Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism

Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism

Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism

Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism

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Overview

In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on "overseas Chinese" and their unique location in the global arena.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135964191
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/16/2003
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Aihwa Ong is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Nonini is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity Part 1 Transiting to Modernity: The Wildness and Power of Early Chinese Transnationalism 1 Nationalists Among Transnationals: Overseas Chinese and the Idea of China, 1900–1911 2 Boundaries and Transgressions: Chinese Enterprise in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia Part 2 Family, Guanxi, and Space: Discourses and Practices in the Age of Flexibility 3 Space, Mobility, and Flexibility: Chinese Villagers and Scholars Negotiate Power at Home and Abroad 4 Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism: Different Cultural Logics in Labor Control Guanxi Across the Straits: Taiwanese Capital and Local Chinese Bureaucrats Part 3 Transnational Identities and Nation-State Regimes of Truth and Power 6 Chinese Modernities: Narratives of Nation and of Capitalism 7 Shifting Identities, Positioned Imaginaries: Transnational Traversals and Reversals by Malaysian Chinese 8 Transnational Subjects: Constituting the Cultural Citizen in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital Part 4 The Self-Making and Being-Made of Transnational Subjectivities 9 The Thoroughly Modern “Asian”: Capital, Culture, and Nation in Thailand and the Philippines 10 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re) Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis Afterword Toward a Cultural Politics of Diaspora and Transnationalism
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