| Abstrakt: |
It is not particularly contentious to say that ethnic minority people in China are highly--sometimes painfully--aware of being looked at, of being a desired object to be seen. But the fact that visual presence is so central to Chinese multiculturalism does not really reveal anything about what the experience of being seen is like, or how it feels to be asked to be looked at. In this essay, the recollections of two Miao women illustrate why the most powerful aspect of Chinese multiculturalism today is how it functions on the assumption that it cannot be so difficult to be oneself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
