Ungrounded empires : the cultural politics of modern Chinese transnationalism / / Aihwa Ong and Donald M. Nonini, editors

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 909/.04951082
• Soggetto topico: Chinese - Foreign countries - Ethnic identity; Nationalism - China; Chinese - Foreign countries - Economic conditions
• Soggetto geografico: China Civilization
• Altri autori: OngAihwa NoniniDonald Macon
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter Introduction Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity -- chapter Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity / Donald M. Nonini -- chapter 1 modernity, many modernities? -- chapter Themes -- chapter The uses of family and guanxi: Flexibility and violence -- part Part 1 Transiting to Modernity: The Wildness and Power of Early Chinese Transnationalism -- chapter Preface -- chapter 1 Nationalists Among Transnationals: Overseas Chinese and the Idea of China, 1900-1911 / Prasenjit Duara -- chapter Revolutionary Nationalism: Forging a New Narrative -- chapter 2 Boundaries and Transgressions: Chinese Enterprise in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki -- chapter Chinese Trade in Premodern Southeast Asia -- part Part 2 Family, Guanxi, and Space: Discourses and Practices in the Age of Flexibility -- chapter Preface -- chapter 3 Space, Mobility, and Flexibility: Chinese Villagers and Scholars Negotiate Power at Home and Abroad / Xin Liu -- chapter Kinship as spatial strategies -- chapter References -- chapter 4 Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism: Different Cultural Logics in Labor Control / Ching Kwan Lee -- chapter 5 Building Guanxi Across the Straits: Taiwanese Capital and Local Chinese Bureaucrats You-tien Hsing -- part Part 3 Transnational Identities and Nation-State Regimes of Truth and Power -- chapter Preface -- chapter 6 Chinese Modernities: Narratives of Nation and of Capitalism / Aihwa Ong -- chapter Hierarchical Moral Economies: Hard Versus Soft Societies -- chapter Stitching Together Disjunctures at Home -- chapter Notes -- chapter 7 Shifting Identities, Positioned Imaginaries: Transnational Traversals and Reversals by Malaysian Chinese / Donald M. Nonini -- chapter Airplane Jumping and Gendered Imaginaries -- chapter In Inconclusion A Cascade of Symbolic Violence -- chapter 8 Transnational Subjects: Constituting the Cultural Citizen in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital / Katharyne Mitchell -- chapter The immigrant investor program -- chapter Notes -- part Part 4 The Self-Making and Being-Made of Transnational Subjectivities -- chapter Preface -- chapter 9 The Thoroughly Modern Asian: Capital, Culture, and Nation in Thailand and the Philippines / Cristina Szanton Blanc -- chapter References -- chapter 10 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re) Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis -- chapter A deterritorialized Chinese subjectivity -- chapter Notes -- chapter Afterword -- chapter Afterword Toward a Cultural Politics of Diaspora and Transnationalism / Aihwa Ong -- chapter References -- chapter Notes on Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines Chinese transnationalism as a distinctive domain within the new 'flexible' capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. It is based on new ethnographic research and interweaves anthropology, culture and politics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ungrounded empires
• ISBN: 0-00-591542-2; 1-135-96419-X; 1-135-96420-3; 0-415-91542-2; 0-203-42666-5; 1-280-07479-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820787203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II