CONTENTS -- Preface -- Contributors -- Copyrighted Essays -- Introduction: The Trans-Pacific Imagination - Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society Naoki Sakai and Hyon Joo Yoo -- National Sovereignty and the Regime of International Law -- Postcoloniality and Nationality -- Asia: A Marker of Civilizational Transference -- Complicity and the Global Sovereign State -- Victimhood Nationalism and the Crisis of Masculinity -- History Textbook and Shame -- Notes -- Towards a Transnational History of Victimhood Nationalism: On the Trans-Pacific Space Jie-Hyun Lim -- The Transnationality of Victimhood Nationalism -- From Heroes to Victims: Hereditary Victimhood in Korea -- From Victimizers to Victims: Apologies for Memory in Japan -- Responsibility: From Whom to Whom? -- Notes -- The Trans-Pacific Migrant and Area Studies Lisa Lowe -- Notes -- Imprinting the Empire: Western Artists and the Persistence of Colonialism in East Asia Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- The Art of Occupation -- Four Artists and the Japanese Empire -- Floating Worlds: The Japanese Empire and the Making of the "Far East" -- Tourism, Imperialism and the Multi-Focal Eye -- Politics Cut Out -- The Persistence of Empire -- Notes -- The Political Formation of the Homoerotics and the Cold War: The Battle of Gazes at and from Okinawa Ikuo Shinjou -- "They Rejected Me Plainly": Ôe Kenzaburô's Okinawa Note -- The Japanese Subject Formation and the Status of the Homoerotics -- Notes -- Securing Okinawa for Miscegenation: Gender and Trans-Pacific Empire of the United States and Japan Annmaria Shimabuku -- Opposite Views of Security Behind a Unified Front of Protest -- The State as the "Coldest of Cold Monsters" -- Feminist Critique of the Military Institution -- Biopower -- Securing Okinawa for Miscegenation -- The Tent Village of Garama -- Conclusion -- Notes.

The Politics of Postcoloniality and the Literature of "Being-in-Japan" (Zainichi) Hyoduk Lee -- Postcoloniality of Japan in the Asia-Pacific -- What Is Zainichi Literature? -- Zainichi Literature around 1970 -- Ethnicity/Class, Ethnicity/Gender -- Perpetual "Postcolonial" -- Notes -- The Incurable Feminine: Women Without a Country in East Asian Cinema Hyon Joo Yoo -- Antigone's Impossible Place -- The Impossible Subject: Women Without a Country -- What Does Woman without a Country Want? -- Notes -- Inter-Asia Comparative Framework: Postcolonial Film Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea Soyoung Kim -- Filmmaking as Postcolonial Archival Practice -- Almost Life Like in The Puppet Master -- Chihwas on as a Tale of Pre-Cinema -- Flashbacks and a Good Ear (Singer) -- The Paradox of Postcolonial Archival Work -- Notes -- Postcolonial Hiroshima, Mon Amour: Franco-Japanese Collaboration in the American Shadow Yuko Shibata -- The Nexus Between Hiroshima and Nevers -- Prewar Hiroshima as a Military City -- The Collaboration Between France and Japan in French Indochina -- Duras' Commitment to the French Empire -- The Othering of the Japanese Man -- Postcolonial Hiroshima, Mon Amour -- Notes -- Reconceptualizing "East Asia" in the Post-Cold War Era Sun Ge -- Problematizing the Contemporary Chinese Perspective on East Asia -- Disequilibrium within East Asia -- History of the Cold War and the East Asian Regional Relations -- The Historical Perspective After the Cold War and the Narrative of East Asia -- Notes -- Trans-Pacific Studies and the US-Japan Complicity Naoki Sakai -- Notes -- Appendix -- Index.