Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.
Issued also in electronic format.
Machine generated contents note: 1. China Rising: A View and Review of China's Diasporas since the 1980s / David M. Pomfret -- 2. No Longer Chinese? Residual Chineseness after the Rise of China / Ien Ang -- 3. Twenty-Three Years in Migration, 1989-2012: A Writer's View and Review / Ouyang Yu -- 4. Globe-Trotting Chinese Masculinity: Wealthy, Worldly, and Worthy / Kam Louie -- 5. Textual and Other Oxymorons: Sino-Anglophone Writing of War and Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston's Fifth Book of Peace / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- 6. The Autoethnographic Impulse: Two New Zealand Chinese Playwrights / Hilary Chung -- 7. The Provocation of Dim Sum; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film / Rey Chow -- 8. Performing Bodies, Translated Histories: Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, Transnational Cinema, and Chinese Diasporas / Cristina Demaria -- 9. Dancing in the Diaspora: "Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism" and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco's Chinese Folk Dance Association / Sau-ling C. Wong -- 10. Tyranny of Taste: Chinese Aesthetics in Australia and on the World Stage / Yiyan Wang -- 11. Reconfiguring the Chinese Diaspora through the Eyes of Ethnic Minorities / Kwai-Cheung Lo