Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : On Chineseness as a theoretical problem / Rey Chow -- Narrative subjectivity and the production of social space in Chinese reportage / Charles A. Laughlin -- Three hungry women / David Der-wei Wang -- Two discourses on colonialism : Huang Guliu and Eileen Chang on Hong Kong of the forties / Leung Ping-kwan -- Beyond cultural and national identities : current re-evaluation of the Kominka literature from Taiwan's Japanese period / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang -- Wang Wenxing and the "loss" of China / Christopher Lupke -- If China can say no, can China make movies? Or, do movies make China? Rethinking national cinema and national agency / Chris Berry -- Look who's talking : the politics of orality in transitional Hong Kong mass culture / Kwai-Cheung Lo -- Bondage in time : footbinding and fashion theory / Dorothy Ko -- No questions, no answers : China and A book from the sky / Stanley K. Abe -- International theory and the transnational critic : China in the age of multiculturalism / Michelle Yeh -- Can one say no to Chineseness? Pushing the limits of the diasporic paradigm / Ien Ang -- Afterword : The possibilities of abandonment / Paul A. Bov�e.

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