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This paper examines the relations of nanotechnology, Asian subject, and posthuman community focusing on Linda Nagata's The Bohr Maker. Nagata's construction of nanotechnological future is not a simple elaboration of the new technological development. She focuses on the relation between Asian subjects and emerging nanotechnologies through exploring the definitions of the “human” in the future. The text shows that Asian characters like Nikko and Phousita are victims of bionanotechnology and regarded as animal or freak by the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth dominates the old nations of Earth, the satellite Celestial Cities and the Orbiting Corporations through biological and technological law. Especially, the law of Commonwealth is strict on the use of bionanotechnology based on artificial intelligence. The new nanotechnologies by Linda Bohr and Fox liberate Nikko and Phousita from the bonds of Commonwealth law. The Bohr Maker enhances Phousita's intelligence and she gets the power of healing others as well as herself. It leads to develop herself as a free and powerful leader of the underdeveloped community on Earth. Nikko's rebirth in the biogenesis function and Phousita's growth as a leader of the new community show more complicated examples of posthuman subjectivity and community in the age of nanotechnology. Their transformation of identity shows the possibility that new nanotechnology can generate a field within which the new politics of community and culture might be constructed. In particular, Nagata provides the new construction of power and subjectivity through turning attention to Asian peoples in nations such as Indonesia and India. She suggests a new way of envisaging the relation of technology and the formation of new community.