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Macao - The Formation of a Global City, 2013
Journal for Maritime Research, 2014
Radical History Review, 1997
The function of any ideology in power is to represent the world positively unified. To challenge ... more The function of any ideology in power is to represent the world positively unified. To challenge the regimes of representation that govern a society is to conceive of how a politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it .... Postures of exclusionism and of absolutism therefore unveil themselves to be at best no more than a form of reactive defense and at worst, an obsession with the self as holder of rights and property-or in other words, as owner of the world.-Trinh T. Mirth-ha1 Between media response to the 1995 U.N. Women's Conference and classroom experience, there appears to be an almost complete lack of concern for the terrain of minority women's history in a postrnodern context: once again liberal ideology has universalized sisterhood as if it were an unproblematic global concept rather than a partial solidarity that remains to be forged. This paper interrogates the dominant representation of minority women in intellectual discourse, in the academy, and in the curriculum, while defining the political implications of this representation. In doing so, I hope to foster a more culturally reflexive approach. My basic position in this article is that, in a postmodern world where "authenticity" in culture and ethnicity has ceased to be a viable construct and pluralism does little more than acknowledge the ethnic status quo, it seems right to bring the complexity of postcolonial practice into the classroom as part of the curriculum. Such pedagogical
Late Imperial China, 1997
The American Historical Review, 2005
... I also would like to thank my family: my brother, Ying-fook Man, his wife Jenny, and his chil... more ... I also would like to thank my family: my brother, Ying-fook Man, his wife Jenny, and his children, Peter (and his wife Stella and son Caius), Keilu, Sasha (and his wife Emily and children Nicholas and Lauren), and Emma; and my other siblings Kam ... Herrlee Creel 19701 Imperial ...
Journal of American History, 2012
Macao - The Formation of a Global City, 2013
Journal for Maritime Research, 2014
Radical History Review, 1997
The function of any ideology in power is to represent the world positively unified. To challenge ... more The function of any ideology in power is to represent the world positively unified. To challenge the regimes of representation that govern a society is to conceive of how a politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it .... Postures of exclusionism and of absolutism therefore unveil themselves to be at best no more than a form of reactive defense and at worst, an obsession with the self as holder of rights and property-or in other words, as owner of the world.-Trinh T. Mirth-ha1 Between media response to the 1995 U.N. Women's Conference and classroom experience, there appears to be an almost complete lack of concern for the terrain of minority women's history in a postrnodern context: once again liberal ideology has universalized sisterhood as if it were an unproblematic global concept rather than a partial solidarity that remains to be forged. This paper interrogates the dominant representation of minority women in intellectual discourse, in the academy, and in the curriculum, while defining the political implications of this representation. In doing so, I hope to foster a more culturally reflexive approach. My basic position in this article is that, in a postmodern world where "authenticity" in culture and ethnicity has ceased to be a viable construct and pluralism does little more than acknowledge the ethnic status quo, it seems right to bring the complexity of postcolonial practice into the classroom as part of the curriculum. Such pedagogical
Late Imperial China, 1997
The American Historical Review, 2005
... I also would like to thank my family: my brother, Ying-fook Man, his wife Jenny, and his chil... more ... I also would like to thank my family: my brother, Ying-fook Man, his wife Jenny, and his children, Peter (and his wife Stella and son Caius), Keilu, Sasha (and his wife Emily and children Nicholas and Lauren), and Emma; and my other siblings Kam ... Herrlee Creel 19701 Imperial ...
Journal of American History, 2012