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