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.

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Rey Chow is one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. She contributes to as many disciplines as she weaves into her elegantly structured, comparative critiques, and her ever-expanding oeuvre confronts the interlocking and overlapping fields of film, sex, gender, ethnography, postcolonialism, visual culture, cultural studies, and Asian society and politics. Chow's essays connect topics as dissimilar as ethnic mothers and dinosaurs, avant-garde film and the politics of ethnicity, and high theory and area studies. The first anthology to gather and situate Chow's vitally relevant, transnational thought, this collection not only introduces readers to Chow's most important theoretical explorations but also serves as an ideal entry point into the fields she transforms.Praise for Rey Chow"[Rey Chow is] methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attending to the implications of ethnicity."& mdash; Social Semiotics"Rich and powerful work that provides both a dazzling synthesis of contemporary cultural theory and at the same time an exemplary critique of Chinese cinema." & mdash;China Information"Should be read by all who are concerned with the future of human rights, liberalism, multiculturalism, identity politics, and feminism."& mdash;Dorothy Ko"Wide-ranging, theoretically rich, and provocative...completely restructures the problem of ethnicity."& mdash;Fredric Jameson

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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