William Cheng: 3 books

Book cover of Just Vibrations

Just Vibrations

The Purpose of Sounding Good

by William Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016

Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readingsā€”interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spoken...
Book cover of Sound Play

Sound Play

Video Games and the Musical Imagination

by William Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014

Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements...
Book cover of China and Southeast Asia in the Xi Jinping Era
by Trin Aiyara, Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, Ngeow Chow-Bing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018

In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) inaugurated the Xi Jinping era when it elected him to be the General Secretary of the CPC. The following year Xi was elected President of the Peopleā€™s Republic of China. The Xi Jinping era has seen a remarkable transformation of Chinese foreign policy,...
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