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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Significance: Binaries, Genders, and Colonialism
• Background: China and Chinese in Postcolonial Feminist Perspectives
• Theme: Self-Orientalism and Self-Feminization as a Practice of Globalization
• Topics: Leaders, Citizens, Professionals, and Their Strategic Femininity
• Methodology and Caveats
• 1. Becoming China: Feminine Sovereignty in the Beginning of Modern Time
• Sovereignty as Gendered Relation
• Pre-sovereign China: Territory Unbounded, Indefensible, and Reimagined
• Chinas Way to the Sovereign World: A Failing Attempt to Rival
• Chinese Sovereignty during World War II: Clutching Alliance, Practicing Exclusion
• Sovereign China as an "Other" for the United States: To Care or Not to Care
• Feminine Sovereignty and Masculine Sovereignty
• Conclusion
• 2. Eros of Foreign Policy: Madame Chiang Kai-shek during World War II
• Prelude
• Madame Chiang in the United States
• Who Is Madame Chiang?
• On the Stage
• Personal Characteristics
• What Did She Say?

• Symbol of Common Cause
• Europe versus Asia
• Reactions of the Congressmen
• Success?
• 3. Exotic City: A Relational Theory of Gender as Social Site
• More than Seduction
• Expanding the Horizon of Critical International Relations
• Ambivalence between Seduction and Modernity
• Cheongsam and the Identity of Shanghai
• Cheongsam as a Practice of Shanghai
• Self-Romanticizing in International Relations Theory
• Unassertive but Self-Content Way
• 4. Navigating Globalization: Femininity, In-betweenness, and Emancipation
• Approaching the Binary through Professional Femininity
• Practicing Self-Feminizing by Taiwanese Financial Controllers
• Professional Women in Postcolonial Taiwan
• Self-Feminizing as Relating to Both Sides
• Feelings for the Business
• Illustration: International Relations of Taiwan
• Emancipation: How Plausible?.

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Author/Creator:

Shi, Zhiyu, 1958- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Eros of international relations: self-feminizing and the claiming of postcolonial Chineseness [by Shi, Z.]

Subjects:

China — Foreign relations — 1949-

Chinese — Ethnic identity

Postcolonialism — East Asia

Femininity

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DS779.27 .S55 2022eb

ISBNs:

9789888754786 (electronic bk.)
9888754785 (electronic bk.)
9789888754045 [Invalid]
9888754041 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1333972486

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6963999 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17835416