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Managing Chineseness as Identity Grafting

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This chapter sets the context for an examination of how personal experiences are interlinked with global, regional, and national contexts of capitalist industrialization. Through the concept of identity grafting, policy and social constructions of Chineseness are analyzed for the impact of accelerated development and the emergence of dual hegemonic constructions of East and West within the postcolonial and late-capitalist region. The site located in Singapore, ECI (a pseudonym), is the Asia Pacific subsidiary of a French multinational corporation, with a keen regional commercial interest in China. The triangulation of the three locales provides the comparative thrust of this book.

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Lee, D. (2017). Managing Chineseness as Identity Grafting. In: Managing Chineseness. Frontiers of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58258-4_1

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