Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity
1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, by Alterity
Seeing Is Destroying
The World Becomes Virtual
The Orbit of Self and Other
From Atomic Bombs to Area Studies
2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation
3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions
Orientalism and East Asia: The Persistence of a Scholarly Tradition
Sanctifying the "Subaltern": The Productivity of White Guilt
Tactics of Intervention
The Chinese Lesson
4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation
The Inevitability of Stereotypes in Cross-Ethnic Representation
5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, by Miscegenation
Race and the Problem of Admittance
Community Formation and Sexual Difference: A Double Theoretical Discourse
What Does the Woman of Color Want?
The Force of Miscegenation
Community Building Among Theorists of Postcoloniality
6. When Whiteness Feminizes . . . : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic
Is "Woman" a Woman, by a Man
Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics
7. Film and Cultural Identity
8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship
9. The Dream of a Butterfly
"East Is East and West Is West, by and Ne’er the Twain Shall Meet"
"The Beauty . . . of Her Death. It’s a . . . Pure Sacrifice"
The Force of Butterfly; or, by the "Oriental Woman" as Phallus
"Under the Robes, by Beneath Everything
"It’s Not the Story; It’s the Music"
Madame Butterfly, by C’est Moi
Coda: New Questions for Cultural Difference and Identity
10. Film as Ethnography; or, by Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World
The Primacy of To-Be-Looked-At-ness
Translation and the Problem of Origins
Translation as "Cultural Resistance"
The "Third Term"
Weakness, by Fluidity
The Light of the Arcade
11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth, by Sixty Years Later
Coda
12. From Sentimental Fabulations, by Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
Introduction
Highlights of a Western Discipline
Image, by Time
Defining the Sentimental in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Cinema
13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, by a Different Type of Migration
Altruistic Fictions in China’s Happy Times
How to Add Back a Subtracted Child? The Transmutation and Abjection of Human Labor in Not One Less
Notes
Index
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