Introduction: Chineseness and The Chinese Diaspora.- Constructing and Performing Chineseness.- The Voice of a Woman: Doreen Cheong.- The Voice of a Man: Reg Mu Sung.- Authenticity and Physicality: Chineseness in Cultural and Racial Discourses.- Chineseness Through the Life Course.- Decentered Linkages and Hybridity: The Ambivalence of Chineseness as Identity.- Conclusion.