Contents -- Introduction: Nations and Identities in Asia / Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid -- Constructing the National Body: Public Health and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Japan / Susan L. Burns -- Discourses of Empowerment: Missionary Orientalism in the Development of Dravidian Nationalism / V. Ravindiran -- Decentering the "Middle Kingdom": The Problem of China in Korean Nationalist Thought, 1895-1910 / Andre Schmid -- Two Kinds of Nation, What Kind of State? / R. Bin Wong -- Chen Gongbo and the Construction of a Modern Nation in 1930s China / Margherita Zanasi -- Collaborationist Nationalism in Occupied Wartime China / Timothy Brook -- The Incoherent Nation: An Exploration of Chinese "Postnationalism" / Xiaoping Li -- Nation and Postnation in Japan: Global Capitalism and the Idea of National History / Thomas Keirstead -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.