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Observing that the division between theory and empiricism remains inextricably linked to imperial modernity, manifest at the most basic level in the binary between “the West” and “Asia,” the authors of this volume re-examine art and aesthetics to challenge these oppositions in order to reconceptualize politics and knowledge production in East Asia. Current understandings of fundamental ideas like race, nation, colonizer and the colonized, and the concept of Asia in the region are seeped with imperial aesthetics that originated from competing imperialisms operating in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Such aesthetics has sustained both colonial and local modes of perception in the formation of nation-states and expanded the reach of regulatory powers in East Asia since 1945. The twelve thought-provoking essays in this collection tackle the problematics that arise at the nexus of aesthetics and politics in four areas: theoretical issues of aesthetics and politics in East Asia, aesthetics of affect and sexuality, the productive tension between critical aesthetics and political movements, and aesthetic critiques of sovereignty and neoliberalism in East Asia today.

If the seemingly universal operation of capital and militarism in East Asia requires locally specific definitions of biopolitical concepts to function smoothly, this book critiques the circuit of power between the universalism of capital and particularism of nation and culture. Treating aesthetic experiences in art at large as the bases for going beyond imperial categories, the contributors present new modes of sensing, thinking, and living that have been unimaginable within the mainstream modality of Asian studies, a discipline that has reproduced the colonial regime of knowledge production. By doing so, Beyond Imperial Aesthetics illuminates the aesthetic underside of critical theory to uncover alternative forms of political life in East Asia.

Mayumo Inoue is associate professor of American, Japanese, and comparative literatures in the Graduate School of Language and Society at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. Steve Choe is associate professor of critical studies in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Theorizing beyond Imperial Aesthetics in East Asia 1 Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe
I. Beyond Boundaries: Theorizing Aesthetics in East Asia since 1945
1. Asian Theory and European Humanity: On the Question of Anthropological Difference 23 Naoki Sakai
2. Cold War Aesthetics in East Asia 52 Petrus Liu
3. The Turn to Japan and Return to War 77 Akira Mizuta Lippit
II. Politics of the Sensuous: Love, Bodies, and Sexuality in East Asia
4. Male Sexuality in the Colony: On Toyokawa Zen’ichi’s Searchlight 97 Ikuo Shinjo
5. The Grain of Jade: Woman, Repression, and Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town 116 Rey Chow
6. Corpo-reality in the Hong Kong New Wave 125 Chang-Min Yu
III. Disjunctive Alignments: Critical Aesthetics and Social Movements in East Asia
7. On the Form’s Edge: Adaniya Masayoshi’s Abstract Paintings and Biopolitics in US-Occupied Okinawa 147 Mayumo Inoue
8. Reconciling the Animal and the City in Photography: Kim Kichan’s Works in 1970s Korea 174 Youngjune Lee
9. Performing Absence, Translating “China”: Disrupted History and Performative Identity in Stan Lai’s Xiangsheng Plays 193 Chun-yen Wang
IV. Beyond Neoliberal Borders: From Biopolitical Spaces to an Affective Community
10. Tange Lab and Biopolitics: From the Geopolitics of the Living Sphere to the Nervous System of the Nation 219 Yuriko Furuhata
11. Multitemporality between Sovereignty and Neoliberal Governmentality: A Single Spark and The Old Garden 243 Jecheol Park
12. The Affective Multitude: Toward a Transcultural Meaning of Enlightenment 263 Jon Solomon
List of Contributors 293
Index 296
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