This article examines the politics of the majoritarian binary, ”The West and the Rest,” and more specifically, ”Western Theory, Asian Reality,” as a politics of power that serves specific interests ranging from imperialism and nationalism to the suppression of heterogeneity in languages, ethnicities, and cultures. The Sinophone is posited here as a presence, literary and otherwise, that interrupts this majoritarian binary by challenging the chain of equivalence among ethnicity, language, and nationality.