Description: The desire of the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong to exercise democratic self-rule, fully embody their local identities, and become global citizens challenges the big-power politics between China and the United States. Occupying a critical stance on the margins, the local perspectives and international relations of these two cosmopolitan and postcolonial societies challenge both narratives centered on China and those focused on the U.S.-China power struggle. Taking a culture-centered approach to the communicative process of "glocalized resistance" in an era of rising nationalisms, the chapters in this volume address topics ranging from the rhetoric of political leaders and the language games of mass protesters on social media to resistant street performance.
Brief description:
Hsin-I Cheng is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University. Cheng's work appears in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Communication, Western Journal of Communication, and Women & Language. Her first book, Culturing Interface: Identity, Communication, and Chinese Transnationalism, received the 2009 Outstanding Book Award from National Communication Association's (NCA) International and Intercultural Communication Division. The book is a critical ethnography unpacking several Taiwanese and Chinese communities living and working on the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2021, she published her second book, Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship. In this work, Cheng develops a theoretical concept derived from Taiwanese experiences, and shows its application to citizenship development in other cultural contexts.