Forget Chineseness : on the geopolitics of cultural identification
Allen Chun
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
| Omfang | XII, 284 sider
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| Opplysninger | 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.
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| ISBN | 9781438464718. - 9781438464725
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