Contesting Chineseness

Chang-Yau Hoon is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Advanced Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is also Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. At Singapore Management University, where he worked as Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2016, he won the SMU Teaching Excellence Award and SMU Research Excellence Award. Dr Hoon specializes on identity politics, diversity and inclusion, multiculturalism, and the Chinese diaspora in contemporary Southeast Asia. Ying-kit Chan is a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. He received his PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and BA and MA in Chinese Studies from the National University of Singapore. He serves on the editorial board of the Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies and is the editorial assistant of Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China.

• 1.Chineseness in Motion: The Historicity of Nation and Contingency of Ethnicity.- Part One: Historicizing the Construction of Chineseness.- 2.Demonstrating the Chineseness in the Forbidden City: From the Qing Court to the People’s Republic.- 3.The Embodiments of Chinese Identity: An Investigation of “Ancestral Sacrifices” to the Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor.- 4.Negotiating Chineseness in the post-WW2 context of Singapore (1955-1965).5.- Academic Diplomacy, the Convergence of Sino-Thai Intellectual Nationalisms and the Chinese of Thailand.- 6.Workers as Human Power: Late-Qing Intellectual Discourse of Chineseness in the Stories of Chinese Labor in Latin America.- Part Two: Chineseness as a Social Construct.- 7.Rethinking the Position of Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia.- 8.“We are Southeast Asian Chinese”: The notion of ‘Chineseness’ among Chinese Bruneians.- 9.Continuity and Change: The Dynamics of Chineseness in Indonesia.- 10.Straightly Chinese: Censorship and Systemic Homophobia in Contemporary China.- Part Three: Constructing Chineseness in Popular Culture.- 11.Negotiating Chineseness through English dialects in Crazy Rich Asians.- 12.Language, identities and resistance: comparing two ethnic Chinese rappers from Malaysia and Singapore.- 13.Xinyao Talentimes: Television Sinophone Mediascapes and the making of Chinese-Singaporean identities in the 1980s.- 14.Becoming a Nanyang Style Artist in Postwar Singapore and Malaya: Georgette Chen’s Drawing and Her Construction of Asian Themes.- 15. Constructing and Interpreting Chineseness in Shaonu Manhua: An Ethnographic Study of the Production and the Consumption of Chinese Girls’ Comics.