Choi Chatterjee, California State University, Los Angeles, USAPaul Corner, The University Of Siena, ItalyRoger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University, UKCheehyung Kim, Duke University, USAKyu Hyun Kim, The University Of California, Davis, USAPeter Lambert, Aberystwyth University, UKJie Hyun Lim, Hanyang University In Seoul, KoreaKaren Petrone, The University Of Kentucky, USAHiroko Mizuno, Osaka University, JapanHui-Yu Caroline Ts'ai, The Institute Of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, TaiwanHae-Dong Yun, Hanyang University, Korea

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Mass Dictatorship and the Radical Project for Modernity; M.Kim & M.Schoenhals PART I: RADICAL PROJECTS FOR MODERNIZATION 2. Mass Dictatorship as a Transnational Formation of Modernity; J.Lim 3. Mass Dictatorship and the 'Modernist State'; R.Griffin 4. Nebulous Nexus: Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China; M.Schoenhals 5. Staging the Police: Visual Presentation and Everyday Coloniality; H.C.Ts'ai PART II: THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND MASS DICTATORSHIP 6. Habermas, Fascism and the Public Sphere; P.Corner 7. Total War Mobilization and Transformation of the National Public Sphere in Japan, 1931-1945; K.H.Kim 8. Between Liberalism and National Socialism: The Historical Role of Voluntary Firemen Associations in Austria as a Public Sphere; H.Mizuno 9. Colonial Publicness as Metaphor; H.Yun 10. The Colonial Public Sphere and the Discursive Mechanism of Mindo; M.Kim PART III: MODERN SUBJECTIFICATION AND AGENCY 11. Models of Selfhood and Subjectivity: The Soviet Case in Historical Perspective; C.Chatterjee & K.Petrone 12. The End of the Weimar Republic: Individual Agency, Germany's 'Old Elites' and the 'Crisis of Classical Modernity'; P.Lambert 13. Total, Thus Broken: Chuch'e Sasang and North Korea's Terrain of Subjectivity; C.Kim Index