Legitimacy and community : traveling writers and texts in post-1945 East Asia / Karen Thorber -- Introduction to Three Asias--Japan / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The melancholy melodrama of "honorary whiteness" : the case of Yuasa Katsuei's colonial fiction / Mary A. Knighton -- From parody to simulacrum : Japanese SF, regionalism and the inauthentic in the early works of Komatsu Sakyō and Tsutsui Yasutaka / William O. Gardner -- The transpacific gaze in The tropic of orange / Gale K. Sato -- Japan/America, man/woman : gender and identity politics in Adriane Tomine and Yoshihiro Tatsumi / Rebecca Suter -- Review of Mechademia 4: war/time / Colleen Montgomery -- Review of The anime machine: a media theory of animation / Colleen Montgomery -- Review of Sublime voices: the fictional science and scientific fiction of Abe Kobo / Tadashi Nagasawa -- Review of Robot ghosts and wired dreams / Ebihara Yutaka -- Review of Ogawa Issui's The lord of the sands of time / Deborah Shamoon -- Introduction to Three Asias--S. Korea / Jina Kim -- S. Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook : interview and reflections on Sympathy for Lady Vengeance / Aryong Choi -- Review of The South Korean film renaissance: local hitmakers, global provocateurs / Yun Mi Hwang -- Review of East Asian pop culture: analysing the Korean wave / Jung-yup Lee -- Review of Yellow future: Oriental style in Hollywood cinema / Susan Napier -- Introduction to Three Asias--China / Zhang Zhen -- Historical tensions in East Asian popular culture and the roles of the state / Kwai-Cheung Lo -- Hong Kong cinema as community : the case of Eric Sang / Laikwan Pang -- Disrobing CCTV : scandals, e'gao, and resistance in China's cyberspace / Ruoyun Bai -- "Hip hop is my knife, rap is my sword" / Ying Xiao -- From Venice to Beijing : art, politics and commerce / Xiaoping Lin