Table of Contents
Introduction, Peng Hsiao-yen and Whitney Crothers Dilley Part I. Adaptation as translation, betrayal, or consumption 1. Montage of attractions: juxtaposing Lust/Caution, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh 2. Two versions of Se∣Jie: fiction and film - views from a common reader, Cecile Chu-chin Sun 3. Sado-masochism, steamy sex, and Shanghai glitter: what’s love got to do with it? - a ‘philologist’ looks at Lust/Caution and the literary texts that inspired it, Jon Eugene von Kowallis 4. Cannibal, class, betrayal: Eileen Chang and Ang Lee, Darrell William Davis Part II: Eros, subjectivity, and collective memory 5. Eros impossible and eros of the impossible in Lust/Caution: the Shanghai lady/baby in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hsiang-Yin Sasha Chen 6. Self as performance, lust as betrayal in the theatre of war, Susan Daruvala 7. The "real" Wang Jiazhi: taboo, transgression, and truth in Lust/Caution, Whitney Crothers Dilley Part III: Identity politics and global cultural economy 8. Becoming noir, Kien Ket Lim 9. Woman as metaphor: how Lust/Caution re/deconstructs history, Peng Hsiao-yen 10. The transnational affect: cold anger, hot tears, and Lust/Caution, Chang Hsiao-hung