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Ungrounded empires : the cultural politics of modern Chinese transnationalism / Aihwa Ong and Donald M. Nonini, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity.
- Chinese.
- Nationalism--China.
- Nationalism.
- Chinese--Foreign countries--Economic conditions.
- China--Civilization.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines Chinese transnationalism as a distinctive domain within the new 'flexible' capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. It is based on new ethnographic research and interweaves anthropology, culture and politics.
- Contents:
- chapter Introduction Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity
- chapter Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity / Donald M. Nonini
- chapter 1 modernity, many modernities?
- chapter Themes
- chapter The uses of family and guanxi: Flexibility and violence
- part Part 1 Transiting to Modernity: The Wildness and Power of Early Chinese Transnationalism
- chapter Preface
- chapter 1 Nationalists Among Transnationals: Overseas Chinese and the Idea of China, 1900-1911 / Prasenjit Duara
- chapter Revolutionary Nationalism: Forging a New Narrative
- chapter 2 Boundaries and Transgressions: Chinese Enterprise in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki
- chapter Chinese Trade in Premodern Southeast Asia
- part Part 2 Family, Guanxi, and Space: Discourses and Practices in the Age of Flexibility
- chapter 3 Space, Mobility, and Flexibility: Chinese Villagers and Scholars Negotiate Power at Home and Abroad / Xin Liu
- chapter Kinship as spatial strategies
- chapter References
- chapter 4 Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism: Different Cultural Logics in Labor Control / Ching Kwan Lee
- chapter 5 Building Guanxi Across the Straits: Taiwanese Capital and Local Chinese Bureaucrats You-tien Hsing
- part Part 3 Transnational Identities and Nation-State Regimes of Truth and Power
- chapter 6 Chinese Modernities: Narratives of Nation and of Capitalism / Aihwa Ong
- chapter Hierarchical Moral Economies: Hard Versus Soft Societies
- chapter Stitching Together Disjunctures at Home
- chapter Notes
- chapter 7 Shifting Identities, Positioned Imaginaries: Transnational Traversals and Reversals by Malaysian Chinese / Donald M. Nonini
- chapter Airplane Jumping and Gendered Imaginaries
- chapter In Inconclusion A Cascade of Symbolic Violence
- chapter 8 Transnational Subjects: Constituting the Cultural Citizen in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital / Katharyne Mitchell
- chapter The immigrant investor program
- part Part 4 The Self-Making and Being-Made of Transnational Subjectivities
- chapter 9 The Thoroughly Modern Asian: Capital, Culture, and Nation in Thailand and the Philippines / Cristina Szanton Blanc
- chapter 10 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re) Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis
- chapter A deterritorialized Chinese subjectivity
- chapter Afterword
- chapter Afterword Toward a Cultural Politics of Diaspora and Transnationalism / Aihwa Ong
- chapter Notes on Contributors.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-00-591542-2
- 1-135-96419-X
- 1-135-96420-3
- 0-415-91542-2
- 0-203-42666-5
- 1-280-07479-5
- 9780203426661
- OCLC:
- 437084897
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