Three realms/myriad countries: an "ethnography" of other and the re-bounding of Japan, 1550-1750 / Ronald P. Toby -- Narrating nation, race, and national culture: imagining the Hanzu identity in modern China / Kai-wing Chow -- Narrating China, ordering East Asia: the discourse on nation and ethnicity in Imperial Japan / Kevin M. Doak -- Discoveries of the Hōryúji / Stefan Tanaka -- Political ritual in the early Republic of China / Peter Zarrow -- In search of history in democratic Korea: the discourse of modernity in contemporary historical fiction / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Cosmopolitanism and the ideal image of nation in Communist Revolutionary culture / Hung-yok Ip -- Between nationalism and colonialism: mainland émigrés, marginal culture, Hong Kong cinema, 1937-1941 / Poshek Fu -- Trials of the Taiwanese as Hanjian or war criminals and the postwar search for Taiwanese identity / Jiu-jung Lo -- The sing-song girl and the nation: music and media culture in Republican Shanghai / Andrew F. Jones -- Narratives of exile and the search for homeland in contemporary Korean Japanese writings / John Lie -- the regime of authenticity: timelessness, gender, and national history in modern China / Prasenjit Duara