Table of Contents

List of Maps and Figures

Overview

1. Anthropological Concepts for the Study of Nationalism
Aihwa Ong

2. The Legacy of Empires and Nations in East Asia
Prasenjit Duara

3. Researching Chinese Nationalism: the Foreign Relations Dimension
Daojiong Zha

4. On the Periphery of the “Clash of Civilizations?” Discourse and Geopolitics in Russo-Chinese Relations
Alexander V. Lomanov

5. Approaches to Transnationalism and Diaspora Research: Researching the Hmong Diaspora’s Longing for a Chinese Homeland
Louisa Schein

6. The “New Migrant”: State and Market Constructions of Modernity and Patriotism
Pál Nyíri

7. Race in China
Frank Dikötter

8. Outside In: Sino–Burmese Encounters
Penny Edwards

9. Alterity Motives
Dru C. Gladney

10. The Contemporary Intellectual Context of the China Inside Out Project
George E. Marcus

Contributors
Glossary
Literature
Index of Textboxes
Index

About the Author

Pál Nyíri is currently a lecturer at the Department of the Anthropology Division of SCMP Macquarie University, Australia.


Joana Breidenbach is an anthropologist and journalist based in Berlin.