On Not Speaking Chinese

On Not Speaking Chinese Ien Ang Additional Author mixed material bibliography Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2001 monographic 240 Leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalization and diaspora. Ang reflects upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and considers the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbors, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society. Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of `Asia' and `the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the `in-between', arguing for a theorizing not of `difference' but of `togetherness' in contemporary societies. Chinese - Ethnic identity 415259126 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 305.8951 ANG Onn 3763 C2O library & collabtive (Philosophy & Psychology) 3657 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated