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Re-producing Chineseness in Southeast Asia: Scholarship and Identity in Comparative Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Re-producing Chineseness in Southeast Asia Scholarship and Identity in Comparative Perspectives

Edited By Chih-yu Shih Copyright 2016
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge
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Identity politics can impede Chinese identification in southeast Asia because the migrant population, particularly the intellectual aspect of that population, have to consider the political effects of their intellectual and social activities on the survival of Chinese communities. Similarly, these communities have to deal with the necessity of nation-building in the aftermath of the Second World... Read more

Introduction: the beauty of being accurate Chih-Yu Shih

1. Producing and reconstructing knowledge on China in Singapore: perspectives from the academics and mass media Sin Kiong Wong, Ruixin Wang, Zhuo Wang and Shihlun Allen Chen

2. Rewriting Singapore and rewriting Chineseness: Lee Guan Kin’s diasporic stance Pi-Chun Chang

3. Between a subject and an object: representation of China in Kuo Pao-kun’s Singapore and Denny Yung’s Hong Kong Chih-yu Shih and Celine Yi-Chin Lee

4. Intellectual paths of Thailand’s first generation China scholars: a research note on encountering and choices of Khien Theeravit and Sarasin Viraphol Prapin Manomaivibool

5. Looking beyond ethnicity: the negotiation of Chinese Muslim identity in Penang, Malaysia Pei-Chien Wu

6. Patrolling Chineseness: Singapore’s Kowloon Club and the ethnic adaptation of Hong Kongese to Singaporean society Jean Michel Montsion

Biography

Chih-yu Shih is National Chair Professor, teaching anthropology of knowledge, civilizational studies, and international relations, at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Asian Ethnicity. His current research focuses on comparative epistemology of China studies/Chinese studies and international relations theory.

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