List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
About Romanization
Introduction
Visuality in Global Capitalism
Identity in Global Capitalism
Sinophone Articulations
1. Globalization and Minoritization
The Limits of a Coup d’État in Theory
Flexibility and Nodal Points
Flexibility and Translatability
2. A Feminist Transnationality
Identity Fragment 1: Feminist Antagonism against Chinese Patriarchy
Identity Fragment 2: Liberal Antagonism against the Maoist State
Identify Fragment 3: Antagonism of a Minority Subject
Identity Fragment 4: Antagonism against the Western Gaze
3. The Geopolitics of Desire
Beleaguered Communities
Sexualizing the ‘Mainland Sister’
Feminizing the ‘Mainland Cousin’
Gender and Public Sphere
4. The Incredible Heaviness of Ambiguity
A Short History of the ‘Mainland’
‘Eternal China’ in the 1990s
The ‘Intimate Enemy’ in the Twenty-First Century
Struggles of the Sinophone
5. After National Allegory
The Allegorical Time and the City-cum-Nation
The Allegorical and the Mundane
Refashioning Hongkongness
6. Cosmopolitanism among Empires
The Age of Empires and, Especially, Their Sizes
Cosmopolitanism, Multiplicity, Danger
Untranslatable Ethics
Can Cosmopolitanism Be Ethical?
Conclusion: The Time and Place of the Simophone
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Shu-mei Shih is Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (UC Press) and coeditor of Minor Transnationalism.