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1043974
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b798344
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Shi, Shumei,1961-
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| Title & Author
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Visuality and identity : : Sinophone articulations across the Pacific /\ Shu-mei Shih.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2007.
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| Series Statement
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Asia Pacific modern
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1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations (some color)
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| ISBN
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0520940156
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: 1282772120
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: 1435601963
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: 6612772123
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: 9780520940154
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: 9781282772120
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: 9781435601963
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: 9786612772122
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0520224515
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0520249445
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9780520224513
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9780520249448
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| Notes
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"Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Title page verso.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.
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| Contents
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; About Romanization; Introduction; Visuality in Global Capitalism; Identity in Global Capitalism; Sinophone Articulations; 1. Globalization and Minoritization; The Limits of a Coup d'État in Theory; Flexibility and Nodal Points; Flexibility and Translatability; 2. A Feminist Transnationality; Identity Fragment 1: Feminist Antagonism against Chinese Patriarchy; Identity Fragment 2: Liberal Antagonism against the Maoist State; Identity fragment 3: Antagonism of a Minority Subject; Identity Fragment 4: Antagonism against the Western Gaze.
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| Abstract
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Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, Shih examines the production and circulation of images across what she terms the "Sinophone Pacific," which comprises Sinitic-language speaking communities such as the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America. This groundbreaking wo.
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Chinese-- Ethnic identity.
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National characteristics, Chinese.
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Chinois à l'étranger-- Identité ethnique.
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Chinois-- Identité ethnique.
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Chinois.
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Chinese-- Ethnic identity.
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National characteristics, Chinese.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.895/1
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| LC Classification
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DS730.S5325 2007eb
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