Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Japan in the World 1
4. The World
5. Japan's Industrial Revolution in Historical Perspective 13
6. The Prussia of the East? 31
7. Racism and the State: The Coming Crisis of U.S.-Japanese Relations 40
8. "Past Experience, If Not Forgotten, Is a Guide to the Future"; or, What Is in a Text? The Politics of History in Chinese-Japanese Relations 49
9. Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: Japan in British/American Hegemony, 1900-1950 79
10. Society
11. Constructing a New Cultural History of Prewar Japan 115
12. The Spirit of Productivity: Workplace Discourse on Culture and Economics in Japan 144
13. Culture
14. The Novelist in Today's World: A Conversation 163
15. Soseki and Western Modernism 177
16. America's Japan / Japan's Japan 196
17. In a Labyrinth of Western Desire: Kuki Shuzo and the Discovery of Japanese Being 222
18. Return to the West / Return to the East: Watsuji Tetsuro's Anthropology and Discussions of Authenticity 237
19. The Invention of English Literature in Japan 271
20. The Discursive Space of Modern Japan 288
21. Theory's Imaginal Other: American Encounters with South Korea and Japan 316
22. The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order 338
23. Index 355
24. Contributors 363