CONTENTS
PART 1. MODERNITY AND POSTCOLONIAL ETHNICITY
1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies
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
4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation
The Inevitability of Stereotypes in Cross-Ethnic Representation
Race and the Problem of Admittance
Community Formation and Sexual Difference: A Double Theoretical Discourse
What Does the Woman of Color Want?
Community Building Among Theorists of Postcoloniality
6. When Whiteness Feminizes: Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic
Is “Woman” a Woman, a Man, or What? The Unstable Status of Woman in Contemporary Cultural Criticism
PART 2. FILMIC VISUALITY AND TRANSCULTURAL POLITICS
8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship
“East Is East and West Is West, and Ne’er the Twain Shall Meet”
“The Beauty … of Her Death. It’s a … Pure Sacrifice”
The Force of Butterfly; or, the “Oriental Woman” as Phallus
“Under the Robes, Beneath Everything, It Was Always Me”
“It’s Not the Story; It’s the Music”
Coda: New Questions for Cultural Difference and Identity
10. Film as Ethnography; or, 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”
Weakness, Fluidity, and the Fabling of the World
Highlights of a Western Discipline
Image, Time, Identity: Trajectories of Becoming Visible
Defining the Sentimental in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Cinema
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