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Forget Chineseness : on the geopolitics of cultural identification / Allen Chun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chun, Allen John Uck Lun, 1952- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in global modernity
- SUNY series in Global Modernity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese diaspora.
- Chinese--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity.
- Chinese.
- Chinese--Ethnic identity.
- National characteristics, Chinese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Postwar, post-republican Taiwan: civilizational mythologies in the politics of the unreal
- Chineseness, literarily speaking: the burden of tradition in the making of modernity
- The moral cultivation of citizenship as acculturating and socializing regime
- The coming crisis of multiculturalism: when the imagined community hits the fan
- Hong Kong betwixt and between: the liminality of culture before the end of history
- Hong Kong before Hong Kongness: the changing genealogies and faces of colonialism
- Critical cosmopolitanism in the birth of Hong Kong place-based "identity"
- Hong Kong's embrace of the motherland: economy and culture as fictive commodities
- The reclamation of national destiny: on the unbearable heaviness of identity
- From the ashes of socialist humanism: the myth of Guanxi exceptionalism in the PRC
- A new greater China: the demise of transnationalism and other great white hopes
- Confucius, incorporated: the advent of capitalism with PRC characteristics
- Who wants to be diasporic? The fictions and facts of critical ethnic subjectivity
- The yellow Pacific: diasporas of mind in the politics of caste consciousness
- Ethnicity in the prisonhouse of the modern nation: the state in Singapore as exception
- The postcolonial alien in us all: Asian studies in the international division of labor
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Chun, Allen John Uck Lun, 1952- author. Forget Chineseness
- ISBN:
- 9781438464732
- 1438464738
- Publisher Number:
- 90102520985
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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