China Inside Out Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism - Softcover

Pal Nyiri (Editor); Joana Breidenbach (Editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9637326146 ISBN 13: 9789637326141

Publisher: Central European University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. In the case of China, this book shows the diverse array of critical but solidly grounded research approaches that can be used in studying a society. Its approach neither trivializes nor dismisses the elusive effects of culture, and it pays attention to both the state and the multiplicity of voices that challenge it.

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About the Author:

ABOUT THE EDITORS Pal Nyiri is currently a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is co-author of Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (Stanford University Press, 2004) and co-editor of Globalising Chinese Migration (Ashgate, 2002). Joana Breidenbach is an anthropologist and journalist based in Berlin. She is co-author of Tanz der Kulturen (Rowohlt, 2000) and a regular contributor to major German periodicals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9637326146
• ISBN 13: 9789637326141
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Pal Nyiri, Joana Breidenbach