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Wu Zhuoliu's celebrated ”Orphan of Asia” illustrates a metonymic relationship among orphan, postloyalism, and Sinophone studies. Three interrelated dialectics support such metonymic relationship: orphan and postloyalism; orphan and Sinophone studies; postloyalism and Sinophone studies. Central to the three dialectics is the issue of loyalty and migration. The essay first provides an overview of ”Orphan of Asia” with an emphasis on movement, calling attention to how the metaphor of orphan partakes in the meaning of migrant and loyalist. Subsequently, from the postloyalist equation of migrant and loyalist, the essay considers the critical overlap between postloyalism and Sinophone studies, especially the Sinophone studies in the field of Asian American Studies. Orphan as metaphor provides a valid and important entrance into further inquiry about the unnerving tension between multiple consciousness of loyalty and various national delineations. Sinophone Americans might be judged by some as insufficiently Chinese and by others insufficiently American just like Wu Zhuoliu's Hu Taiming as neither Chinese nor Japanese yet always Chinese or Japanese. The essay argues that we cannot think through such liminal status without referring to the migrant's moving experience. From the mutual invocation of orphan/migrant/loyalist, the essay considers examples of how various kinship relations give rise to familial and national imaginations, and vice versa.
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