How Long to Read On Not Speaking Chinese

How Long Does it Take to Read On Not Speaking Chinese?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 15 minutes to read On Not Speaking Chinese by Ien Ang

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself "faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty" - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She writes: "It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engagement with the predicaments of `Chineseness' in diaspora. In Taiwan I was different because I couldn't speak Chinese; in the West I was different because I looked Chinese". From this autobiographical beginning, Ang goes on to reflect upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and to consider the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world. She offers a critique of the increasingly aggressive construction of a global Chineseness, and challenges Western tendencies to equate `Chinese' with `Asian' identity. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbours, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society. Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of `Asia' and `the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the `in-between', arguing for a theorising not of `difference' but of `togetherness' in contemporary societies.

How long is On Not Speaking Chinese?

On Not Speaking Chinese by Ien Ang is 248 pages long, and a total of 63,984 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read On Not Speaking Chinese Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read On Not Speaking Chinese aloud.

What Reading Level is On Not Speaking Chinese?

On Not Speaking Chinese is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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