Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Abbreviations xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Biopolitics
8. 1. Cool(ie) Japan 25
9. 2. Peripheral Pimps 57
10. 3. Empire in Hysterics 81
11. 4. Stubborn Farmers and Grotesqued Korea 101
12. Intertext I. A Korean is being beaten; I, a Japanese colonizer, am being beaten 119
13. Part II Neuropolitics
14. 5. All That’s Solid Melts into Modern Girls and Boys 135
15. 6. Revolutionary Pornography and the Declining Rate of Pleasure 161
16. Intertext II. Neuropolitics Sprouts Fangs 203
17. Part III Necropolitics
18. 7. The Opiate of the (Chinese) People 227
19. 8. Japanese Lessons 263
20. Conclusion: Bare Labor and the Empire of the Living Dead 295
21. Notes 315
22. Bibliography 327
23. Index 345