Overview
In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps 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.
- | Author: Aihwa Ong
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Dec 10, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0415915430
- | ISBN-13: 9780415915434
