Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism

By Aihwa Ong, Donald M. Nonini, Nonini Donald

Book Overview

In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on "overseas Chinese" and their unique location in the global arena.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415915430
• ISBN13: 9780415915434
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"