Аннотация:This special issue of positions turns on a great irony of the postcolonial world: as the colonialists vacate their spaces of control, the colonial has gone native in the bodies of a stratum of the colonized.Nested within the positional structure of the imperial, the original and continuing power of the core states, a subimperial relation between the dominant of the dominated and their periphery emerges.The domination of the core powers over East Asia is replicated as a fractal imperial relation between forces in Hong Kong and Taiwan, on one hand, and a new domination franchise involuted within Taiwan and Hong Kong and exvoluted to China and Southeast Asia.Under the continuing sign of orientalism, a suboriental space of representation re-creates the symbolic violence of orientalism on another scale.Understanding the coming into being and the negation of this system of nationalist domination is this issue's project.Beyond the concern with subimperialism and suborientalism, the essays here share a methodological and theoretical disposition.The structures explored here are not the unfolding of master imperial and orientalist log-
