Chineseness unbound

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Notes

¹The authors of this special issue wish to thank Deborah Chua for much editorial help, Allen Chun for his initial stimulus and critical thrust, and the Asia Research Institute of NUS more generally for having supported the conference at which the ideas were explored.

²Ien Ang, On Not Speaking Chinese, 40.

³Tu Wei-ming, ‘Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center’, in The Living Tree, 27.

⁴Ibid., 33–4.

⁵ Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas, ed. Lynn Pan.

⁶Liu Hong calculated there were about 100 global conventions of Chinese associations between 1980 and 1998 – cited Barabantseva, ‘Transnationalising Chineseness’, 20.

⁷E.g. Andrea Louie, Chineseness across Borders; Wen-hsin Yeh, Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness; Aijun Zhu, Feminism and Global Chineseness.

⁸Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationalism; Aihwa Ong and Donald Nonini (eds.), Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism.

⁹Elena Barabantseva, ‘Trans-nationalising Chineseness: Overseas Chinese Policies of the PRC's Central Government’, 9–12.

¹⁰Ibid., 27.

¹¹Anbin Shi, ‘Mediating Chinese-ness: Identity Politics and Media Culture in Contemporary China’, 205–7.