TABLE OF CONTENTS
         List of Illustrations ................................................................................... viii
         Acknowledgements .................................................................................... ix
         Chapter One................................................................................................. 1
         Introduction
         Jonathan White
         Section One: Earlier Precedents of Urban and Cultural Connection
         Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 24
         Odysseus and the Phaeacians: The City and the Ocean at the Beginning
         of Western Literature
         John T. Kirby
         Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 42
         The City as Contest Zone: Rhodes and Malta in Early Modern English
         Dramas
         I-Chun Wang
         Chapter Four.............................................................................................. 60
         Contagion and the City: Writing Boston as a Transatlantic City
         in the Early Nineteenth Century
         Susan Oliver
         Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 75
         Slavery Discourse in Rozema’s Mansfield Park:
         Reading between the Lines? Or, Crossing the Red Line?
         Kuo-Jung Chen
         Chapter Six................................................................................................ 96
         Islam in Mozambique: A Not-so-Silent Presence
         Joseph Abraham Levi
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         Chapter Seven.......................................................................................... 122
         The Periphery of Empire: The Japanese Community in Shantou
         (1904-1937)
         Lin-Yi Tseng
         Section Two: Cities of Dispersal and Arrival: Diasporas of the Past
         and Present
         Chapter Eight........................................................................................... 142
         The Forbidden Realm: In Camões’s Footsteps from Lisbon to Macau
         Isabel Morais
         Chapter Nine............................................................................................ 160
         Diasporic London: Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali
         Yu-Cheng Lee
         Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 174
         “Far Shore”: The Post-Apocalyptic Coast in Cormac McCarthy’s
         The Road
         Joseph C. Murphy
         Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 192
         The Bund Burning Upside Down on Water: Shanghai Obscura
         in von Sternberg, Zhang, and Ishiguro
         Sheng-Mei Ma
         Chapter Twelve........................................................................................ 213
         Shared Memory and Cultural Identity of Hoa Refugees after the Republic
         of Vietnam’s Fall
         Heh Jason Huang and Y. Paul Huo
         Chapter Thirteen...................................................................................... 229
         Buddhist Nationalism and Transnationalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s
         The Fifth Book of Peace and Russell Leong’s Phoenix Eyes
         Walter S. H. Lim
         The City and the Ocean vii
         Section Three: After-Reflections
         Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 248
         How Must the Flâneur Change in Order to Read the Twenty-First-Century
         City?
         Jonathan White
         General Bibliography .............................................................................. 265
         Chienhang Liu
         Contributors............................................................................................. 276
         Index........................................................................................................ 280
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