Writing Diaspora

REY CHOW, an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was educated in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong and in the United States. She is the author of Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading between West and East.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI. Introduction: Leading QuestionsII. Where Have All the Natives Gone?III. Postmodern AutomatonsIV. Pedagogy, Trust, Chinese Intellectuals in the 1990s: Fragments of a Post-Catastrophic DiscourseV. Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual HegemonyVI. The Politics and Pedagogy of Asian Literatures in American UniversitiesVII. Listening Otherwise, Music Miniaturized: A Different Type of Question about RevolutionVIII. Media, Matter, MigrantsGLOSSARYNOTESWORKS CITEDINDEX

"I believe that Rey Chow has written a powerful set of essays which offer a critical strategy for approaching questions of otherness and other societies by forcing us to constantly reassess our position." Harry Harootunian " ... this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective... Chow's book is an excellent example of its type." Discourse & Society