Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-261) and index
Introduction: nations and identities in Asia / Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid -- Constructing the national body: public health and the nation in nineteenth-century Japan / Susan L. Burns -- Discourses of empowerment: missionary Orientalism in the development of Dravidian nationalism / V. Ravindiran -- Decentering the "middle kingdom": the problem of China in Korean nationalist thought, 1895-1910 / Andre Schmid -- Two kinds of nation, what kind of state? / R. Bin Wong -- Chen Gongbo and the construction of a modern nation in 1930s China / Margherita Zanasi -- Collaborationist nationalism in occupied wartime China / Timothy Brook -- The incoherent nation: an exploration of Chinese "postnationalism" / Xiaoping Li -- Nation and postnation in Japan: global capitalism and the idea of national history / Thomas Keirstead