Visuality and Identity - Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi About Romanization xiii Introduction 1(7) Visuality in Global Capitalism 8(8) Identity in Global Capitalism 16(7) Sinophone Articulations 23(17) Globalization and Minoritization 40(22) The Limits of a Coup d'Etat in Theory 42(5) Flexibility and Nodal Points 47(12) Flexibility and Translatability 59(3) A Feminist Transnationality 62(24) Identity Fragment 1: Feminist Antagonism against Chinese Patriarchy 67(4) Identity Fragment 2: Liberal Antagonism against the Maoist State 71(6) Identity fragment 3: Antagonism of a Minority Subject 77(2) Identity Fragment 4: Antagonism against the Western Gaze 79(7) The Geopolitics of Desire 86(31) Beleaguered Communities 90(4) Sexualizing the ``Mainland Sister'' 94(9) Feminizing the ``Mainland Cousin'' 103(11) Gender and Public Sphere 114(3) The Incredible Heaviness of Ambiguity 117(23) A Short History of the ``Mainland'' 124(5) ``Eternal China'' in the 1990s 129(6) The ``Intimate Enemy'' in the Twenty-First Century 135(2) Struggles of the Sinophone 137(3) After National Allegory 140(25) The Allegorical Time and the City-cum-Nation 144(6) The Allegorical and the Mundane 150(7) Refashioning Hongkongness 157(8) Cosmopolitanism among Empires 165(18) The Age of Empires and, Especially, Their Sizes 166(4) Cosmopolitanism, Multiplicity, Danger 170(5) Untranslatable Ethics 175(5) Can Cosmopolitanism Be Ethical? 180(3) Conclusion.: The Time and Place of the Sinophone 183(10) Notes 193(26) Selected Bibliography 219(12) Index 231