Ungrounded Empires : The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism

In the last two decades, transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new flexible capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on overseas Chinese and their unique location in the global arena.