"China Abroad has two remarkable strengths first, it rethinks the formation and territorialization of the Chinese diaspora, in all its complexities and differences. Second, it resituates debates about nation and diaspora to show their close interdependenc

"China Abroad is a valuable contribution to the field of transnational cultural studies of China. Its chapters weave together a richly textured palimpsest of competing discourses, images, representations, and dreams of what it means to be Chinese from the

Elaine Yee Lin Ho is associate professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She has published book monographs on Timothy Mo (2000) and Anita Desai (2006), and many articles on anglophone world literatures and Hong Kong film, literature, and culture. Her current research interest is in literature and literary cultures at the intersections of Hong Kong, mainland China, and the West. Julia Kuehn is assistant professor in English at the University of Hong Kong, where her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-century literature and travel writing. Her publications include Glorious Vulgarity Marie Corelli's Feminine Sublime in a Popular Context (2004), and the edited collections A Century of Travels in China Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s (2007) and Travel Writing, Form and Empire The Poetics and Politics of Mobility (2008).