The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization

by Sean Metzger

Book Overview

In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production. Moving across film, painting, performance, and installation art, Metzger traces flows of money, culture, and aesthetics to reveal the ways in which routes of commerce stretching back to the Dutch Golden Age have molded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025304751X
• ISBN13: 9780253047519
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher