Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index.
Bridging the chasm: a survey of U.S. and Chinese multiculturalisms -- How not to be an empire: on conciliatory multiculturalism -- Toward a comparative critique: metaphor and dissenting nationalism in Alex Kuo -- A new politics of faith: Zhang Chengzhi's Xinling shi and Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: the art of war -- Impersonal intimacy: Yan Geling's Fusang and its English translation