This book highlights the many points of contact and conflict about culture and identity that exist between Europe and the Asia Pacific.

Stephanie Lawson is a Professor of International Relations at the University of East Anglia. She is author of two books and many articles and chapters on comparative and international politics, focusing mainly on Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific encompassing normative issues to do with culture, nationalism, ethnicity, democracy and human rights.

1. Stephanie Lawson Culture, Identity and Representations of Region 2. John Clammer Europe on Asia's Imaginary: Disciplinary Knowledges and the (Mis)Representation of Cultures 3. Michael S. Drake Representing 'Old Countries': The Strategic Representaion of Culture as Heritage in the Asia-Europe Summit Meetings 4. Julie Gilson Making Uncommon Cause: Forging Identities on the Margins of ASEM 5. Philomena Murray Lack of Symmetry, Lack of Summitry: The European Union in Australia 6. David Lockwood Europe in the Asia-Pacific: the Russian Far East Faces its Future 7. Lee Marsden Northern Territories or Southern Kuriles: A Question of Identity 8. Dirk Nabers Security Communities in East Asia and Europe: German and Japanese Politics of Alliance 9. Judith Mehta An In/alienable Narrative? Property Rights in China and the West 10. Red Chan Stories of Representaion: Translating China in the 1980s and 1990s 11. Taku Tamaki Constructing 'Japan in Asia' 12. Doug Slaymaker Yokomitsu Riichi and the Longing for Home in the Japanese Imagination of France 13. Nicole Rousmaniere and Simon Kaner Collecting East Asia in Nineteenth-Century Britain 14. Minou Reeves The Enduring Power of Stereotypes: Images of Islam in Western Writings 15. Stephanie Lawson The Politics of Cultural Identity: Critical Perspectives from Southeast Asia and the South Pacific