In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on "overseas Chinese" and their unique location in the global arena.
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This collection of essays is very coherent....
–Asian Thought and Society
This fascinating and thought-provoking book explores Chinese identity in a wide range of national and regional settings and among a variety of people, from businessmen to consumers to women factory workers. All the chapters are excellent and...well written.....
–Journal of Asian Studies
This extraodinarily coherent volume of superb papers not only completely revises and reframes the considerable tradition of scholarship on overseas Chinese and the source of Chinese nationalism, but it stands also as a much needed model of how recent largely theoretical discussions of transnationalism, diaspora and the formulation of identities might give substantive new contours to older regimes of culture area studies.
–George E. Marcus, Rice University
The historical depth and interdisciplinary perspectives are significant contributions to the study of the complexity of Chinese transnational experiences.
–American Journal of Sociology, March 1998
Theoretically sophisticated and politically sensitive, Ungrounded Empires offers much that is original and thought-provoking, and is a welcome addition to an important new area of inquiry. Of interest not only for East/Southeast Asian and Pacific studies, but also to those interested in cultural studies and the contemporary political economy.
–Arif Dirlik, Duke University
–Asian Thought and Society
This fascinating and thought-provoking book explores Chinese identity in a wide range of national and regional settings and among a variety of people, from businessmen to consumers to women factory workers. All the chapters are excellent and...well written.....
–Journal of Asian Studies
This extraodinarily coherent volume of superb papers not only completely revises and reframes the considerable tradition of scholarship on overseas Chinese and the source of Chinese nationalism, but it stands also as a much needed model of how recent largely theoretical discussions of transnationalism, diaspora and the formulation of identities might give substantive new contours to older regimes of culture area studies.
–George E. Marcus, Rice University
The historical depth and interdisciplinary perspectives are significant contributions to the study of the complexity of Chinese transnational experiences.
–American Journal of Sociology, March 1998
Theoretically sophisticated and politically sensitive, Ungrounded Empires offers much that is original and thought-provoking, and is a welcome addition to an important new area of inquiry. Of interest not only for East/Southeast Asian and Pacific studies, but also to those interested in cultural studies and the contemporary political economy.
–Arif Dirlik, Duke University
About the Author
Aihwa Ong is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Nonini is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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The problem with modern territorial nationalism is that while it is the only acceptable form of sovereignty in the modern world, it is an inadequate basis of affective identification within the nation-state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
familistic regimes, transnational reversals, maiden workers, localistic networks, urban megaprojects, business immigration program, disciplinable subjects, transnational traversals, great syndicate, overseas scholars, revenue farms, opium farmers, opium farms, westside neighborhoods, revenue farming, flexible capitalism, transnational practices, guanxi networks, flexible citizenship, transnational publics, repair workers, factory regimes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, United States, New York, Asia Pacific, University of California Press, Greater China, Pacific Rim, Cornell University Press, Aihwa Ong, British Columbia, Malaysian Chinese, New Zealand, World War, Public Culture, Stanford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, Szanton Blanc, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Glick Schiller, Lee Kuan Yew, David Lam New!
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familistic regimes, transnational reversals, maiden workers, localistic networks, urban megaprojects, business immigration program, disciplinable subjects, transnational traversals, great syndicate, overseas scholars, revenue farms, opium farmers, opium farms, westside neighborhoods, revenue farming, flexible capitalism, transnational practices, guanxi networks, flexible citizenship, transnational publics, repair workers, factory regimes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, United States, New York, Asia Pacific, University of California Press, Greater China, Pacific Rim, Cornell University Press, Aihwa Ong, British Columbia, Malaysian Chinese, New Zealand, World War, Public Culture, Stanford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, Szanton Blanc, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Glick Schiller, Lee Kuan Yew, David Lam New!
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