"Contributors." Stanley K. Abe, Ien Ang, Chris Berry, Paul Bove, Sung-cheng Yvonne Chang, Rey Chow, Dorothy Ko, Charles Laughlin, Leung Ping-kwan, Kwai-cheung Lo, Christopher Lupke, David Der-wei Wang, Michelle Yeh

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem / Rey Chow 1Narrative Subjectivity and the Production of Social Space in Chinese Reportage / Charles A. Laughlin 26Three Hungry Women / David Der-wei Wang 48Two Discourses on Colonialism: Huang Guliu and Eileen Chang on Hong Kong of the Forties / Leung Ping-Kwan 78Beyond Cultural and National Identities: Current Re-evaluation of the Kominka Literature from Taiwan's Japanese Period / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 99Wang Wenxing and the "Loss" of China / Christopher Lupke 127If China Can Say No, Can China Make Movies? Or, Do Moves Make China? Rethinking National Cinema and National Agency / Chris Berry 159Look Who's Talking: The Politics of Orality in Transitional Hong Kong Mass Culture / Kwai-Cheung Lo 181Bondage in Time: Footbinding and Fashion Theory / Dorothy Ko 199No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky / Stanley K. Abe 227International Theory and the Transnational Critic: China in the Age of Multiculturalism / Michelle Yeh 251Can One Say No to Chineseness: Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm / Ien Ang 281Afterword: The Possibilities of Abandonment / Paul A. Bové 301Index 317Contributors 325