the cultural politics of modern Chinese transnationalism /
Aihwa Ong and Donald M. Nonini, editors.
New York :
Routledge,
1997.
1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chinese transnationalism as an alternative modernity / Donald M. Nonini and Aihwa Ong -- Nationalists among transnationals : overseas Chinese and the idea of China, 1900-1911 / Prasenjit Duara -- Boundaries and transgressions : Chinese enterprise in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki -- Space, mobility, and flexibility : Chinese villagers and scholars negotiate power at home and abroad / Xin Liu -- Factory regimes of Chinese capitalism : different cultural logics in labor control / Ching Kwan Lee -- Building Guanxi across the straits : Taiwanese capital and local Chinese bureaucrats / You-tien Hsing -- Chinese modernities : narratives of nation and of capitalism / Aihwa Ong -- Shifting identities, positioned imaginaries : transnational traversals and reversals by Malaysian Chinese / Donald M. Nonini -- Transnational subjects : constituting the cultural citizen in the era of Pacific Rim capital / Katharyne Mitchell -- The thoroughly modern "Asian" : capital, culture, and nation in Thailand and the Philippines / Cristina Szanton Blanc -- Mass media and transnational subjectivity in Shanghai : notes on (re)cosmopolitanism in a Chinese metropolis / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- Toward a cultural politics of diaspora and transnationalism / Aihwa Ong and Donald M. Nonini.
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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.