Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 243 pages, [8] pages of plates)
,
illustrations (some color)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520224515
,
0520249445
,
0520940156
,
1435601963
,
9780520224513
,
9780520249448
,
9780520940154
,
9781435601963
Series Statement:
Asia Pacific modern
Content:
Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, Shih examines the production and circulation of images across what she terms the "Sinophone Pacific," which comprises Sinitic-language speaking communities such as the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America. This groundbreaking wo
Content:
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; About Romanization; Introduction; Visuality in Global Capitalism; Identity in Global Capitalism; Sinophone Articulations; 1. Globalization and Minoritization; The Limits of a Coup d'État in Theory; Flexibility and Nodal Points; Flexibility and Translatability; 2. A Feminist Transnationality; Identity Fragment 1: Feminist Antagonism against Chinese Patriarchy; Identity Fragment 2: Liberal Antagonism against the Maoist State; Identity fragment 3: Antagonism of a Minority Subject; Identity Fragment 4: Antagonism against the Western Gaze
Note:
"Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Title page verso
,
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520224513
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520224515
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520249448
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520249445
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shi, Shumei, 1961- Visuality and identity Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007
Language:
English
URL:
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