Chih-yu Shih is National Chair Professor, teaching anthropology of knowledge, civilizational studies, and international relations, at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Asian Ethnicity. His current research focuses on comparative epistemology of China studies/Chinese studies and international relations theory.

How do migrant Chinese intellectuals in Southeast Asia understand and represent 'Chineseness' or China in their creative works, academic writings, and practices of life, in response to the impediments placed on self-identification by the need to integrate into new social surroundings? This book was originally published as a special issue of Asian Ethnicity.

Introduction: the beauty of being accurate 1. Producing and reconstructing knowledge on China in Singapore: perspectives from the academics and mass media 2. Rewriting Singapore and rewriting Chineseness: Lee Guan Kin's diasporic stance 3. Between a subject and an object: representation of China in Kuo Pao-kun's Singapore and Denny Yung's Hong Kong 4. Intellectual paths of Thailand's first generation China scholars: a research note on encountering and choices of Khien Theeravit and Sarasin Viraphol 5. Looking beyond ethnicity: the negotiation of Chinese Muslim identity in Penang, Malaysia 6. Patrolling Chineseness: Singapore's Kowloon Club and the ethnic adaptation of Hong Kongese to Singaporean society