Forget Chineseness
On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2017
296 pages
978-1-4384-6473-2 (ISBN)
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Critiques the idea of a Chinese cultural identity and argues that such identities are instead determined by geopolitical and economic forces.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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978-1-4384-6473-2 (9781438464732)
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Allen Chun is Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is the author of Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
Content
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Postwar, Post-Republican Taiwan: Civilizational Mythologies in the Politics of the Unreal
1. Chineseness, Literarily Speaking: The Burden of Tradition in the Making of Modernity
2. The Moral Cultivation of Citizenship as Acculturating and Socializing Regime
3. The Coming Crisis of Multiculturalism: When the Imagined Community Hits the Fan
Part II. Hong Kong Betwixt and Between: The Liminality of Culture Before the End of History
4. Hong Kong before Hong Kongness: The Changing Genealogies and Faces of Colonialism
5. Critical Cosmopolitanism in the Birth of Hong Kong Place-Based "Identity"
6. Hong Kong's Embrace of the Motherland: Economy and Culture as Fictive Commodities Part III. The Reclamation of National Destiny: On the Unbearable Heaviness of Identity
7. From the Ashes of Socialist Humanism: The Myth of Guanxi Exceptionalism in the PRC
8. A New Greater China: The Demise of Transnationalism and Other Great White Hopes
9. Confucius, Incorporated: The Advent of Capitalism with PRC Characteristics
Part IV. Who Wants to Be Diasporic? The Fictions and Facts of Critical Ethnic Subjectivity
10. The Yellow Pacific: Diasporas of Mind in the Politics of Caste Consciousness
11. Ethnicity in the Prison House of the Modern Nation: The State in Singapore as Exception
12. The Postcolonial Alien in Us All: Asian Studies in the International Division of Labor
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part I. Postwar, Post-Republican Taiwan: Civilizational Mythologies in the Politics of the Unreal
1. Chineseness, Literarily Speaking: The Burden of Tradition in the Making of Modernity
2. The Moral Cultivation of Citizenship as Acculturating and Socializing Regime
3. The Coming Crisis of Multiculturalism: When the Imagined Community Hits the Fan
Part II. Hong Kong Betwixt and Between: The Liminality of Culture Before the End of History
4. Hong Kong before Hong Kongness: The Changing Genealogies and Faces of Colonialism
5. Critical Cosmopolitanism in the Birth of Hong Kong Place-Based "Identity"
6. Hong Kong's Embrace of the Motherland: Economy and Culture as Fictive Commodities Part III. The Reclamation of National Destiny: On the Unbearable Heaviness of Identity
7. From the Ashes of Socialist Humanism: The Myth of Guanxi Exceptionalism in the PRC
8. A New Greater China: The Demise of Transnationalism and Other Great White Hopes
9. Confucius, Incorporated: The Advent of Capitalism with PRC Characteristics
Part IV. Who Wants to Be Diasporic? The Fictions and Facts of Critical Ethnic Subjectivity
10. The Yellow Pacific: Diasporas of Mind in the Politics of Caste Consciousness
11. Ethnicity in the Prison House of the Modern Nation: The State in Singapore as Exception
12. The Postcolonial Alien in Us All: Asian Studies in the International Division of Labor
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
