Forget Chineseness

Forget Chineseness" provides a critical interpretation of not only discourses of Chinese identity - Chineseness - but also of how they have reflected differences between ?Chinese? societies, such as in Hong Kong, Taiwan, People?s Republic of China, Singapore, and communities overseas. Allen Chun asserts that while identity does have meaning in cultural, representational terms, it is more importantly a product of its embeddedness in specific entanglements of modernity, colonialism, nation-state formation, and globalization. By articulating these processes underlying institutional practices in…