Anti-Japan

Leo T. S. Ching is Associate Professor of Japanese and East Asian Cultural Studies at Duke University and author of Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Anti-Japanism (and Pro-Japanism) in East Asia  1
1. When Bruce Lee Meets Gojira: Transimperial Characters, Anti-Japanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Failure of Decolonization  19
2. "Japanese Devils": The Conditions and Limits of Anti-Japanism in China  36
3. Shameful Bodies, Bodily Shame: "Comfort Women" and Anti-Japanism in South Korea  57
4. Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Anxiety: The D san Generation In-Between "Retrocession" and "Defeat"  80
5. "In the Name of Love": Critical Regionalism and Co-Viviality in Post-East Asia  98
6. Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference  115
Epilogue. From Anti-Japanism to Decolonizing Democracy: Youth Protests in East Asia  132
Notes  143
References  153
Index  161