The Chinese Atlantic

"Thoughtfully engaging contemporary aesthetic practices, from performance and visual art to tai chi and documentary film, Sean Metzger connects dots across the Atlantic and to China, as both geopolitical entity and discursive construction. Along the way, he poses bold and generative questions about bodies, identities and representations, and the political and economic relations that make them matter."—Richard Fung, Professor Emeritus, Ontario College of Art and Design University

"With careful research and clear-eyed prose, The Chinese Atlantic attunes readers to an archipelogical poetics of Chineseness in the Caribbean that is at once ratifying and revelatory. This is interdisciplinary performance studies scholarship that is destined to make waves!"—Tavia Nyong'o, author of Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life

"Metzger demonstrates that artworks can be vessels that cut pathways through surface representations and move us with the undercurrents of our global networks: art offers us the experience of sensing the world in ways that release us from the script of a totalizing representational system. The Chinese Atlantic contributes to a growing body of scholarship dedicated to exploring the role of aesthetics and cultural production in the totalizing representational system of liberal humanism."—Hadley Howes, Queen's University, ANTIPODE ONLINE