Diasporic Chineseness After the Rise of China
Communities and Cultural Production

Julia Kuehn (Edited by), Kam Louie (Edited by), David M. Pomfret (Edited by)

9780774825924

Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2014

252 pages, 15 b&w photos
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.37 kg

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.

1 China Rising: A View and Review of China's Diasporas since the 1980s / Julia Kuehn, Kam Louie, and David M. Pomfret