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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. Review 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 Ch

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Author

Aihwa Ong and Donald M. Nonini, editors

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203443293

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Anthropology, History