Ming-yan Lai is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

"Nativism and Modernity rescues nativism from the usual charges of nationalism and regionalism (while making careful distinctions between the terms), and explicates its many promises and limits in a judicious manner. The book makes an important contribution to the study of nativism and will go a long way in dispelling simplistic misconceptions of the intellectual and literary formation known as nativism." — Shu-mei Shih, author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Interrogating (through) the Native 1. Of Alter/Natives, Margins and Post/Modernity at the Rim 2. Beneath the Claims of Native Soil: Class, Nation, Gender, and Xiangtu Nativism in Taiwan 3. Beyond the Reach of Roots: Marginality, Masculinity, and Xungen Nativism in the People’s Republic of China 4. Gendering Natives, Engendering Alternatives Postscript: Place-based Politics in China and Taiwan Today NotesIndex

Ming-yan Lai is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

"Nativism and Modernity rescues nativism from the usual charges of nationalism and regionalism (while making careful distinctions between the terms), and explicates its many promises and limits in a judicious manner. The book makes an important contribution to the study of nativism and will go a long way in dispelling simplistic misconceptions of the intellectual and literary formation known as nativism." — Shu-mei Shih, author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Interrogating (through) the Native 1. Of Alter/Natives, Margins and Post/Modernity at the Rim 2. Beneath the Claims of Native Soil: Class, Nation, Gender, and Xiangtu Nativism in Taiwan 3. Beyond the Reach of Roots: Marginality, Masculinity, and Xungen Nativism in the People’s Republic of China 4. Gendering Natives, Engendering Alternatives Postscript: Place-based Politics in China and Taiwan Today NotesIndex

Ming-yan Lai is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

"Nativism and Modernity rescues nativism from the usual charges of nationalism and regionalism (while making careful distinctions between the terms), and explicates its many promises and limits in a judicious manner. The book makes an important contribution to the study of nativism and will go a long way in dispelling simplistic misconceptions of the intellectual and literary formation known as nativism." — Shu-mei Shih, author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Interrogating (through) the Native 1. Of Alter/Natives, Margins and Post/Modernity at the Rim 2. Beneath the Claims of Native Soil: Class, Nation, Gender, and Xiangtu Nativism in Taiwan 3. Beyond the Reach of Roots: Marginality, Masculinity, and Xungen Nativism in the People’s Republic of China 4. Gendering Natives, Engendering Alternatives Postscript: Place-based Politics in China and Taiwan Today NotesIndex