Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere Cheah Pheng
The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere--the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by…
Specifikacia Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere Cheah Pheng
The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere--the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center/periphery, colonizer/colonized, and developed/developing. Among other topics, they examine socialist China's attempts to break with Soviet cultural hegemony, the postcoloniality of Taiwan as it negotiates the legacy of Japanese colonial rule, Southeast Asian and South Asian diasporic experiences of colonialism, and Hong Kong's complex colonial experiences under the British, the Japanese, and mainland China. The contributors show how postcolonial