Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Theorizing beyond Imperial Aesthetics in East Asia 1
5. I. Beyond Boundaries: Theorizing Aesthetics in East Asia since 1945
6. 1. Asian Theory and European Humanity: On the Question of Anthropological Difference 21
7. 2. Cold War Aesthetics in East Asia 52
8. 3. The Turn to Japan and Return to War 77
9. II. Politics of the Sensuous: Love, Bodies, and Sexuality in East Asia
10. 4. Male Sexuality in the Colony: On Toyokawa Zen’ichi’s Searchlight 95
11. 5. The Grain of Jade: Woman, Repression, and Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town 116
12. 6. Corpo-reality in the Hong Kong New Wave 125
13. III. Disjunctive Alignments: Critical Aesthetics and Social Movements in East Asia
14. 7. On the Form’s Edge: Adaniya Masayoshi’s Abstract Paintings and Biopolitics in US-Occupied Okinawa 145
15. 8. Reconciling the Animal and the City in Photography: Kim Kichan’s Works in 1970s Korea 174
16. 9. Performing Absence, Translating “China”: Disrupted History and Performative Identity in Stan Lai’s Xiangsheng Plays 193
17. IV. Beyond Neoliberal Borders: From Biopolitical Spaces to an Affective Community
18. 10. Tange Lab and Biopolitics: From the Geopolitics of the Living Sphere to the Nervous System of the Nation 217
19. 11. Multitemporality between Sovereignty and Neoliberal Governmentality: A Single Spark and The Old Garden 243
20. 12. The Affective Multitude: Toward a Transcultural Meaning of Enlightenment 263
21. Contributors 293
22. Index 296