Oriental Sensitivity: Towards a Poetics of Global Studies

Metzger Sean ()
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Metzger Sean: University of California Los Angeles, 90095, Los Angeles, USA

New Global Studies, 2020, vol. 14, issue 3, 287-305

Abstract: This essay elaborates “Oriental sensitivity” as a methodology for studying Chinese cultural flows in locations outside of that nation-state as an index of globalization. The article specifically draws on research that investigates the practice of tai chi on Martinique in dialogue with a larger discourse of Chinese currents in the Atlantic. Oriental sensitivity expands but also specifies Edward Said’s notion of Orientalism in relation to several of his commentators and in relation to the case study by emphasizing the ways in which individual bodies might knowingly and unknowingly structure an Orientalist encounter. The methodology facilitates an analysis of the convergence of ecology, kinship, migrant labor and phenomenology in thinking about how transnational Chinese movements might matter.

Keywords: China; embodiment; Martinique; migration; orientalism; tai chi (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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