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    On not speaking Chinese : living between Asia and the West / Ien Ang.

    • Title:On not speaking Chinese : living between Asia and the West / Ien Ang.
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    • Author/Creator:Ang, Ien.
    • Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Chinese--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity.
    • Description:x, 230 pages.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0415259126 (hbk. alk. paper)
      0415259134 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Introduction: between Asia and the West (in complicated entanglement)
      Pt. I. Beyond Asia: deconstructing diaspora
      1. On not speaking Chinese: diasporic identifications and postmodern ethnicity
      2. Can one say no to Chineseness?: Pushing the limits of the diasporic paradigm
      3. Indonesia on my mind: diaspora, the Internet and the struggle for hybridity
      4. Undoing diaspora: questioning global Chineseness in the era of globalization
      Pt. II. Beyond the West: negotiating multiculturalism
      5. Multiculturalism in crisis: the new politics of race and national identity in Australia / Jon Stratton
      6. Asians in Australia: a contradiction in terms?
      7. Racial/spatial anxiety: 'Asia' in the psycho-geography of Australian whiteness
      8. curse of the smile: ambivalence and the 'Asian' woman in Australian multiculturalism
      9. Identity blues: rescuing cosmopolitanism in the era of globalization
      Pt. III. Beyond identity: living hybridities
      10. Local/global negotiations: doing cultural studies at the crossroads
      11. I'm a feminist but ...: 'other' women and postnational identities
      12. Conclusion: together-in-difference (the uses and abuses of hybridity).
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