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On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

Paperback • 2001 • English

On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

By Ien Ang

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About the book

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself "faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty" - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She writes: "It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engageme...Show more

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9780415259132

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

Format

Paperback

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