As China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. For members of China's diasporic community, the rise of China created ripples of change, influencing communities, culture, and communication, and even challenging the very concept of diaspora. Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China examines how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora responded to China's ascendancy by representing it to global audiences with a new-found vitality and self-assurance. The chapters, often personal in nature, cover locations as varied as Australia, North America, and Tibet. And yet, the focus of each is the nexus between the political and economic rise of China and the cultural products this period produced, a place where new ideas of nation, identity, and diaspora were forged.

Leading scholars analyze the vibrant and remarkable work of Chinese diasporic writers and artists during China's meteoric rise to global superpower.

About the Author

Julia Kuehn is an associate professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Kam Louie is the dean of the Faculty of Arts and M.B. Lee Professor in the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. David M. Pomfret is an associate professor of history at the University of Hong Kong.

Contributors: Ien Ang, Rey Chow, Hilary Chung, Cristina Demaria, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Kwai-Cheung Lo, Yiyan Wang, Sau-ling C. Wong, Ouyang Yu

Book Information
ISBN 9780774825924
Author Julia Kuehn
Format Paperback
Page Count 252
Imprint University of British Columbia Press
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
Weight(grams) 370g