Chih-yu Shih is National Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education and University Chair Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He is the author and editor of many books, including coeditor of Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Inescapable Agenda of Post-ChinesenessPart I: Decentralizing Chineseness: Relations from the Inside Out 1. Away from China-centrism: Balance of Relationships2. Into the Iron Brotherhood: Relational Epistemology3. Up from Subaltern Identities: Strategic Nonessentialism4. Beyond Fundamentalist Faith: Cultural NationalismPart II: Strategizing Chineseness: Relations from the Outside In 5. Cultural Self Rebalanced: The Vietnamese Practices of Sinology6. Colonial Cleavages: Japanese Legacies in Taiwan's Views on China7. Ethnic Role-Making: China Watchers in the Philippines8. Geopolitical Distancing: Think Tanks in Southern NeighborhoodPart III: Belonging to Chineseness: Relations from the In-between 9. Me Inside and Outside: Performing for Hong Kong and Singapore10. Sticking My Head Out under the Sky: A Presbyterian for Taiwan Independence11. China Watch for No One: Relating Taiwan and China in Hong Kong?12. Post-Western Politics and Mainlandization: Between Colonialism and LiberalismIn Lieu of a Conclusion: Noninternational Relations, NonidentitiesAppendix. Post-Asia and IR Research: A Pervasive AgendaNotesReferencesIndex

"This is a fascinating and unique book, offering deep insight into Chinese culture, history, religion, philosophy, nationalism, politics, and foreign relations." — CHOICE"This book is suggesting an original theoretical framework that deconstructs (not just theoretically but empirically) Chineseness that is often reified in the binary image of China versus the other. It shows the fluidity and multiplicity of Chineseness not only in cultural and discursive realms but in policies and real politics." — Jungmin Seo, Yonsei University