This anthology critically re-examines and re-articulates the discursive boundary that binds the region called East Asia in order to produce Trans-Pacific Studies. Recognizing that the creation of regional boundaries depends on a new configuration of both inter- and intra-national power relations and the ideological constructs that generate historical, ideological, and cultural effects, this volume proposes that the term “trans-Pacific” be mobilized to complicate the phrase “East Asian” as the boundary of academic discipline and socio-cultural discourse. The anthology also examines the historical conditions under which “East Asia” was constructed as an area and the trans-Pacific directives that nurtured the sense of nationality in each component nation of East Asia.With the contribution of: Sun Ge (The Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences); Soyoung Kim (Korean National University of Arts); Hyoduk Lee (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University); Lisa Lowe (University of California); Tessa Morris-Suzuki (The Australian National University); Naoki Sakai (Cornell University), Yuko Shibata (Saint John's University); Annmaria Shimabuku (University of California); Ikuo Shinjou (University of the Ryukyus); Hyon Joo Yoo (University of Vermont).Contents:Introduction: The Trans-Pacific Imagination — Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society (Naoki Sakai and Hyon Joo Yoo)Towards a Transnational History of Victimhood Nationalism: On the Trans-Pacific Space (Jie-Hyun Lim)The Trans-Pacific Migrant and Area Studies (Lisa Lowe)Imprinting the Empire: Western Artists and the Persistence of Colonialism in East Asia (Tessa Morris-Suzuki)The Political Formation of the Homoerotics and the Cold War: The Battle of Gazes at and from Okinawa (Ikuo Shinjou)Securing Okinawa for Miscegenation: Gender and Trans-Pacific Empire of the United States and Japan (Annmaria Shimabuku)The Politics of Postcoloniality and the Literature of “Being-in-Japan” (Zainichi) (Hyoduk Lee)The Incurable Feminine: Women Without a Country in East Asian Cinema (Hyon Joo Yoo)Inter-Asia Comparative Framework: Postcolonial Film Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea (Soyoung Kim)Postcolonial Hiroshima, Mon Amour: Franco–Japanese Collaboration in the American Shadow (Yuko Shibata)Reconceptualizing “East Asia” in the Post-Cold War Era (Sun Ge)Trans-Pacific Studies and the US–Japan Complicity (Naoki Sakai)Readership: Students and professionals; scholars of Asian Studies, gender studies and film studies.