1. Introduction / Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden -- SOCIETY. -- 2. Hokkien-Philippines familial transnationalism, 1949-1975 / Edgar Wickberg -- 3. On eating Chinese: diasporic agency and the Chinese Canadian restaurant menu / Lily Cho -- 4. Putting the nation back into the transnational: Chinese self-fashioning and discipline in Singapore / Philip Holden -- LITERATURE. -- 5. Trans-East Asian literature: language and displacement in Hong Ying, Hikaru Okuizumi, and Yi Mun-yol / Kristjana Gunnars -- 6. Cultural and culinary ambivalence in Sara Chin, Evelina Galang, and Yoko Tawada / Petra Fuchinger -- 7. "The Tao is up": intertextuality and cultural dialogue in Tripmaster monkey / Jane Parish Yang -- 8. Overseas Chinese literature: a proposal for clarification / Laifong Leung -- FILM. -- 9. Crouching tiger hidden dragon: (re)packaging Chinas and selling the hybridized culture in an age of transnationalism / Jennifer W. Jay -- 10. Father knows best: reading sexuality in Ang Lee's The wedding banquet and Chay Yew's Porcelain / January Lim -- 11. The cinema of Tsai Ming-liang: a modernist genealogy / Mark Betz -- 12. Sentimental returns: on the uses of the everyday in the recent films of Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai / Rey Chow.