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THE PACIFIC SHUTTLE 173 Much scholarship on Chinese subjects has been shaped by the orientalist concern with presenting the other as a timeless, unchanging culture. Recent attempts to 8 revise the static image of Chineseness nevertheless still confine the analysis of ways of being Chinese within the clearly defined Chinese contexts of the nation-state and culture.3 An essentializing notion of Chineseness continues to dog the scholar­ ship because the Chinese past, nation, singular history, or some cultural core is The Pacific Sh uttle: Fa mily, taken to be the main and unchanging determinant of Chinese identity. Sometimes we forget that we are talking about one-quarter of the worlds population. Wha