The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity

Contents

1 Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction: The Chinese Exotic 1 I: Fold 25 1 Folding Chinese Boxes: Sensing the Chinese Exotic 27 II: Cross Over 67 2 Spies, Vamps and Women Warriors: Translating 69 the Exotic into the Technics of Chinese Femininity III: Ornament 111 3 Ethnic Supplementarity and the Ornamental Text: 113 Asian American and Asian Australian Diasporic Literary Production IV: Region 149 4 From the Chinese Exotic to the Asian Exotic: 151 Critical Regionalism and Pop Culture Asianism vi Contents Conclusion: Heliotropic Manoeuvres 169 Notes 173 Filmography 197 Bibliography 199 Index 215 ...