Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production Book

	Introduction: Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production	1
	Foundations of the American Image of the Pacific	17
	Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years	30
	Chemical Weapons Discourse in the "South Pacific"	57
	Shrinking the Pacific	80
	Memory	82
	Turning It Over	84
	Our Sea of Islands	86
	Sacred Sites and the City: Urban Aboriginality, Ambivalence, and Modernity	101
	From the Politics of Identity to an Alternative Cultural Politics: On Taiwan Primordial Inhabitants' A-systemic Movement	120
	Cultural Construction and Native Nationalism: Report from the Hawaiian Front	147
	Hawaii	170
	Da Mainland to Me	175
	Childhood as a Fiction	177
	Three Poems for Kenzaburo Oe	204
	Reading toward the Indigenous Pacific: Patricia Grace's Potiki: a Case Study	206
	The Last Frontier: Memories of the Postcolonial Future in Keri Hulme's the bone people	226
	The 747 Poem	250
	The Little Grass Shack	251
	The Possibility of Imagination in These Islands	255
	Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia	262
	The Hong Kong Immigrant and the Urban Landscape: Shaping the Transnational Cosmopolitan in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital	284
	Postmodernism and American Cultural Difference: Dispatches, Mystery Train, and The Art of Japanese Management	311
	America's Hiroshima, Hiroshima's America	324
	The Pulling of Olap's Canoe	345
	Contributors	351
	Index	355