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

[from Shu-Mei Shi’s Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific, download chapter 1 in pdf format]