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Book SynopsisAs China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. For members of China's diasporic community, the rise of China created ripples of change, influencing communities, culture, and communication, and even challenging the very concept of diaspora.
Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China examines how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora responded to China's ascendancy by representing it to global audiences with a new-found vitality and self-assurance. The chapters, often personal in nature, cover locations as varied as Australia, North America, and Tibet. And yet, the focus of each is the nexus between the political and economic rise of China and the cultural products this period produced, a place where new ideas of nation, identity, and diaspora were forged.
Table of Contents1 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
