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Author Shih, Shu-mei, 1961-

Title Visuality and identity : Sinophone articulations across the Pacific / Shu-mei Shih
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Series Asia Pacific modern
Asia Pacific modern.
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; About Romanization; Introduction; Visuality in Global Capitalism; Identity in Global Capitalism; Sinophone Articulations; 1. Globalization and Minoritization; The Limits of a Coup d'État in Theory; Flexibility and Nodal Points; Flexibility and Translatability; 2. A Feminist Transnationality; Identity Fragment 1: Feminist Antagonism against Chinese Patriarchy; Identity Fragment 2: Liberal Antagonism against the Maoist State; Identity fragment 3: Antagonism of a Minority Subject; Identity Fragment 4: Antagonism against the Western Gaze
Summary 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
Notes "Philip E. Lilienthal book"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index
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Subject Chinese -- Ethnic identity
National characteristics, Chinese.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Chinese -- Ethnic identity
National characteristics, Chinese
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696619
ISBN 9780520940154
0520940156
9781435601963
1435601963
1282772120
9781282772120
9786612772122
6612772123