| Acknowledgements | vii |
| Preface | ix |
| Introduction. Reading Rey Chow: Visuality, Postcoloniality, Ethnicity, Sexuality | 1 |
ch. One | Rey Chow Reading Postcolonialism and Poststructuralism | 9 |
| In Fidelity to Deconstruction | 15 |
| Rey Chow and the Receptions of Poststructuralism | 18 |
| Derrida's Cat | 18 |
| Poststructuralism Translated | 22 |
| Born in the USA: "French" Poststructuralism | 23 |
| Merely Academic (or) Hyper-Political | 25 |
| The General T-Shirt of Force and Signification | 27 |
| Cultural Studies and "Theory" | 30 |
| Feminist (Language) Differences | 32 |
| Alterity: Don't Even Go There | 33 |
| Disjointed Connections: Postcolonialism and Poststructuralism | 36 |
| Visual Pleasure and Poststructuralism Disciplined | 38 |
| From Poststructuralism to Post-Foundational Thought | 41 |
ch. Two | Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Visual Culture | 43 |
| Introduction: Film as a Cultural Technology | 43 |
| What's the big deal about cinema? Or: What does film "do"? | 47 |
Case Study 1 | Activity, Passivity, Gender and Sexuality | 47 |
| The Commodification of Sex and Ethnicity | 52 |
Case Study 2 | Ethnicity, Sexuality, Identity and Coercive Mimeticism | 53 |
| Visible Space and/as Power | 60 |
ch. Three | Cultural Politics before China; or "the foundation of contemporary cultural studies" | 63 |
| Rey Chow and Cultural Studies | 70 |
| Visualizing Postcolonialism versus Area Studies | 76 |
ch. Four | Rey Chow's Method and the Orientations of Cultural Studies | 87 |
| Introduction: Politics and Cultural Criticism | 87 |
| The Partition of the Pedagogical | 90 |
| Against Satisfying Method | 92 |
| "Postmodern" Aims, Objectives and Outcomes | 94 |
| Training and Event | 97 |
| All that was solid | 101 |
ch. Five | Rey Chow's Cultural Translation | 107 |
| Literal and Non-Literal Translation | 107 |
| The Queerness of Cultural Translation | 128 |
ch. Six | Rey Chow's Alter-Native Conclusions | 139 |
| Cultural Studies after China | 139 |
| Rey Chow after Cultural Studies | 143 |
| Reiter(n)ation | 151 |
| AlterNatives | 154 |
| Notes | 161 |
| Bibliography | 167 |
| Index | 173 |