Format:
xxxvi, 439 Seiten
ISBN:
9789811212345
,
9780000987846
Content:
"Colonial legacies in knowledge production affect the way the world is represented and understood today. However, the subject is rarely attended. The book, Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self, is about the colonial construction of intellectual perspectives of the colonized population in terms of the latter's approach to China and Chineseness in the modern world. Relying on the available oral histories of senior China scholars primarily in Asia, authors from various postcolonial and colonial sites present these multiple routs of self-constitution and reconstitution through the use of China and Chineseness as category. The revealed manipulation of this third category, romantically as well as antagonistically, is easier than straightforward self-reflection for us all to accept that, coming to identities and relations, none, even subaltern, is politically innocent or capable of epistemological monopoly. Through comparative studies, it shows a way of self-understanding that does not always require discursive construction of border or cultural consumption of any specific "other""--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Colonial legacies and contemporary studies of China and Chineseness New Jersey : World Scientific, 2020 ISBN 9789811212352
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811212345
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
;
Diaspora
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte
;
Oral history
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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