Table of Contents

SOCIETY; 2. Hokkien-Philippines Familial Transnationalism, 1949-1975; Edgar Wickberg; 3. On Eating Chinese: Diasporic Agency and the Chinese Canadian Restaurant Menu; Lily Cho; 4. Putting the Nation Back into the Transnational: Chinese Self-Fashioning and Discipline in Singapore; Philip Holden.

Promotional Information

Reading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultural studies by examining Chinese transnationalism from a variety of perspectives. In interrogating social practices and literary and filmic texts which frequently cross national borders in imagining Chineseness, the collection's contributors also challenge received notions of Chinese transnationalism, opening up new perspectives on the topic.

About the Author

Maria N. Ng is an associate professor in English Literature at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. Philip Holden is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore.