China Abroad – Travels, Subjects, Spaces
Julia Kuehn author Elaine Yee Lin Ho author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hong Kong University Press
Published:1st Mar '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of the last century. In so doing, it aims to offer an overview of the debate about Chineseness as it has emerged in different global locations.
China Abroad is a valuable contribution to the field of transnational cultural studies of China. Its chapters weave together a richly textured palimpsest of competing discourses, images, representations, and dreams of what it means to be Chinese from the late nineteenth century up to the present. The careful study of these complex images in film, literature, media, and the internet generated from transversal spaces such as that of mainland intellectuals abroad, the former British colony of Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora from Southeast Asia, America, Europe, and Australia challenges hegemonic accounts of Chinese culture. The sheer diversity and heterogeneity of 'Chinese-ness' presented here functions as a conscientious corrective to the contemporary revival of Confucianism as the spirit of East Asian capitalism. -- Pheng Cheah, University of California at Berkeley
ISBN: 9789622099890
Dimensions: 228mm x 153mm x 17mm
Weight: 460g
304 pages