Abstract
Starting with the 2005 Chinese Heritage Centre exhibition `Chinese More or Less' (for which I wrote the storyboard) – specifically with that part of the exhibition that profiles diasporic Chinese exemplars of different ways of combining cosmopolitanism with Chineseness – this paper attempts to respond to questions raised by Anthony Reid, viz: whether my moving from diaspora to Shanghai comes of `Shanghai (re)joining the diasporic sense of Chinese modernity and post-modernity'; whether `the diaspora no longer seems quite so distinctive once China is again an open and cosmopolitan place'; and whether I am still a `Chinese Overseas' when I live in Shanghai.
Notes
1Larkin, Collected Poems, 104.
2Wasserstrom, Global Shanghai 1850-2010.
3Pan, Shanghai Style: Art and Design Between the Wars.
4Zhou Zuoren, Tan long ji, 157–8.
5Pei, First Person Singular & the Museum on the Mountain.
6Cannell, I M Pei: Mandarin of Modernism.
7I. M. Pei, ‘Finding Roots’.
8Ibid.
9Zao and Marquet, Autoportrait, 24.
10I. M. Pei, ‘Finding Roots’.
11‘Ang Lee and James Schamas’, The Guardian.