12. Japan the Beautiful: 1950S Cosmetic Surgery and the Expressive Asian Body

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire 1
5. 2. “Intimate Frontiers”: Disciplining Ethnicity And Ainu Women’S Sexual Subjectivity In Early Colonial Hokkaido 19
6. 3. Playing the Race Card in Japanese-Governed Taiwan: Or, Anthropometric Photographs as “Shape-Shifting Jokers” 38
7. 4. Assimilation’s Racializing Sensibilities: Colonized Koreans as Yobos and the “Yobo-Ization” of Expatriate Japanese 81
8. 5. How Do Abject Bodies Respond? Ethnographies of a Dispersed Empire 108
9. 6. Faces That Change: Physiognomy, Portraiture, and Photography in Colonial Korea 133
10. 7. Speaking Japanese: Language and the Expectation of Empire 159
11. 8. Race Behind the Walls: Contact and Containment in Japanese Images of Urban Manchuria 180
12. 9. Imagining an Affective Community in Asia: Japan’s Wartime Broadcasting and Voices of Inclusion 207
13. 10. Racialized Sounds and Cinematic Affect: My Nightingale, the Russian Diaspora, and Musical Film in Manchukuo 225
14. 11. Chang Hyŏkchu and the Short Twentieth Century 244
15. 12. Japan the Beautiful: 1950S Cosmetic Surgery and the Expressive Asian Body 260
16. 13. Implied Promises Betrayed: “Intraracial” Alterity during Japan’s Imperial Period 286
17. 14. The Sun Never Sets on Little Black Sambo: Circuits of Affection and the Cultural Hermeneutics of Chibikuro Sambo—A Transpacific Approach 304
18. 15. Delivering Lu Xun to the Empire: The Afterlife of Lu Xun in the Works of Takeuchi Yoshimi, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi 328
19. Contributors 347
20. Index 351