In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on "overseas Chinese" and their unique location in the global arena.
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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"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
Introduction Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity Part 1
Transiting to Modernity: The Wildness and Power of Early Chinese
Transnationalism 1 Nationalists Among Transnationals: Overseas Chinese and
the Idea of China, 19001911 2 Boundaries and Transgressions: Chinese
Enterprise in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia Part 2
Family, Guanxi, and Space: Discourses and Practices in the Age of Flexibility
3 Space, Mobility, and Flexibility: Chinese Villagers and Scholars Negotiate
Power at Home and Abroad 4 Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism: Different
Cultural Logics in Labor Control Guanxi Across the Straits: Taiwanese Capital
and Local Chinese Bureaucrats Part 3 Transnational Identities and
Nation-State Regimes of Truth and Power 6 Chinese Modernities: Narratives of
Nation and of Capitalism 7 Shifting Identities, Positioned Imaginaries:
Transnational Traversals and Reversals by Malaysian Chinese 8 Transnational
Subjects: Constituting the Cultural Citizen in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital
Part 4 The Self-Making and Being-Made of Transnational Subjectivities 9 The
Thoroughly Modern Asian: Capital, Culture, and Nation in Thailand and the
Philippines 10 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes
on (Re) Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis Afterword Toward a Cultural
Politics of Diaspora and Transnationalism
Aihwa Ong is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Nonini is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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