Kuan-Hsing Chen

Asia as Method

Toward Deimperialization

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Produktbeschreibung

Cultural theorist rethinks the aftermath of imperialism and colonialism through Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346647
• ISBN-10: 0822346648
• Artikelnr.: 29927648

Autorenporträt

Kuan-Hsing Chen is a professor in the Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies at Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He has written and edited many books in Chinese. He is co-executive editor of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vi
Introduction: Globalization and Deimperialization 1
1. The Imperialist Eye: The Discourse of the Southward Advance and the
Subimperial Imaginary 17
2. Decolonization: A Geocolonial Historical Materialism 65
3. De-Cold War: The Im/possibility of "Great Reconciliation" 115
4. Deimperialization: Club 51 and the Imperialist Assumption of Democracy
161
5. Asia as Method: Overcoming the Present Conditions of Knowledge
Production 211
Epilogue: The Imperial Order of Things, or Notes on Han Chinese Racism 257
Notes 269
Special Terms 287
Bibligraphy 291
Index 305