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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Shumei Shi |
| ISBN: | 9780520224513 0520224515 9780520249448 0520249445 |
| OCLC Number: | 76074207 |
| Notes: | "Philip E. Lilienthal book"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | xiii, 243 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Visuality in Global Capitalism ; Identity in Global Capitalism ; Sinophone Articulations -- Globalization and Minoritization. The Limits of a Coup d'état in Theory ; Flexibility and Nodal Points ; Flexibility and Translatability -- A Feminist Transnationality. Identity Fragment 1: Feminist Antagonism against Chinese Patriarchy ; Identity Fragment 2: Liberal Antagonist against the Maoist State ; Identity fragment 3: Antagonism of a Minority Subject ; Identity Fragment 4: Antagonism against the Western Gaze -- The Geopolitics of Desire. Beleaguered Communities ; Sexualizing the "Mainland Sister" ; Feminizing the "Mainland Cousin" ; Gender and Public Sphere -- The Incredible Heaviness of Ambiguity. A Short History of the "Mainland" ; "Eternal China" in the 1990s ; The "Intimate Enemy" in the Twenty-first Century ; Struggles of the Sinophone -- After National Allegory. The Allegorical Time and the City-cum-Nation ; The Allegorical and the Mundane ; Refashioning Hongkongness -- Cosmopolitanism among Empires. The Age of Empires and, Especially, Their Sizes ; Cosmopolitanism, Multiplicity, Danger ; Untranslatable Ethics ; Can Cosmopolitanism Be Ethical? -- Conclusion: The Time and Place of the Sinophone. |
| Series Title: | Asia Pacific modern. |
| Responsibility: | Shu-mei Shih. |
Abstract:
Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, the author examines the production and circulation of images across what she terms the "Sinophone
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