Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere

Series Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory / Pheng Cheah  1
Part I. Framing the Postcolonial
1. Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality / Robert J. C. Young  33
2. On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism / Dai Jinhua, translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel  53
Part II. Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality
3. Who Owns Social Justice? Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial / Wendy Larson  71
4. De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People's Republic of China's Alternative Modernity Project / Pang Laikwan  90
Part III. Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires
5. From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences / Lo Kwai-Cheung  109
6. Decolonization? What Decolonization? Hong Kong's Political Transition / Lui Tai-lok  127
7. Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho  148
Part IV. Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialisms
8. The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan / Lin Pei-yin  171
9. Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan / Liao Ping-hui  191
Part V. Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality
10. Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism / David Der-wei Wang  213
11. Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies / Caroline S. Hau  232
12. Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization / Pheng Cheah  250
References  277
Contributors  313
Index  315