University of British Columbia Press
Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China
Communities and Cultural Production
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Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China
Communities and Cultural Production
Table of Contents
1 China Rising: A View and Review of China’s Diasporas since the 1980s / Julia Kuehn, Kam Louie, and David M. Pomfret
2 No Longer Chinese? Residual Chineseness after the Rise of China / Ien Ang
3 Twenty-Three Years in Migration, 1989-2012: A Writer’s View and Review / Ouyang Yu
4 Globe-Trotting Chinese Masculinity: Wealthy, Worldly, and Worthy / Kam Louie
5 Textual and Other Oxymorons: Sino-Anglophone Writing of War and Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
6 The Autoethnographic Impulse: Two New Zealand Chinese Playwrights / Hilary Chung
7 The Provocation of Dim Sum; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film / Rey Chow
8 Performing Bodies, Translated Histories: Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Transnational Cinema, and Chinese Diasporas / Cristina Demaria
9 Dancing in the Diaspora: “Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism” and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association / Sau-ling C. Wong
10 Tyranny of Taste: Chinese Aesthetics in Australia and on the World Stage / Yiyan Wang
11 Reconfiguring the Chinese Diaspora through the Eyes of Ethnic Minorities / Kwai-Cheung Lo
Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index