Post-Chinese, Post-Western and Post-Asian Relations: Engaging a Pluriversal East Asia

Chih-yu Shih
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Chih-yu Shih: Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University.

China Report, 2021, vol. 57, issue 3, 270-288

Abstract: Arguing that studies of China must simultaneously be studies of East Asia, this article offers a philosophically critical reflection on the meaning of Chineseness in lieu of the theme of the special issue—East Asia. The two regions are reciprocally holographical of each other. The latter part of the article will further propose a research agenda of post-Asianness. I hope to convey a message that is hidden but strong: that East Asia is a redundant agenda and yet fungible at the same time. This ontological irony can be likewise applied to both Chineseness and Asianness. Ultimately, China, East Asia and Asia are mainly strategic agendas and identities. The critical reflections outlined in this article are intended to display, facilitate and complicate the pluriversality of all post-identities.

Keywords: Post-Chineseness; post-Asianness; post-Western international relations; post-identity; relationality; pluriversality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/00094455211023906

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