Introduction: Overcoming Empire, Sherzod Muminov (University of East Anglia, UK) 1. Trapped between Imperial Ruins: Internment and Repatriation of the Taiwanese in Postwar Asia-Pacific, Shi-chi Mike Lan (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) 2. China's Refugees: Postwar 'Foreigners' and the Attempt at International Aid, 1945-1956, Meredith Oyen (University of Maryland, USA) 3. Early Narratives of Japan's Korean War, Samuel Perry (Brown University, USA) 4. Reconstructing Architectural Memories of the Japanese Empire in South Korea, Hyun Kyung Lee (Seoul National University, South Korea) 5. The Cinematic Reconstruction of East Asia in Postwar Japanese War Films, Dick Stegewerns (University of Oslo, Norway) 6. Anti-Imperialism as Strategy: Masking the Edges of Foreign Entanglements in Civil War-Era China, 1945-1948, Matthew D. Johnson (Taylor's University, Malaysia) 7.

From the Ashes of Empire: The Reconstruction of Manchukuo's Enterprises and the Making of China's Northeastern Industrial Base, 1948-1952, Hirata Koji (University of Cambridge, UK) 8. Empires and Continuity: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service in East Asia, 1950-1955, Chihyun Chang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) 9. Inverted Compensation: Wartime Forced Labor and Post-Imperial Reckoning, Yukiko Koga (Hunter College, USA) 10. Japan, Chemical Warfare and Okunoshima: A Postwar Overview, Arnaud Doglia (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Bibliography Index.