{"product_id":"siting-postcoloniality-9781478016687","title":"Siting Postcoloniality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eSiting Postcoloniality\u003c\/i\u003e reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center-periphery, colonizer-colonized, and developed-developing. Among other topics, they examine socialist China’s attempts to break with Soviet cultural hegemony; the postcoloniality of Taiwan as it negotiates the legacy of Japanese colonial rule; Southeast Asian and South Asian diasporic experiences of colonialism; and Hong Kong’s complex colonial experiences under the British, the Japanese, and mainland China. The contributors show how postcolonial theory’s central concepts cannot adequately explain colonialism in the Sinosphe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface \/ Carlos Rojas  vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory \/ Pheng Cheah  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Framing the Postcolonial\u003cbr\u003e 1. Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality \/ Robert J. C. Young  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism \/ Dai Jinhua, translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel  53\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality\u003cbr\u003e 3. Who Owns Social Justice? Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial \/ Wendy Larson  71\u003cbr\u003e 4. De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People’s Republic of China’s Alternative Modernity Project \/ Pang Laikwan  90\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires\u003cbr\u003e 5. From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences \/ Lo Kwai-Cheung  109\u003cbr\u003e 6. Decolonization? What Decolonization? Hong Kong’s Political Transition \/ Lui Tai-lok  127\u003cbr\u003e 7. Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong \/ Elaine Yee Lin Ho  148\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialisms\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan \/ Lin Pei-yin  171\u003cbr\u003e 9. Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan \/ Liao Ping-hui  191\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality\u003cbr\u003e 10. Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism \/ David Der-wei Wang  213\u003cbr\u003e 11. Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies \/ Caroline S. Hau  232\u003cbr\u003e 12. Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization \/ Pheng Cheah  250\u003cbr\u003e References  277\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  313\u003cbr\u003e Index  315","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409004044631,"sku":"9781478016687","price":78.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478016687.jpg?v=1730505054","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/siting-postcoloniality-9781478016687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}