Introduction: Transcending National Identities PART I: A WORLD SINICIZED INTO HARMONY: CENTRALIZED PERSPECTIVES Harmonious Realism: Undecidable Responses to the China Threat Harmonious Racism: China's Civilizational Soft Power in Africa PART II: CHINA INTERNATIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL: PERSPECTIVES BEYOND Taiwan Chinese: Encountering and Choice in Postcolonial Scholarship Global Chinese: Contending Approaches to Defending Chineseness PART III: CHINA SUBALTERN AND DIFFERENT: PERSPECTIVES BELOW Urban Chinese: Self-Sinicization as a Method of Political Stability Village Chinese: Anomaly as a Method of Chinese Transition PART IV: WORLDING EAST ASIA THROUGH CHINA: MULTISITED PERSPECTIVES Japanese Asian: Absence of China 1997 in Japan Times Reporting Korean Asian: The Sinic Tribute System of China and Its Equals Global Asian: China as Position between Host and Home Conclusion: Serious Hypocrisy