Preface: Everything diverges / Tani E. Barlow -- Introduction: Decency and debasement / William Pietz -- Dreaming of better times: "repetition with a difference" and community policing in China / Michael Dutton -- Constructing Perry's "Chinaman" in the context of Adorno and Benjamin / D.R. Howland -- Redemption and consumption: depicting culture in the 1990s / Dai Jinhua -- Making time: historic preservation and the space of nationality / Marshall Johnson -- Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism / Liu Kang -- The world conception of Japanese social science: the Kōza faction, the Ōtsuka school, and the Uno school of economics / Sugiyama Mitsunobu -- "And they would start again": women and struggle in Korean national literature / You-me Park -- Spring, temporality, and history in Li Dazhao / Claudia Pozzana -- Spring / Li Dazhao -- The probable defeat: preliminary notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Alessandro Russo -- Interpreting revolutionary excess: the Naxalite Movement in India, 1967-1971 / Sanjay Seth -- Marxism, anti-Americanism, and democracy in South Korea: an examination of nationalist intellectual discourse / Gi-Wook Shin -- "Who am I?": questions of voluntarism in the paradigm of socialist alienation / Jin Wang.