Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Note on Romanizations and Translation; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Taiwan and Korea in Tandem; Toward De-Colonization and "De-Cold Warring"; Bibliography; Part I Colonial Romance and Its Postwar Metamorphosis; Chapter 2 Coining the Ideal Woman in Love/Marriage Fiction from Colonial Taiwan; Fengyuebao as a Site of Love/Marriage Discourse; Xu Kunquan's Characterization of "Modern" Ideal Womanhood; Wu Mansha's Polarized Portrait of Modeng Women and New Women
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Chapter 5 From the Detective to the Romance Genre: Popular Fiction in Postcolonial KoreaKim Naesŏng and His Literary Work; Detective Fiction as Popular Literature in the Colonial Period; Romantic Love and Family; Transition from the Colonial to the Postcolonial: Consumerism and Colonial Privilege; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part II Cinematic Nationalism and Melodrama in the Colonial and Postwar Eras; Chapter 6 The Production of Imperialized Bodies: Colonial Taiwan's Film Regulations and Propaganda Films; Film Regulations of Wartime Taiwan; The Changeable "Us" and "Others" Inside the Empire
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Chapter 8 Militarism, Enlightenment, and Colonial Korean CinemaPeriodization of Korean Film Under Japanese Rule and Cinema for Enlightenment; Homeless Angels; Film Censorship in Colonial Korea; Volunteer; Love and Vow; Portrait of Youth and Suicide Squad at the Watchtower; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 9 The Spectacle of Affect: Postwar South Korean Melodrama Films; An Incomplete Cinematic Golden Age and Its Melodramas; Postwar South Korean Melodrama as a Hybrid Narrative; The Empty Mise-En-Scène; The Decade of Sinp'a; Conclusion; Bibliography
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Hyperbolic, Melodramatic RhetoricConclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3 The Epic and the Alternative: Romance in Postcolonial Taiwan; The Literary Field of Early Postwar Taiwan; An Epic Romance: Wang Lan's Synthesis of Love and War; A Banned Modernist Attempt: Guo Lianghui and Her The Locked Heart; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Claiming Colonial Masculinity: Sex and Romance in Ch'ae Mansik's Colonial Fiction; Korean-Japanese Intermarriage and Its Effect/Affect; Erotic Desire and Japanese Women in "Transition"; Mysterious Japanese Woman in Frozen Fish; Conclusion; Bibliogrpahy
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The Demand for Imperial(ized) Male Bodies in Wartime TaiwanThe Production of Imperialized Body in Films; Contradiction Between the Imperialized Body and Mind in Taiwanese Literature; Bibliography; Chapter 7 The National Anthem Film in the Early 1950s Taiwan; KMT Film Regulations in the 1950s; "Us" and "Others" Inside Taiwan: Censorship Regulations; "Us" and "Others" Inside Taiwan: Propaganda Regulations; "Us" and "Others" Inside of the "Ideal" ROC; Establishing the Program of the National Anthem Film; The Content and Reception of the National Anthem Film; Conclusion; Bibliography
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This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre, state regulation, and spectatorship. Calling for the "de-colonializing" and "de-Cold Warring" of the two ex-colonies and anticommunist allies, the book places Taiwan and Korea side by side in a "trans-war" frame. Considering Taiwan-Korea relations along a new trans-war axis, the book focuses on the continuities between the late colonial period's Asia-Pacific War and the consequent Korean War and the ongoing conflict between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, facilitated by Cold War power struggles. The collection also invites a meaningful transcolonial reconsideration of East Asian cultural and literary flows, beyond the conventional colonizer/colonized dichotomy and ideological antagonism.