Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. China Rising: A View and Review of China’s Diasporas since the 1980s 1
6. No Longer Chinese? Residual Chineseness after the Rise of China 17
7. Twenty-Three Years in Migration, 1989-2012: A Writer’s View and Review 32
8. Globe-Trotting Chinese Masculinity: Wealthy, Worldly, and Worthy 47
9. Textual and Other Oxymorons: Sino-Anglophone Writing of War and Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace 67
10. The Autoethnographic Impulse: Two New Zealand Chinese Playwrights 80
11. The Provocation of Dim Sum; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film 100
12. Performing Bodies, Translated Histories: Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Transnational Cinema, and Chinese Diasporas 111
13. Dancing in the Diaspora: “Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism” and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association 126
14. Tyranny of Taste: Chinese Aesthetics in Australia and on the World Stage 149
15. Reconfiguring the Chinese Diaspora through the Eyes of Ethnic Minorities 170
16. Notes 187
17. Bibliography 210
18. List of Contributors 220
19. Index 224
20. Contemporary Chinese Studies 238