Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist

This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors

" . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an exc

DIVExamines the institutions and productions of area studies and explores what it takes to "learn a place."/div