Resistance in the Era of Nationalisms: Performing Identities in Taiwan and Hong Kong

by Hsin-I Cheng, Hsin-i Sydney Yueh

Overview

The desire of the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong to exercise democratic self-rule, fully embody their local identities, and become global citizens challenges the big-power politics between China and the United States. Occupying a critical stance on the margins, the local perspectives and international relations of these two cosmopolitan and postcolonial societies challenge both narratives centered on China and those focused on the U.S.-China power struggle. Taking a culture-centered approach to the communicative process of “glocalized resistance” in an era of rising nationalisms, the chapters in this volume address topics ranging from the rhetoric of political leaders and the language games of mass protesters on social media to resistant street performance. These chapters showcase the geocultural identity-in-the-making of the Taiwanese and Hong Kong people and offer insights into societies under imminent threat by an aggressive neighbor. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611864564
Publisher:	Michigan State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2023
Series:	US-China Relations in the Age of Globalization
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Hsin-I Cheng is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University. Cheng’s work appears in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Communication, Western Journal of Communication, and Women & Language. Her first book, Culturing Interface: Identity, Communication, and Chinese Transnationalism, received the 2009 Outstanding Book Award from National Communication Association’s (NCA) International and Intercultural Communication Division. The book is a critical ethnography unpacking several Taiwanese and Chinese communities living and working on the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2021, she published her second book, Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship. In this work, Cheng develops a theoretical concept derived from Taiwanese experiences, and shows its application to citizenship development in other cultural contexts.
 


Hsin-i Sydney Yueh is associate teaching professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri. Her research examines how culture shapes communication in various groups and communities. Her book, Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan: A Sajiao Generation, received the Outstanding Book Award for the International and Intercultural Communication Division at the 2018 National Communication Association (NCA) convention. The earlier version of this book was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Language and Social Interaction Division at the 2013 NCA conference. Yueh’s research has been published in NCA journals, such as Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Critical Studies of Media Communication, in addition to specialty journals focusing on East Asia, China, and Taiwan. Yueh was the recipient of a Taiwan Fellowship in 2021 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan.