Diasporic Histories

<span>Chinese migrant communities have reinvented their histories in many contexts but the process of globalization has accelerated and diversified this phenomenon. Their fluid identities innovative modernities and generative talents in overcoming prejudice and multiple dislocations offer powerful examples of creative resistance to placebound traditions and nationalist histories. As the velocity of exchange in global media and commerce steadily increases emergent and dynamic diasporas are increasingly influential in transnational discourses.</span><br><br><span>This volume engages cultural representations of the subjectivities and loyalties of Chinese migrant communities including analyses of aesthetic texts as well as theoretical approaches in cultural studies. The book situates diasporic agency as an historical phenomenon with far-reaching political and social implications for both home and host societies and as a major site of contemporary cultural developments. By assembling a variety of regional temporal and disciplinary perspectives it interrogates current notions of the diasporic subject raising questions about respective ideological roots and cultural repositories as well as extensions and transgressions of new aesthetic vocabularies.</span><br><br><span>Contributors include Roland Altenburger Pheng Cheah Prasenjit Duara Kathrin Ensinger Ping-kwan Leung Helen F. Siu Tamara S. Wagner Mary Shuk-han Wong Sau-ling C. Wong and Nicolas Zufferey.</span>