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@article{ART003290837},
author={Liu, Yaxiang},
title={A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom},
journal={Journal of Chinese Language and Literature},
issn={1225-083X},
year={2025},
number={100},
pages={241-259},
doi={10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241}

TY - JOUR
AU - Liu, Yaxiang
TI - A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom
JO - Journal of Chinese Language and Literature
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 100
PB - Chinese Literary Society Of Yeong Nam
SP - 241
EP - 259
SN - 1225-083X
AB - This paper, from a Trans-East Asian perspective, explores the logic of sacrifice under “compressed modernity” as depicted in Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom. The study finds that although the two works are set in distinct urban spaces—Shanghai and Seoul—they both reveal the spiritual uprooting and disintegration of familial structures brought about by rapid modernization. The Song of Everlasting Sorrow reflects the loss of urban identity and individual belonging through the decay of civic culture and Wang Qiyao’s death, while Please Look After Mom uses the mother’s disappearance to symbolize the rupture of family ethics. Both narratives articulate a modernization process achieved at the expense of emotion and memory, thereby exposing the paradox of “development through sacrifice” that characterizes East Asian modernity.
KW - compressed modernity;Trans-East Asian perspective;logic of sacrifice;spiritual uprooting;family structure
DO - 10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241
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Liu, Yaxiang. (2025). A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom. Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, 100, 241-259.

Liu, Yaxiang. 2025, "A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom", Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, no.100, pp.241-259. Available from: doi:10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241

Liu, Yaxiang "A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom" Journal of Chinese Language and Literature 100 pp.241-259 (2025) : 241.

Liu, Yaxiang. A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom. 2025; 100 : 241-259. Available from: doi:10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241

Liu, Yaxiang. "A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom" Journal of Chinese Language and Literature no.100(2025) : 241-259.doi: 10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241

Liu, Yaxiang. A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom. Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, 100, 241-259. doi: 10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241

Liu, Yaxiang. A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom. Journal of Chinese Language and Literature. 2025; 100 241-259. doi: 10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241

Liu, Yaxiang. A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom. 2025; 100 : 241-259. Available from: doi:10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241

Liu, Yaxiang. "A Trans-East Asian Study on the Logic of Sacrifice under Compressed Modernity: Focusing on Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom" Journal of Chinese Language and Literature no.100(2025) : 241-259.doi: 10.15792/clsyn..100.202512.241