1.Chineseness in Motion: The Historicity of Nation and Contingency of Ethnicity
Part One: Historicizing the Construction of Chineseness
2.Demonstrating the Chineseness in the Forbidden City: From the Qing Court to the People's Republic
3.The Embodiments of Chinese Identity: An Investigation of "Ancestral Sacrifices" to the Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor
4.Negotiating Chineseness in the post-WW2 context of Singapore (1955-1965).5
Academic Diplomacy, the Convergence of Sino-Thai Intellectual Nationalisms and the Chinese of Thailand
6.Workers as Human Power: Late-Qing Intellectual Discourse of Chineseness in the Stories of Chinese Labor in Latin America
Part Two: Chineseness as a Social Construct
7.Rethinking the Position of Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia
8."We are Southeast Asian Chinese": The notion of 'Chineseness' among Chinese Bruneians
9.Continuity and Change: The Dynamics of Chineseness in Indonesia
10.Straightly Chinese: Censorship and Systemic Homophobia in Contemporary China
Part Three: Constructing Chineseness in Popular Culture
11.Negotiating Chineseness through English dialects in Crazy Rich Asians
12.Language, identities and resistance: comparing two ethnic Chinese rappers from Malaysia and Singapore
13.Xinyao Talentimes: Television Sinophone Mediascapes and the making of Chinese-Singaporean identities in the 1980s
14.Becoming a Nanyang Style Artist in Postwar Singapore and Malaya: Georgette Chen's Drawing and Her Construction of Asian Themes
15. Constructing and Interpreting Chineseness in Shaonu Manhua: An Ethnographic Study of the Production and the Consumption of Chinese Girls' Comics.