The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sino-sphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history.

Series Editor’s Preface / Carlos Rojas  vii Acknowledgments  xi Introduction: Situations and Limits of Postcolonial Theory / Pheng Cheah  1 Part I. Framing the Postcolonial 1. Mythmaking: The Nomos of Postcoloniality / Robert J. C. Young  33 2. On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism / Dai Jinhua, translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel  53 Part II. Chinese Socialist Postcoloniality 3. Who Owns Social Justice? Permanent Revolution, the Chinese Gorky, and the Postcolonial / Wendy Larson  71 4. De-Sovietization and Internationalism: The People’s Republic of China’s Alternative Modernity Project / Pang Laikwan  90 Part III. Hong Kong Postcoloniality among the British, Japanese, and Chinese Empires 5. From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences / Lo Kwai-Cheung  109 6. Decolonization? What Decolonization? Hong Kong’s Political Transition / Lui Tai-lok  127 7. Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong / Elaine Yee Lin Ho  148 Part IV. Taiwan Postcoloniality between Japanese and Chinese Colonialisms 8. The Slippage between Empires: The Production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan / Lin Pei-yin  171 9. Questions of Postcolonial Agency: Two Film Examples from Taiwan / Liao Ping-hui  191 Part V. Diasporas in East and Southeast Asian Postcoloniality 10. Sinophone Geopoetics: From Postcolonialism to Postloyalism / David Der-wei Wang  213 11. Multiple Colonialisms and Their Philippine Legacies / Caroline S. Hau  232 12. Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization / Pheng Cheah  250 References  277 Contributors  313 Index  315

“Collectively refuting the postcolonial as a break from formal colonialism, this volume highlights the shortcomings of postcolonial theory as practiced in a Euro-American context by attending to the specific conditions of Sino East Asia. By charting the usefulness of the postcolonial in various colonial legacies of the Sinosphere, Siting Postcoloniality makes an important contribution to Asian studies and postcolonial studies more broadly. No other book on the topic brings as much theoretical rigor as this volume.”