On Not Speaking Chinese : Living between Asia and the West (Paperback)

Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction: Between Asia and the West Beyond Asia: Deconstructing Diaspora 1. On Not Speaking Chinese - Postmodern Ethnicity and the Politics of Diaspora 2. Can One Say No to the Chineseness? - Pushing the Limits of Diasporic Paradigm 3. Indonesia on My Mind - Diaspora, Internet and the Struggle for Hybridity 4. Undoing Diaspora - Questioning Global Chineseness Beyond the West: Negotiating Multiculturalism 5. Multiculturalism in Crisis - The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia 6. Asians and Australians - A Contradiction in Terms? 7. Racial/Spatial Anxeity - 'Asia' in the Psycho-Geography of Australian Whiteness 8. The Curse of the Smile - Ambivalence and the Asian Woman in Multicultural Australia 9. Identity Blues - Rescuing Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Globalization Beyond Identity 10. Local/Global Negotiations - Doing Cultural Studies at the Crossroads 11. I'm a Feminist but... - 'Other Women' and Postnational Identities 12. Conclusion: Together in Difference - The Uses and Abuses of Hybridity Notes. Bibliography. Index.