Introduction : the search for meaning in defeat and victory / Barak Kushner
section 1. Collaboration and dilemmas of deimperialization. The politics of collaboration in post-liberation Southern Korea / Mark E. Caprio
Punishing Han traitors beyond Chinese borders / Yun Xia
Colonial legacies, war memories, and political violence in Taiwan, 1945-1947 / Victor Louzon
Bullets of a defeated nation : the 1946 Shibuya Incident / Adam Cathcart
section 2. Negotiating past and present in the military and political realms. The repatriation of surrendered Japanese troops, 1945-1947 / Rotem Kowner
Ordered to disarm, encouraged to rearm : Japan's struggles with the postwar / Garren Mulloy
Politics in a fallen empire : Kishi Nobusuke and the making of the conservative hegemony in Japan / Andrew Levidis
section 3. Returning to the continent, Japan's relations with new China. Diplomatic salvation : Buddhist exchanges and Sino-Japanese rapprochement / Lauren Richardson and Gregory Adam Scott
Reconstructing Sino-Japanese friendship : East Asian literary camaraderie in postwar Japan's Sinitic poetry scene / Matthew Fraleigh.