Ungrounded Empires The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism [Paperback]

In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new flexible capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empiresmaps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on overseas Chinese and their unique location in the global arena.Aihwa Ongis an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Noniniis an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.