Writing Chinese : Reshaping Chinese Cultural Identity

This is a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges current discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, L
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Edition:1st ed
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I The Debate
  • Introduction: Dis/Claiming "Chineseness
  • 1 The "Right" to Copy and the "Copyright": Authenticity, Hybridity, and Cultural Identity
  • Part II The Issues
  • 2 Negotiating China's Cultural Authority: Technology of Genealogy and the Self
  • 3 Refashioning Cultural Authenticity: Taiwan
  • 4 Hong Kong Androgynous: Embodying Cultural Hybridity
  • 5 Chinese American? American Chinese? Community Building as Subject Making
  • Part III The Vision
  • 6 Chinese Diaspora and Transnationality: Envisioning Global Citizen/ship
  • 7 Globalizing the Self: The Aesthetics of Hybridity
  • Coda: Cultural Identity and Cultural Globalization
  • Chinese Names and Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • W
  • Y
  • Z