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Ang argues 'for the importance of hybridity in a world in which we no longer have the secure capacity to draw the line between us and them, the different and the same, here and there, and indeed, between "Asian" and "Western"'. She believes that under the conditions of contemporary globalisation the concept of hybridity is more useful than 'other key concepts in the contemporary politics of difference - such as diaspora and multiculturalism - [because] it foregrounds complicated entanglement rather than identity, togetherness-in-difference rather than separateness and virtual apartheid'.
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Most of the material in this paper was published in a different form in Ang's book On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West.
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On Not Speaking Chinese : Living Between Asia and the West
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Routledge
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2001
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2001
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Deals with questions of identity in an age of globalization and diaspora. Ien Ang identifies herself as being neither fully 'Asian' nor completely 'Western' . She explores the relationship between Asia and 'The West' arguing for a 'togetherness-in-difference' in contemporary societies.
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