ABSTRACT
These imaginaries-of the nation-state, of Greater China, and of Asian values-are produced from different sites, and they are in varying degrees of tension with each other; they also ultimately have points of application “at home.” How do claims of the Asian way and a moral unity against the West engage the interests of subordinate groups in their own countries? In what ways do they set the terms of thinking and talking about Asian capitalism and cultural difference? How do regimes of truth “stitch together” the disjunctures between market logics, individual interests, and the biopolitical needs of the state (Hall 1988, 53)?
