![]() ![]() The chapter picks up on the ‘missed opportunity’ between postcolonial and China studies and the relative non-engagement with the PRC in inter-Asian cultural studies, offering a series of reflections on overlaps between them––e.g. Equally clear is that, although sometimes designated as ‘non-colonized’ or outside the problematic of postcolonialism, the PRC is deeply influenced by modern imperialism and neoliberalism. To what extent, the chapter asks, is Asia today best understood as a China-centred global system, as also suggested by ASEAN+3? Certainly, the PRC poses a number of challenges to current theories about colonialism, sovereignty and the alleged end of the Cold War. ![]() "How to make sense of ‘Asia’––an impossible object of study––and what it means today in light of the rise of China after the age of opium wars and full-on imperialism. ![]()
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