Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of Reimagining the American Pacific.Arif Dirlik is Professor of History at Duke University and the editor of What Is in a Rim?

• Introduction: Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production / Rob Wilson and Arif Dirlik 1Mappings Foundations of the American Image of the Pacific / M. Consuelo LeÓn 17Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years / Christopher L. Connery 30Chemical Weapons Discourse in the "South Pacific" / William A. Callahan and Steve Olive 57Shrinking the Pacific / Lawson Fusao Inada 80Memory / Lawson Fusao Inada 82Turning It Over / Lawson Fusao Inada 84Our Sea of Islands / Epeli Hau'ofa 86Movements Sacred Sites and the City: Urban Aboriginality, Ambivalence, and Modernity / John Fielder 101From the Politics of Identity to an Alternative Cultural Politics: On Taiwan Primoridal Inhabitants' A-systemic Movement / Chiu Yen Liang (Fred) 120Pasts and Futures Cultural Construction and Native Nationalism: Report from the Hawaiin Front / Jeffrey Tobin 147Hawai'i / Haunani-Kay Trask 170Da Mainland to Me / Joseph P. Balaz 175Childhood as Fiction / Subramani 177Three Poems for Kenzaburo Oe / Albert Wendt 204Reading toward the Indigenous Pacific: Patricia Grace's Potiki, a Case Study / Miriam Fuchs 206The Last Frontier: Memories of the Postcolonial Future in Keri Hulme's the bone people / Chris Bongie 226The 747 Poem / Terese Svoboda 250The Little Grass Shack / Terese Svoboda 251Flows The Possibility of Imagination in These Islands / Tsushima Yuko (Translated by Geraldine Harcourt; Introduction by Masao Miyoshi) 255Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia / Leo Ching 262The Hong Kong Immigrant and the Urban Landscape: Shaping the Transnational Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital / Katharyne Mitchell 284Postmodernism and American Cultural Difference: Dispatches, Mystery Train, and The Art of Japanese Management / Thomas Carmichael 311America's Hiroshima, Hiroshima's America / Peter Schwenger and John Whittier Treat 324The Pulling of Olap's Canoe / Theophil Saret Rueney, translator 345Contributors 351Index 355

Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of Reimagining the American Pacific.Arif Dirlik is Professor of History at Duke University and the editor of What Is in a Rim?

• Introduction: Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production / Rob Wilson and Arif Dirlik 1Mappings Foundations of the American Image of the Pacific / M. Consuelo LeÓn 17Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years / Christopher L. Connery 30Chemical Weapons Discourse in the "South Pacific" / William A. Callahan and Steve Olive 57Shrinking the Pacific / Lawson Fusao Inada 80Memory / Lawson Fusao Inada 82Turning It Over / Lawson Fusao Inada 84Our Sea of Islands / Epeli Hau'ofa 86Movements Sacred Sites and the City: Urban Aboriginality, Ambivalence, and Modernity / John Fielder 101From the Politics of Identity to an Alternative Cultural Politics: On Taiwan Primoridal Inhabitants' A-systemic Movement / Chiu Yen Liang (Fred) 120Pasts and Futures Cultural Construction and Native Nationalism: Report from the Hawaiin Front / Jeffrey Tobin 147Hawai'i / Haunani-Kay Trask 170Da Mainland to Me / Joseph P. Balaz 175Childhood as Fiction / Subramani 177Three Poems for Kenzaburo Oe / Albert Wendt 204Reading toward the Indigenous Pacific: Patricia Grace's Potiki, a Case Study / Miriam Fuchs 206The Last Frontier: Memories of the Postcolonial Future in Keri Hulme's the bone people / Chris Bongie 226The 747 Poem / Terese Svoboda 250The Little Grass Shack / Terese Svoboda 251Flows The Possibility of Imagination in These Islands / Tsushima Yuko (Translated by Geraldine Harcourt; Introduction by Masao Miyoshi) 255Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia / Leo Ching 262The Hong Kong Immigrant and the Urban Landscape: Shaping the Transnational Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital / Katharyne Mitchell 284Postmodernism and American Cultural Difference: Dispatches, Mystery Train, and The Art of Japanese Management / Thomas Carmichael 311America's Hiroshima, Hiroshima's America / Peter Schwenger and John Whittier Treat 324The Pulling of Olap's Canoe / Theophil Saret Rueney, translator 345Contributors 351Index 355