The Rey Chow Reader

Editor's IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, by AlteritySeeing Is DestroyingThe World Becomes VirtualThe Orbit of Self and OtherFrom Atomic Bombs to Area Studies2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading QuestionsOrientalism and East Asia: The Persistence of a Scholarly TraditionSanctifying the "Subaltern": The Productivity of White GuiltTactics of InterventionThe Chinese Lesson4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic RepresentationThe Inevitability of Stereotypes in Cross-Ethnic Representation5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, by MiscegenationRace and the Problem of AdmittanceCommunity Formation and Sexual Difference: A Double Theoretical DiscourseWhat Does the Woman of Color Want?The Force of MiscegenationCommunity Building Among Theorists of Postcoloniality6. When Whiteness Feminizes ... : Some Consequences of a Supplementary LogicIs "Woman" a Woman, by a ManPart 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics 7. Film and Cultural Identity8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship9. 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 MoiCoda: New Questions for Cultural Difference and Identity10. Film as Ethnography; or, by Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial WorldThe Primacy of To-Be-Looked-At-nessTranslation and the Problem of OriginsTranslation as "Cultural Resistance"The "Third Term"Weakness, by FluidityThe Light of the Arcade11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, by Sixty Years LaterCoda12. From Sentimental Fabulations, by

Paul Bowman is lecturer in cultural studies at Cardiff University and author of Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies, Deconstructing Popular Culture, and Theorizing Bruce Lee.

"Rey Chow is one of the most interesting and iconoclastic theorists cited in the United States and writing in English today. She crosses fields and areas of study with such assurance and brio as to make one wonder why no one else has done so before. This collection will advance readership of Chow¿s work and open up edges and aspects of critical theory to new readers." ¿ Caren Kaplan, University of California at Davis