Chun Forget Chineseness

On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6473-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Global Modernity

Critiques the idea of a Chinese cultural identity and argues that such identities are instead determined by geopolitical and economic forces.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chun, Allen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction

Part I. Postwar, Post-Republican Taiwan: Civilizational Mythologies in the Politics of the Unreal

1. Chineseness, Literarily Speaking: The Burden of Tradition in the Making of Modernity

2. The Moral Cultivation of Citizenship as Acculturating and Socializing Regime

3. The Coming Crisis of Multiculturalism: When the Imagined Community Hits the Fan

Part II. Hong Kong Betwixt and Between: The Liminality of Culture Before the End of History

4. Hong Kong before Hong Kongness: The Changing Genealogies and Faces of Colonialism

5. Critical Cosmopolitanism in the Birth of Hong Kong Place-Based “Identity”

6. Hong Kong’s Embrace of the Motherland: Economy and Culture as Fictive Commodities Part III. The Reclamation of National Destiny: On the Unbearable Heaviness of Identity

7. From the Ashes of Socialist Humanism: The Myth of Guanxi Exceptionalism in the PRC

8. A New Greater China: The Demise of Transnationalism and Other Great White Hopes

9. Confucius, Incorporated: The Advent of Capitalism with PRC Characteristics

Part IV. Who Wants to Be Diasporic? The Fictions and Facts of Critical Ethnic Subjectivity

10. The Yellow Pacific: Diasporas of Mind in the Politics of Caste Consciousness

11. Ethnicity in the Prison House of the Modern Nation: The State in Singapore as Exception

12. The Postcolonial Alien in Us All: Asian Studies in the International Division of Labor

Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Allen Chun is Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is the author of Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong.