The effects of Colonialism in and of Asia, crossing into the current era of Post Colonialism, and finding junctures with the intensified global flows of the now, encourage the production of ideas and ideologies of representation of self and other, as well as ideologies embedded in social and cultural performativities. Pervasive throughout the twentieth century was Western dominance, a hegemony now countered by post-structuralist notions of global identity, decentering the West, and ‘recentering’ the East. Language and identity emerge as constructs central to the understandings of these re-centerings, and understood not least through a Linguistic Anthropology. Here, Asian languages and identities have become an increasingly concentrated nexus for new representations of global knowledge, globalization, and global identities.