Ungrounded Empires

This book examines Chinese transnationalism as a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Interweaving anthropology, cultural studies, and interpretive political economy, essays in this book are based on new ethnographic research, in a range of sites, that examine the connections of human agency, cultural politics, and indeed pathos. Critiquing the view that these changes are the product of the ways that late capitalism and its concomitants--flexibility, travel, sub-contracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--are reworking the identities of an ethnic population in different global situations. Contributors: Cristina Szanton Blanc, Prasenjit Duara, Takeshi Hamashita, You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee, Xin Liu, Katharyne Mitchell, Donal Nonini, Aihwa Ong, Carl Trocki, Wong Siu Lun, and Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang.

Introduction Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity

3

(34)

Donald M. Nonini

Aihwa Ong

Part 1 Transiting to Modernity: The Wildness and Power of Early Chinese Transnationalism

37

(52)

Preface

37

(2)

1 Nationalists Among Transnationals: Overseas Chinese and the Idea of China, 1900-1911

39

(22)

Prasenjit Duara

2 Boundaries and Transgressions: Chinese Enterprise in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia

61

(28)

Carl A. Trocki

Part 2 Family, Guanxi, and Space: Discourses and Practices in the Age of Flexibility

89

(78)

Preface

89

(2)

3 Space, Mobility, and Flexibility: Chinese Villagers and Scholars Negotiate Power at Home and Abroad

91

(24)

Xin Liu

4 Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism: Different Cultural Logics in Labor Control

115

(28)

Ching Kwan Lee

5 Building Guanxi Across the Straits: Taiwanese Capital and Local Chinese Bureaucrats

143

(24)

You-tien Hsing

Part 3 Transnational Identities and Nation-State Regimes of Truth and Power

167

(92)

Preface

167

(4)

6 Chinese Modernities: Narratives of Nation and of Capitalism

171

(32)

Aihwa Ong

7 Shifting Identities, Positioned Imaginaries: Transnational Traversals and Reversals by Malaysian Chinese

203

(25)

Donald M. Nonini

8 Transnational Subjects: Constituting the Cultural Citizen in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital

228

(31)

Katharyne Mitchell

Part 4 The Self-Making and Being-Made of Transnational Subjectivities

259

(64)

Preface

259

(2)

9 The Thoroughly Modern "Asian": Capital, Culture, and Nation in Thailand and the Philippines

261

(26)

Cristina Szanton Blanc

10 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis

287

(36)

Mayfair Mei-hui Yang

Afterword Toward a Cultural Politics of Diaspora and Transnationalism

323

(10)

Aihwa Ong

Donald M. Nonini

Notes on Contributors

333

(4)

Index

337

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