In Transit: The Formation of a Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere

Contents

v Contents Acknowledgments | vii Introduction: Modernity, Colonialism, and the Formation of a Cultural Empire | 1 Part I: Friends or Foes: Early Phases of Pan-Asianism | 19 1 Miyazaki Tōten: The Last Revolutionary Rebel | 21 The Genesis of Japanese Pan-Asian Thought | 24 Articulating a Prototypical Pan-Asian Romantic Nationalism | 26 Contextualizing Meiji Orality: From Political Activist to Naniwabushi Performer | 32 Conclusion | 41 2 Kawahara Misako: Daughter, Teacher, Good Wife, Wise Mother, and Spy | 44 Women at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | 45 Self-Reflexive Observer and Imperial Traveler | 56 Imperial Eyes: Kawahara the Spy | 65 The Falling Flower of Northern Manchuria | 71 Conclusion | 75 Part II: Narrating Self, Narrating Nation | 77 3 History, Memory, and (Auto)biography | 79 Private Body and Public Deployment | 85 The Anti-Fairy Tale: The Last Princess of Korea | 88 Becoming Korean—“I live without regret as a Korean” | 96 Till Death Us Do Part | 99 Conclusion | 106 4 Gender, Ethnicity, and the Spectacles of the Empire | 108 In the Name of the Fathers | 111 Kawashima Yoshiko | 114 Performing Gender and Ethnicity | 118 Cultural In-Between | 132 vi | Contents Silence and Articulation, or Tales of Two Yoshikos | 138 Conclusion | 146 Part III: The Cartography of Desire and Self-Realization | 155 5 Colonial Women and the Primitive: Masugi Shizue and Sakaguchi Reiko | 157 Modernism and Colonial Interaction in Modern Japanese Literature | 161 The Woman Who Escaped the Colony: Masugi Shizue (1901–1965) | 164 The Woman Who Was Seduced by the Colony: Sakaguchi Reiko (1914–2007) | 170 Civilizing the Barbaric and Colonial Biopolitics | 173 Conclusion | 184 6 Dancers of the Empire | 186 Ishii Baku: Body (Language) and Modernity | 190 To the Colonies: Encounters with the Muses | 195 Cosmopolitanism and the Mark of Ethnicity | 197 Bonded Bodies and the Cold War Mentality | 206 Conclusion | 209 Notes | 211 Glossary | 239 Bibliography | 249 Index | 279 ...