Sean Metzger is Professor in the School of Theater, Film and Television at University of California at Los Angeles. He is author of Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race and coeditor of Awkward Stages: Plays about Growing up Gay, Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, and Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures.

• PrologueIntroduction1. Reeling2. Incorporating3. Flowing4. Ebbing5. EddyingEpilogueIndex

Metzger demonstrates that artworks can be vessels that cut pathways through surface representations and move us with the undercurrents of our global networks: art offers us the experience of sensing the world in ways that release us from the script of a totalizing representational system. The Chinese Atlantic contributes to a growing body of scholarship dedicated to exploring the role of aesthetics and cultural production in the totalizing representational system of liberal humanism.- Hadley Howes (ANTIPODE ONLINE)

Sean Metzger is Professor in the School of Theater, Film and Television at University of California at Los Angeles. He is author of Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race and coeditor of Awkward Stages: Plays about Growing up Gay, Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, and Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures.

• PrologueIntroduction1. Reeling2. Incorporating3. Flowing4. Ebbing5. EddyingEpilogueIndex

Metzger demonstrates that artworks can be vessels that cut pathways through surface representations and move us with the undercurrents of our global networks: art offers us the experience of sensing the world in ways that release us from the script of a totalizing representational system. The Chinese Atlantic contributes to a growing body of scholarship dedicated to exploring the role of aesthetics and cultural production in the totalizing representational system of liberal humanism.- Hadley Howes (ANTIPODE ONLINE)

Sean Metzger is Professor in the School of Theater, Film and Television at University of California at Los Angeles. He is author of Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race and coeditor of Awkward Stages: Plays about Growing up Gay, Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, and Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures.

• PrologueIntroduction1. Reeling2. Incorporating3. Flowing4. Ebbing5. EddyingEpilogueIndex

Metzger demonstrates that artworks can be vessels that cut pathways through surface representations and move us with the undercurrents of our global networks: art offers us the experience of sensing the world in ways that release us from the script of a totalizing representational system. The Chinese Atlantic contributes to a growing body of scholarship dedicated to exploring the role of aesthetics and cultural production in the totalizing representational system of liberal humanism.- Hadley Howes (ANTIPODE ONLINE)