ABSTRACT
The essays in this book seek to identify for a range of sites the precursors and contemporary forms of a distinctively modern Chinese transnationalism, and the instrumentalities and identifications that constitute it. While the authors take different approaches, we share a fruitful mix of ethnographic theory, political economy, Foucauldian analytics, and cultural studies. Ultimately, in looking at Chinese transnationalism, we are concerned with specific processes by which diaspora Chinese are subjectified: the dimensions of self-making, and of being made for persons who are subjects within the multiple and mobile domains of late capitalism.
