Ungrounded Empires : The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (Paperback)

Introduction Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity Part 1 Transiting to Modernity: The Wildness and Power of Early Chinese Transnationalism 1 Nationalists Among Transnationals: Overseas Chinese and the Idea of China, 1900?1911 2 Boundaries and Transgressions: Chinese Enterprise in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia Part 2 Family, Guanxi, and Space: Discourses and Practices in the Age of Flexibility 3 Space, Mobility, and Flexibility: Chinese Villagers and Scholars Negotiate Power at Home and Abroad 4 Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism: Different Cultural Logics in Labor Control Guanxi Across the Straits: Taiwanese Capital and Local Chinese Bureaucrats Part 3 Transnational Identities and Nation-State Regimes of Truth and Power 6 Chinese Modernities: Narratives of Nation and of Capitalism 7 Shifting Identities, Positioned Imaginaries: Transnational Traversals and Reversals by Malaysian Chinese 8 Transnational Subjects: Constituting the Cultural Citizen in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital Part 4 The Self-Making and Being-Made of Transnational Subjectivities 9 The Thoroughly Modern “Asian”: Capital, Culture, and Nation in Thailand and the Philippines 10 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re) Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis Afterword Toward a Cultural Politics of Diaspora and Transnationalism