Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere 9781478023951

The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sino-sphere—the

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Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere
9781478023951

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Pheng Cheah (editor)
Caroline S. Hau (editor)

Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory
Part I Framing the Postcolonial
1 Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality
2 On Twenty-First- Century Postcolonialism Dai Jinhua
Part II Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality
3 Who Owns Social Justice? Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial
4 De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People’s Republic of China’s Alternative Modernity Project
Part III Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires
5 From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences
6 Decolonization? What Decolonization? Hong Kong’s Political Transition
7 Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong
Part IV Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialism
8 The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan
9 Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan
Part V Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality
10 Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism
11 Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies
12 Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization
References
Contributors
Index

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