Acknowledgements .............................................. vii
Introduction: The Chinese Exotic ................................ 1
I Fold ....................................................... 25
1 Folding Chinese Boxes: Sensing the Chinese Exotic ........... 27
II Cross Over ................................................. 67
2 Spies, Vamps and Women Warriors: Translating the Exotic
into the Technics of Chinese Femininity ..................... 69
III Ornament .................................................. 111
3 Ethnic Supplementarity and the Ornamental Text: Asian
American and Asian Australian Diasporic Literary
Production ................................................. 113
IV Region .................................................... 149
4 From the Chinese Exotic to the Asian Exotic: Critical
Regionalism and Pop Culture Asianism ....................... 151
Conclusion: Heliotropic Manoeuvres ............................ 169
Notes ......................................................... 173
Filmography ................................................... 197
Bibliography .................................................. 199
Index ......................................................... 215
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