Crouching Tiger, Hidden Heritage: Reading the Miniature in Edmund De Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes and Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”
Abstract:The symbolic importance of miniature artifacts within anglophone literary works is a scholarly question that requires no particular defense, and yet the same is not the case when it comes to those miniatures of an East Asian cultural provenance and premodern lineage. This essay comparatively examines Edmund de...