The author, editor, and publisher wish to thank the following for permission to reproduce material previously published elsewhere: Duke University Press, for chapter 1, “The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies,” first published in The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (2006), 25–43; and also for chapter 11, “A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later,” in Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (2000), first published in boundary 2 34, no. 1 (2007): 67–77. Postcolonial Studies for chapter 2, “The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation,” first published in Postcolonial Studies 1, no. 2 (1998): 161–69. Indiana University Press for chapter 3, excerpt from “Introduction: Leading Questions,” first published in Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies (1993), 1–22; also chapter 5, “The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formation of Community in Frantz Fanon,” and chapter 9, “The Dream of a Butterfly,” both first published in Ethics After Idealism: Theory—Culture—Ethnicity—Reading (1998), 55–73 and 74–97. Columbia University Press for chapter 4, “Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation,” and chapter 6, “When Whiteness Feminizes … : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic,” both first published in The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2002), 54–60 and 154–160; chapter 10, “Film as Ethnography; or, Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World,” first published in Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (1995), 176–202; chapter 12, excerpt from the introduction to Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility (2007), 1–17; and chapter 13, an excerpt from Sentimental Fabulations, 146–65. Oxford University Press for chapter 7, “Film and Cultural Identity,” first published in The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, ed. J. Hill et al. (1998), 169–75; and the University of Minnesota Press for chapter 8, “Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship,” first published in Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East (1990), 3–33.