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Contesting Chineseness - Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Contesting Chineseness - Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Asia in Transition, 14
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Combining a historical approach of Chineseness and a contemporary
perspective on the social construction of Chineseness, this book
provides comparative insights to understand the contingent
complexities of ethnic and social formations in both China and
among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. This book focuses on
the experiences and practices of these people, who as mobile agents
are free to embrace or reject being defined as Chinese by moving
across borders and reinterpreting their own histories. By
historicizing the notion of Chineseness at local, regional, and
global levels, the book examines intersections of authenticity,
authority, culture, identity, media, power, and international
relations that support or undermine different instances of
Chineseness and its representations. It seeks to rescue the present
from the past by presenting case studies of contingent encounters
that produce the ideas, practices, and identities that become the
categories nations need to justify their existence. The dynamic,
fluid representations of Chineseness illustrate that it has never
been an undifferentiated whole in both space and time. Through
physical movements and inherited knowledge, agents of Chineseness
have deployed various interpretive strategies to define and
represent themselves vis-a-vis the local, regional, and global in
their respective temporal experiences. This book will be relevant
to students and scholars in Chinese studies and Asian studies more
broadly, with a focus on identity politics, migration, popular
culture, and international relations. "The Chinese overseas often
saw themselves as caught between a rock and a hard place. The
collection of essays here highlights the variety of experiences in
Southeast Asia and China that suggest that the rock can become a
huge boulder with sharp edges and the hard places can have deadly
spikes. A must read for those who wonder whether Chineseness has
ever been what it seems." Wang Gungwu, University Professor,
National University of Singapore. "By including reflections on
constructions of Chineseness in both China itself and in various
Southeast Asian sites, the book shows that being Chinese is by no
means necessarily intertwined with China as a geopolitical concept,
while at the same time highlighting the incongruities and tensions
in the escapable relationship with China that diasporic Chinese
subjects variously embody, expressed in a wide range of social
phenomena such as language use, popular culture, architecture and
family relations. The book is a very welcome addition to the
necessary ongoing conversation on Chineseness in the 21st century."
Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western
Sydney University.
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