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CONTENTS

Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: between Asia and the West (in complicated
entanglement) 1

PART I
Beyond Asia: deconstructing diaspora 19

1 On not speaking Chinese: diasporic identifications and
postmodern ethnicity 21
2 Can one say no to Chineseness?: Pushing the limits of
the diasporic paradigm 37

3 Indonesia on my mind: diaspora, the Internet and the
struggle for hybridity 52

4 Undoing diaspora: questioning global Chineseness in the
era of globalization 75

PART II
Beyond the West: negotiating multiculturalism 93

5 Multiculturalism in crisis: the new politics of race and
national identity in Australia 95
With Jon Stratton

6 Asians in Australia: a contradiction in terms? 112
7 Racial/spatial anxiety: ‘Asia’ in the psycho-geography
of Australian whiteness 126
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