Table of Contents

Introduction: the beauty of being accurate 1. Producing and reconstructing knowledge on China in Singapore: perspectives from the academics and mass media 2. Rewriting Singapore and rewriting Chineseness: Lee Guan Kin’s diasporic stance 3. Between a subject and an object: representation of China in Kuo Pao-kun’s Singapore and Denny Yung’s Hong Kong 4. Intellectual paths of Thailand’s first generation China scholars: a research note on encountering and choices of Khien Theeravit and Sarasin Viraphol 5. Looking beyond ethnicity: the negotiation of Chinese Muslim identity in Penang, Malaysia 6. Patrolling Chineseness: Singapore’s Kowloon Club and the ethnic adaptation of Hong Kongese to Singaporean society

About the Author

Chih-yu Shih is National Chair Professor, teaching anthropology of knowledge, civilizational studies, and international relations, at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Asian Ethnicity. His current research focuses on comparative epistemology of China studies/Chinese studies and international relations theory.