"With a new preface by the author"--Cover. First printing in paperback 2002"--T.p. verso. Originally published as hbk. 1999 with subtitle: Making sense of American-East Asian relations at the end of the century.

Archaeology, descent, emergence : American mythology and East Asian reality -- East wind, rain, red wind, black rain : the United States-Japan war, beginning and end -- Colonial formations and deformations : Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam -- Civil society and democracy in the United States and East Asia -- Nuclear imbalance of terror : the American surveillance regime and North Korea's nuclear program -- The world shakes China -- Boundary displacement : the State, the foundations, and international and area studies during and after the Cold War -- East Asia and the United States : double vision and hegemonic emergence.