Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : representations of race in East Asian empire / Christopher P. Hanscom and Dennis Washburn -- "Intimate frontiers" : disciplining ethnicity and Ainu women's sexual subjectivity in early colonial Hokkaido / Ann-Elise Lewallen -- Playing the race card in Japanese governed Taiwan, or, anthropometric photographs as "shape-shifting jokers" / Paul D. Barclay -- Assimilation's racializing sensibilities : colonized Koreans as yobos and the "yoboization" of expatriate Japanese / Todd A. Henry -- How do abject bodies respond? : ethnographies of a dispersed empire / Chul Kim -- Faces that change : physiognomy, portraiture and photography in colonial Korea / Gyewon Kim -- Speaking Japanese : language and the expectation of empire / Kate McDonald -- Race behind the walls : contact and containment in Japanese images of urban Manchuria / Kari Shepherdson-Scott -- Imagining an affective community in Asia : Japan's wartime broadcasting and voices of inclusion / Ji Hee Jung -- Racialized sounds and cinematic affect : my nightingale, the Russian diaspora, and musical film in Manchukuo / Inyoung Bong -- Chang Hyokchu and the short twentieth century / John Whittier Treat -- Japan the beautiful : 1950s cosmetic surgery and the expressive Asian body / Kim Brandt -- Implied promises betrayed : "intraracial" alterity during Japan's imperial period / Edward Mack -- The sun never sets on Little Black Sambo : circuits of affection and the cultural hermeneutics of Chibikuro Sambo, a transpacific approach / William H. Bridges IV -- Delivering Lu Xun to the empire : the afterlife of Lu Xun in the works of Takeuchi Yoshimi, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi / Angela Yiu.

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