ABSTRACT
Modern Chinese transnationalism, arising in the context of European colonialism in coastal China, Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands, and the west coast of North America, is now inseparable from the networks, strategies, and cultural politics of global capitalism. As a distinctive postcolonial social formation, modern Chinese transnationalism is expanding ever more rapidly across the Asia Pacific and indeed launching the capitalist development of China itself. Taken collectively, the essays in this book challenge models of the world system, diaspora, transnationalism, and identity heretofore drawn almost exclusively from Western experiences. In this afterword, we mention briefly the implications of modern Chinese transnationalism for our thinking about the relations between capitalism and the nation-state, globalization and ethnicity, class and identity, and ethics and politics.
