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  • Tianxia and Its Discontents

    Confucian Political Theology, Coloniality, and the Global Order

    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Across imperial histories and contemporary digital infrastructures, Tianxia and Its Discontents challenges the enduring assumption that the Chinese notion of tianxia—“all under heaven”—offers a benign or alternative vision of world order.It argues instead that Tianxia operates as a colonial dispositif: a mode of power that organises space, hierarchy, and subjectivity while masking domination in ... Read more

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  • Decolonisation in the 21st Century

    Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance and Solidarity

    Edited by Joyce C.H. Liu, Brett Neilson ...
    Series series Interventions
    Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice.Bringing together leading scholars from across disciplines and regions, the book traverses a wide range ... Read more

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  • East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories

    Edited by Viren Murthy, Joyce Liu ...
    Series series Interventions
    In this volume, leading scholars from around the world suggest that radical ideologies have shaped complex historical processes in East Asia by examining how intellectuals and activists interpreted, rethought and criticized Marxism in East Asia. The contributors to this volume ask how we can use Marxism to understand East Asia in a global capitalist world, and where the problems that Marxism ... Read more

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  • European-East Asian Borders in Translation

    Series series Interventions
    European-East Asian Borders is an international, trans-disciplinary volume that breaks new ground in the study of borders and bordering practices in global politics. It explores the insights and limitations of border theory developed primarily in the European context to a range of historical and contemporary border-related issues and phenomena in East Asia.The essays presented here question, ... Read more

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    Toward Deimperialization

    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Read more

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  • Asian Anthropology

    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed ... Read more

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  • Postmodernism and China

    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

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  • The End of the Revolution

    China and the Limits of Modernity

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    The End of the Revolution shatters the myth that China’s recent history has been a miracle of progress. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the intellectual roots of his nation’s social and political problems, arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity. He calls for alternatives to both the present ... Read more

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  • Whither China?

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    Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that event, Chinese intellectuals were forced in the early 1990s to search for new analytical and ... Read more

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  • Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia

    by Chih-Yu Shih ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    This book explores the crisis of cultural identity which has assaulted Asian countries since Western countries began to have a profound impact on Asia in the nineteenth century. Confronted by Western 'civilization' and by 'modernity', Asian countries have been compelled to rethink their identity, and to consider how they should relate to Western 'civilization' and 'modernity'. The result, the ... Read more

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  • Siting Postcoloniality

    Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere

    Edited by Pheng Cheah, Caroline S. Hau ...
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    The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the ... Read more

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  • The Ordinary & The Extraordinary

    An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's movement in Beijing

    by Frank N Pieke ...
    First Published in 1996. This study is the outcome of eight-months' fieldwork in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC), from 8 November 1988 to 17 June 1989. The original purpose of the fieldwork had been to acquire a grass-roots perspective on the dynamics of Chinese state socialist society under the impact of ten years of reform. This was extended to include People's ... Read more

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