Siting postcoloniality : critical perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere / Pheng Cheah and Caroline S. Hau, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheah, Pheng, editor.

Hau, Caroline S., 1969- editor.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Sinotheory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism--China.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism--Southeast Asia.

Postcolonialism--East Asia.

China--Relations--Southeast Asia.

China.

Southeast Asia--Relations--China.

Southeast Asia.

China--Relations--East Asia.

East Asia--Relations--China.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 331 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere-the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center/periphery, colonizer/colonized, and developed/developing. Among other topics, they examine socialist China's attempts to break with Soviet cultural hegemony, the postcoloniality of Taiwan as it negotiates the legacy of Japanese colonial rule, Southeast Asian and South Asian diasporic experiences of colonialism, and Hong Kong's complex colonial experiences under the British, the Japanese, and mainland China. The contributors show how postcolonial theory's central concepts cannot adequately explain colonialism in the Sinosphere. Challenging fundamental axioms of postcolonial studies, the volume forcefully suggests that postcolonial theory needs to be rethought. Contributors. Pheng Cheah, Dai Jinhua, Caroline S. Hau, Elaine Yee Lin Ho, Wendy Larson, Liao Ping-hui, Lin Pei-yin, Lo Kwai-Cheung, Lui Tai-lok, Pang Laikwan, Lisa Rofel, David Wang, Erebus Wong, Robert J. C. Young."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory / Pheng Cheah

Framing the Postcolonial

Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality/ Robert J. C. Young

On Twenty-First Century Postcolonialism/ Dai Jinhua, translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel

Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality

Who Owns Social Justice?: Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial / Wendy Larson

De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People's Republic of China's Alternative Modernity Project / Pang Laikwan

Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires

From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences / Lo Kwai-Cheung

Decolonization? What Decolonization?: Hong Kong's Political Transition / Lui Tai-lok

Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho

Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialisms

The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan / Lin Pei-yin

Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan / Liao Ping-hui

Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality

Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism / David Der-wei Wang

Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies / Caroline S. Hau

Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization / Pheng Cheah.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Siting postcoloniality.

ISBN:

9781478023951

1478023953

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