Undertakes a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges the discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese with those of China and the Chinese diaspora.

Cutting across geographical boundaries, the author undertakes a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges current discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese with those of mainland China and the Chinese diaspora.

PART I: THE DEBATE - The 'Right' to Copy and the 'Copyright': Questions of Authenticity, Hybridity, and Dis/claiming Chineseness - PART II: THE ISSUES - Negotiating China's Cultural Authority: Technology of Genealogy and Wang Anyi's Reality and Fiction - Whither Taiwan?: Refashioning Cultural Authenticity and Zhu Tianxin's Ancient Captial - Hong Kong Androgynous: Embodying Cultural Hybridity and Dung Kai-cheung's Dual Body - Chinese American? American Chinese?: Community Building as Subject Making in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster
Monkey - PART III: THE VISION - Chinese Diaspora and Transnationality: Envisioning Global Citizen/ship and Gao Xinjian's One Man's Bible - Globalizing the Self: Cultural Identity and the Aesthetics of Hybridity in Zhu - Tianwen's Notes of a Desolate Man - Coda: Cultural Identity on the Flow of Cultural Globalization - Bibliography