Preface: Everything diverges / Tani E. Barlow
Introduction: Decency and debasement / William Pietz
Dreaming of better times: "repetition with a difference" and community policing in China / Michael Dutton
Constructing Perry's "Chinaman" in the context of Adorno and Benjamin / D.R. Howland
Redemption and consumption: depicting culture in the 1990s / Dai Jinhua
Making time: historic preservation and the space of nationality / Marshall Johnson
Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism / Liu Kang
The world conception of Japanese social science: the Kōza faction, the Ōtsuka school, and the Uno school of economics / Sugiyama Mitsunobu
"And they would start again": women and struggle in Korean national literature / You-me Park
Spring, temporality, and history in Li Dazhao / Claudia Pozzana
Spring / Li Dazhao
The probable defeat: preliminary notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Alessandro Russo
Interpreting revolutionary excess: the Naxalite Movement in India, 1967-1971 / Sanjay Seth
Marxism, anti-Americanism, and democracy in South Korea: an examination of nationalist intellectual discourse / Gi-Wook Shin
"Who am I?": questions of voluntarism in the paradigm of socialist alienation / Jin Wang.