Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific
Shu-mei Shih
Abstract
This book inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, it examines the production and circulation of images across what it terms the “Sinophone Pacific,” which comprises Sinitic-language speaking communities such as the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America. This text argues that the di ... More
Keywords: Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, global capitalism, identities, Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan, Chinese America, Hong Kong, language cultures, ethnicity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520224513 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520224513.001.0001 |
