East-West Montage: Reflections on Asian Bodies in Diaspora

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Index Index / 295 Acephale, 57–58 Adler, Shelley, 220–221, 222 Adorno, Theodor, xiv–xv Aho, James, 5 Akira, 98, 99–100, 105, 106 Althusser, Louis, 41, 45 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 189–190 amputees, 32–36 Ang, Ien, 114 Animatrix, 10, 107 anime. See atom dialectic in Japanese anime Annaud, Jean-Jacques, 144, 204, 207–208, 214 anus. See body as waste in Japanese American internment literature; w/hole of Asia and Christian West apocalypse, 3–9, 261n4 Apocalypse Now, 56–57, 145 Asian American studies, xvii–xxi, 245 atom dialectic in Japanese anime, 97–109; female bodies in, 102–105; Godzilla movies compared, 97, 98–99, 105; plot composition, 98–102; stylized Western features in, 98, 102–103; Techno-Orientalism and Chinoiserie, 103, 105–107; traditional Japanese art compared, 98, 105; Western adaptation of, 107–109 Bakhtin, M., xiv, 51 bamboo in kung fu films, 62, 64–65, 68–69, 72, 75 Bao Lor, 228 Barrie, J. M., 33 Barthes, Roland, xi, 106, 267n11 bastardy in Korean Wave, 130–140 Bataille, Georges, xiv, 3, 12, 39, 42, 57–59, 199, 200, 219 Baudrillard, Jean, 43 Baum, Frank, 239 Bei Dao, 82 Beijing Opera style in kung fu films, 61, 62, 63, 67 Bertolluci, Bernardo, 144, 203–204, 207, 209, 210–214 Bhabha, Homi, xxi, 51 Bible, xiii, xvi–xviii, 3–9, 41, 100, 101 Big Sleep, The, 18–19 Blackhawk comics, 157–185; additional minority characters, introduction of, 180–181; comic relief, Chop Chop as, 157–166; costume in, 160–162, 168–172; DC Comics editions, 1955–1977, 166–172; DC Comics editions, 1982–1984, 172–178; DC Comics editions, 1987–1990, 178–185; martial metaphors used to transform Chop Chop character, 172–176; Military Comics editions, 158–162; Modern Comics editions, 162–166; physical transformation of Chop Chop, 167–168, 172; sexuality in, 181–185; story basis of, 158–160; value of studying, 157–158; Weng Chan, 178–185; Wu Cheng, metamorphosis of Chop Chop into, 176–178 blood, 39–41 296 / Index body, the, xxii–xxiii body as waste in Japanese American internment literature, 22–36; amputees, 32–36; disability and deformity, 22–23, 32–33; existential puke, 23–25, 28; Maoist manure, 23, 28–31; shit, Japanese, 23–31 bound feet, 191–196, 199–200 Brecht, Bertolt, 10 Bresson, Robert, 79, 80 Broken Blossoms, 17 Brooks, Peter, 129 Brown, Norman O., xxii, 3, 5 brush and blade, dichotomy and attraction of, 39–42 Burchett, Rick, 180, 182 camp scatology. See body as waste in Japanese American internment literature Camus, Albert, 24 Caniff, Milton, 159, 160, 184 cannibalism, 54 Capra, Frank, 204, 206, 207 Celan, Paul, 217 Chandler, Raymond, 18, 19 Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha, 199 Chang Xiong, 228 Chan, Jackie, 60, 61, 75 Chaykin, Howard, 178, 181, 184 Chen Chi-Li, 65 Chen Duxiu, 249 Chen, Joan, 81, 82, 95 Chen Jo-hsi, 29, 82, 83–84, 89, 243–244 Cheung, Ming, 115 Chia Kua Xiong, 226 Chiang Kai-shek, 159 Chiba, Sonny, 109 Chinatown, 20–21 Chinatown in film: Flower Drum Song, 143, 144, 147, 148, 150–151; Godzilla movies, 105; Japanese anime, 105–107; w/hole of Asia and Christian West, 17–21 Chin, Frank, xx, 189 Cho, Margaret, 271n2 Chop Chop. See Blackhawk comics “chopsticks” musicals, 143–156; East-West spatial relationships in, 147–151; English teacher characters, 144–147; Flower Drum Song, 143, 144, 147, 148, 150–151, 153–155; The King and I, 143–149, 151, 155; mixed-race stars employed in, 153–154; music of, 154–156; “mutt” teases in, 151–154; predecessors of, 155–156; South Pacific, 143–147, 149–152, 155 Chow, Rey, 9, 53 Chow, Stephen, 46 Chow Yun-Fat, 61, 70, 73, 75 Chow Yun-fat, 144 Christianity. See Bible; w/hole of Asia and Christian West Chua Ben Huat, 120, 127 Chu, Judy, 242 Chunhyang, 118, 134 Clavell, James, 47, 48, 49 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 13 colonial acephalism and swordplay, 39–42, 49, 51–59 Conrad, Joseph, 39, 48, 51, 54, 56, 57, 145, 189, 212 Coppola, Francis Ford, 7, 56–57, 145, 205 cosmetic surgery of actors in Korean Wave, 125–126, 130 Craig, Mary, 208, 209 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 40, 45, 60, 70–75, 115 Dae Jang Kum, 133–134 Dai, Catherine, 199 Dai Sijie, 81, 82, 88 Dalai Lama, xxiii, 144–145, 202–203, 205, 207–210 Dances with Wolves, 47, 48 death and feces, 5–6 death of a thousand cuts, 58–59 [18.190.217.134] Project...