Forget Chineseness: On The Geopolitics Of Cultural Identification (suny Series In Global Modernity)
by Allen Chun /
2017 / English / PDF
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Forget Chineseness
Forget Chineseness provides a critical interpretation of not
only discourses of Chinese identity--Chineseness--but also of how
they have reflected differences between "Chinese" societies, such
as in Hong Kong, Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Singapore, and
communities overseas. Allen Chun asserts that while identity does
have meaning in cultural, representational terms, it is more
importantly a product of its embeddedness in specific entanglements
of modernity, colonialism, nation-state formation, and
globalization. By articulating these processes underlying
institutional practices in relation to public mindsets, it is
possible to explain various epistemic moments that form the basis
for their sociopolitical transformation. From a broader
perspective, this should have salient ramifications for prevailing
discussions of identity politics. The concept of identity has not
only been predicated on flawed notions of ethnicity and culture in
the social sciences but it has also been acutely exacerbated by
polarizing assumptions that drive our understanding of identity
politics.
provides a critical interpretation of not
only discourses of Chinese identity--Chineseness--but also of how
they have reflected differences between "Chinese" societies, such
as in Hong Kong, Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Singapore, and
communities overseas. Allen Chun asserts that while identity does
have meaning in cultural, representational terms, it is more
importantly a product of its embeddedness in specific entanglements
of modernity, colonialism, nation-state formation, and
globalization. By articulating these processes underlying
institutional practices in relation to public mindsets, it is
possible to explain various epistemic moments that form the basis
for their sociopolitical transformation. From a broader
perspective, this should have salient ramifications for prevailing
discussions of identity politics. The concept of identity has not
only been predicated on flawed notions of ethnicity and culture in
the social sciences but it has also been acutely exacerbated by
polarizing assumptions that drive our understanding of identity
politics.
