Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness

"While the volume very much starts from a cultural studies perspective, the skill and lucidity with which these scholars address the construction of 'Chineseness' make it valuable reading for anyone concerned with issues of identity. As such, it has a real cross-disciplinary appeal."—Adam Frank, University of Texas at Austin, China Information

"The book represents a collective attempt on the part of the authors to explore the interpretive constraints imposed on artistic and intellectual work once these have been conveniently tagged as "Chinese"....Each of the essays responds to the question of what marks a work as identifiably Chinese and then unpacks this form of "Chineseness" as a network of meanings and values that circulate within popular and scholarly discourses. The ingenuity of the volume, for which the editor should be congratulated, lies in its organization of the six essays into three pairs of critical responses to three separate "objects" of study, thus providing an effective dialogue on each of these between the paired authors."—Gloria Davies, Monash University, The China Journal