一日前华裔美国学者、加州大学洛杉矶分校的凌津奇教授举五年研究之力推出了关于日裔美国作家山下凯伦小说的研究新著《越过子午线:山下凯伦跨国小说的历史与虚构》,该书已纳入斯坦福大学的亚裔美国研究系列丛书出版,颇值一观。山下凯伦(Karen Tei Yamashita)对于亚裔美国文学界而言并不是一个陌生的名字。虽然在中国国内的亚裔文学研究焦点仍然是处于华裔大热的局面, A few days ago, a Chinese American scholar and professor Ling Jinqi from UCLA held a five-year research effort to launch a new study on Japanese-American writer Yamashita Karen’s novel, “Crossing the Meridian: The History and Fiction of Cross-country Novels by Koyama Karasu” , The book has been included in Stanford University Asian American series of books published, quite a value. Karen Tei Yamashita is not a strange name for Asian American literary worlds. Although the focus of Asian literary studies in China is still at a very hot situation for Chinese,