Re-Producing Chineseness in Southeast Asia: Scholarship and Identity in Comparative Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138946453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 116 str.

Chih-Yu Shih

Opis

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 War, which required integration rather than the exaggeration of differences. Consequently, restriction on self-understanding as well as self-representation has become more than apparent in Chinese migrant communities in southeast Asia.

With this in mind, identity politics can inspire self-understanding among the migrant communities, as intellectuals rediscover how humanism can enable a claim of Chineseness that can be registered differently and creatively in a variety of national conditions. Migrant communities generally understand the importance of political accuracy, and this being accurate involves subscribing to pragmatism, something which is apparent in the scholarship and creative outputs of these communities. Humanism and pragmatism together are the epistemological parameters of self-representation, whereas civilizational and ethnic studies are their methodological parameters. This book was originally published as a special issue of "Asian Ethnicity. ""

Spis treści

Introduction: the beauty of being accurate  1. Producing and reconstructing knowledge on China in Singapore: perspectives from the academics and mass media  2. Rewriting Singapore and rewriting Chineseness: Lee Guan Kin’s diasporic stance  3. Between a subject and an object: representation of China in Kuo Pao-kun’s Singapore and Denny Yung’s Hong Kong  4. Intellectual paths of Thailand’s first generation China scholars: a research note on encountering and choices of Khien Theeravit and Sarasin Viraphol  5. Looking beyond ethnicity: the negotiation of Chinese Muslim identity in Penang, Malaysia  6. Patrolling Chineseness: Singapore’s Kowloon Club and the ethnic adaptation of Hong Kongese to Singaporean society

O autorze

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.