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Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality »

Authors: Aihwa Ong
ISBN-13: 9780822322696, ISBN-10: 0822322692
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Aihwa Ong

Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is author and coeditor of several books, including Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia and Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism.

Book Synopsis

Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of the transnational practices of Chinese elites, showing how they constitute a dispersed Chinese public, but also how they reinforce the strength of capital and the state.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality	1
Pt. 1	Emerging Modernities
1	The Geopolitics of Cultural Knowledge	29
2	A "Momentary Glow of Fraternity"	55
Pt. 2	Regimes and Strategies
3	Fengshui and the Limits to Cultural Accumulation	87
4	The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits	110
Pt. 3	Translocal Publics
5	The Family Romance of Mandarin Capital	139
6	"A Better Tomorrow"?: The Struggle for Global Visibility	158
Pt. 4	Global Futures
7	Saying No to the West: Liberal Reasoning in Asia	185
8	Zones of New Sovereignty	214
	Afterword: An Anthropology of Transnationality	240
	Notes	245
	Bibliography	293
	Index	315