Table Of Contents:
Introduction Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity 3(34)

Donald M. Nonini

Aihwa Ong
Part 1 Transiting to Modernity: The Wildness and Power of Early Chinese Transnationalism 37(52)
Preface 37(2)

1 Nationalists Among Transnationals: Overseas Chinese and the Idea of China, 1900-1911 39(22)

Prasenjit Duara

2 Boundaries and Transgressions: Chinese Enterprise in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia 61(28)

Carl A. Trocki
Part 2 Family, Guanxi, and Space: Discourses and Practices in the Age of Flexibility 89(78)
Preface 89(2)

3 Space, Mobility, and Flexibility: Chinese Villagers and Scholars Negotiate Power at Home and Abroad 91(24)

Xin Liu

4 Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism: Different Cultural Logics in Labor Control 115(28)

Ching Kwan Lee

5 Building Guanxi Across the Straits: Taiwanese Capital and Local Chinese Bureaucrats 143(24)

You-tien Hsing
Part 3 Transnational Identities and Nation-State Regimes of Truth and Power 167(92)
Preface 167(4)

6 Chinese Modernities: Narratives of Nation and of Capitalism 171(32)

Aihwa Ong

7 Shifting Identities, Positioned Imaginaries: Transnational Traversals and Reversals by Malaysian Chinese 203(25)

Donald M. Nonini

8 Transnational Subjects: Constituting the Cultural Citizen in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital 228(31)

Katharyne Mitchell
Part 4 The Self-Making and Being-Made of Transnational Subjectivities 259(64)
Preface 259(2)

9 The Thoroughly Modern "Asian": Capital, Culture, and Nation in Thailand and the Philippines 261(26)

Cristina Szanton Blanc

10 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis 287(36)

Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Afterword Toward a Cultural Politics of Diaspora and Transnationalism 323(10)

Aihwa Ong

Donald M. Nonini
Notes on Contributors 333(4)
Index 337