On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

by Ien Ang

Book Overview

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself "faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty" - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She writes: "It was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415259134
• ISBN13: 9780415259132
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"