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Title Siting postcoloniality : critical perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere / edited by Pheng Cheah and Caroline S. Hau
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 331 pages)
Series Sinotheory
Sinotheory.
Contents Introduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory / Pheng Cheah -- Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality / Robert J.C. Young -- On Twenty-First Century Postcolonialism / Dai Jinhua ; translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel -- Who Owns Social Justice?: Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial / Wendy Larson -- De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People's Republic of China's Alternative Modernity Project / Pang Laikwan -- From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences / Lo Kwai-Cheung -- Decolonization? What Decolonization?: Hong Kong's Political Transition / Lui Tai-lok -- Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho -- The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan / Lin Pei-yin -- Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan / Liao Ping-hui -- Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism / David Der-wei Wang -- Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies / Caroline S. Hau -- Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization / Pheng Cheah
Summary "The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality 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 Sinosphere. Challenging fundamental axioms of postcolonial studies, the volume forcefully suggests that postcolonial theory needs to be rethought. Contributors. Pheng Cheah, Dai Jinhua, Caroline S. Hau, Elaine Yee Lin Ho, Wendy Larson, Liao Ping-hui, Lin Pei-yin, Lo Kwai-Cheung, Lui Tai-lok, Pang Laikwan, Lisa Rofel, David Wang, Erebus Wong, Robert J.C. Young."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2022)
Subject Postcolonialism -- China
Postcolonialism -- Southeast Asia
Postcolonialism -- East Asia
HISTORY / Asia / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Postcolonialism
International relations
SUBJECT China -- Relations -- Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia -- Relations -- China
China -- Relations -- East Asia
East Asia -- Relations -- China
Subject Southeast Asia
East Asia
China
Form Electronic book
Author Cheah, Pheng, editor.
Hau, Caroline S., 1969- editor.
LC no. 2022027014
ISBN 1478023953
9781478023951