Visuality and Identity
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Visuality and Identity

Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

  1. 257 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Visuality and Identity

Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

About this book

Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, Shih examines the production and circulation of images across what she terms the "Sinophone Pacific," which comprises Sinitic-language speaking communities such as the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America. This groundbreaking work argues that the dispersal of the so-called Chinese peoples across the world needs to be reconceptualized in terms of vibrant or vanishing communities of Sinitic-language cultures rather than of ethnicity and nationality.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. About Romanization
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Globalization and Minoritization
  7. 2. A Feminist Transnationality
  8. 3. The Geopolitics of Desire
  9. 4. The Incredible Heaviness of Ambiguity
  10. 5. After National Allegory
  11. 6. Cosmopolitanism among Empires
  12. Conclusion.: The Time and Place of the Sinophone