophone Cultural Imaginaries,” she examines how Sinophone cultural production unsettles the Sino-centric framing of Vietnam as a place to be pacified.

Research Keywords

Sinophone literature, film, and media, inter-Asia/ trans-Asia cultural studies, transpacific studies, global Asias studies