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Forget Chineseness : on the geopolitics of cultural identification /

Forget Chineseness provides a critical interpretation of not only discourses of Chinese identity - Chineseness - but also of how they have reflected differences between "Chinese" societies, such as in Hong Kong, Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Singapore, and communities overseas....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chun, Allen John Uck Lun, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Colección:SUNY series in global modernity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.