This issue includes eight research articles, a larger number than is typical. This reflects an increase in high-quality manuscripts received by the journal over the past two years.
In broad terms, the articles fall into three categories. The first set of two articles concerns not simply the cultural history of China but questions of historiography that relate to epistemological problems in understanding change and understanding the calibration and nature of time in relation to the past and the future. The second set of three articles, loosely configured, topically centers on colonialism and the dynamics of imperialism, primarily but not exclusively in East Asia. Focusing on Korea, Japan, and French Indochina, these articles highlight cultural imaginaries that crosscut embodied differences, cityscapes, and national boundaries. Together the articles in the second set also examine racist practices that are deeply embodied in the violence of militarized nationalism and the prejudicial articulation of postcolonial...
