Siting Postcoloniality

Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric and Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature, also published by Duke University Press.Caroline S. Hau is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University and author of The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines.

• Series Editor’s Preface / Carlos Rojas  viiAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory / Pheng Cheah  1Part I. Framing the Postcolonial1. Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality / Robert J. C. Young  332. On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism / Dai Jinhua, translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel  53Part II. Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality3. Who Owns Social Justice? Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial / Wendy Larson  714. De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People’s Republic of China’s Alternative Modernity Project / Pang Laikwan  90Part III. Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires5. From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences / Lo Kwai-Cheung  1096. Decolonization? What Decolonization? Hong Kong’s Political Transition / Lui Tai-lok  1277. Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho  148Part IV. Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialisms8. The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan / Lin Pei-yin  1719. Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan / Liao Ping-hui  191Part V. Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality10. Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism / David Der-wei Wang  21311. Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies / Caroline S. Hau  23212. Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization / Pheng Cheah  250References  277Contributors  313Index  315

"Siting Postcoloniality should be most appreciated for its vanguard effort to nuance and update postcolonial theory by unpacking the illuminating relevance of the Sinosphere experiences. Correcting the field’s long-standing geographical bias against Sinitic-influenced regions, the volume brims with insights on fluid subjectivities rooted in the dialectics of coloniality and temporality."- Chan Cheow Thia (Southeast Asian Studies) "Overall, this is a strong volume that both augments existing discourses and suggests new possibilities for postcolonial studies across a portion of the Sinosphere. . . . [T]he clarity and quality of writing is, on the whole, excellent, and chapters are either accessible as introductory pieces to specific topics or make clear and compelling intellectual contributions to their relevant fields." - Kyle Shernuk (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture) "Peng Cheah and Caroline Hau, together with the other contributors, have successfully worked towards remedying a grave problem within the field of postcolonialism, and they justly point out that East and Southeast Asia have an important and rightful place within this academic field . . . it is an important vantage point for further study, and invaluable to anyone interested in postcolonialism and/or East and Southeast Asia." - Tijs Hopman (IIAS Review)