1. Introduction: The decolonization question / Kuan-Hsing Chen -- 2. Globalization and the South: The Philippine experience / Renato Constantino -- 3. Yellow skin, white masks: Race, class, and identification in Japanese colonial discourse / Leo Ching -- 4. Eurocentric reluctance: Notes for a cultural studies of 'the new Europe' / Ien Ang -- 5. Managerializing colonialism / Wing-Sang Law -- 6. A colonized empire: Reflections on the expansion of Hong Kong films in Asian countries / Ding-Tzann Lii -- 7. A new cosmopolitanism: Toward a dialogue of Asian civilizations / Ashis Nandy -- 8. Despotic empire/nation-state: Local responses to Chinese nationalism in an age of global capitalism / Kenneth Dean -- 9. Culture, multiracialism, and national identity in Singapore / Beng-Huat Chua -- 10. Thai pop music and cultural negotiation in everyday politics / Ubonrat Siriyuvasak -- 11. Representing the voices of the silenced: East Timor in contemporary Indonesian short stories / Budiawan.