Ungrounded Empires

"This collection of essays is very coherent..." -- AsianThought and Society
"This fascinating and thought-provoking book explores Chinese identity in a wide range of national and regional settings and among a variety of people, from businessmen to consumers to women factory workers. All the chapters are excellent and...well written..." -- Journal of AsianStudies
"This extraodinarily coherent volume of superb papers not only completely revises and reframes the considerable tradition of scholarship on overseas Chinese and the source of Chinese nationalism, but it stands also as a much needed model of how recent largely theoretical discussions of transnationalism, diaspora and the formulation of identities might give substantive new contours to older regimes of culture area studies." -- George E. Marcus, Rice University
"The historical depth and interdisciplinary perspectives are significant contributions to the study of the complexity of Chinese transnational experiences." -- American Journal of Sociology
"Theoretically sophisticated and politically sensitive, Ungrounded Empires offers much that is original and thought-provoking, and is a welcome addition to an important new area of inquiry. Of interest not only for East/Southeast Asian and Pacific studies, but also to those interested in cultural studies and the contemporary political economy." -- Arif Dirlik, Duke University