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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction Acknowledgments Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation 5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, by Miscegenation 6. When Whiteness Feminizes ... : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic 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 10. Film as Ethnography; or, by Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, by Sixty 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, by Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, by a Different Type of Migration Notes Index
