This volume draws together some of the leading scholars in the field to examine how Marxism was interpreted in East Asia, how it had its effects on the complex historical processes in East Asian countries.

Introduction Marxism, Space, Time and East Asia

[Viren MURTHY & Joyce C. H. LIU]

Part I Perspectives of Capital: Universality, Particularity and Temporality

(1) Deprovincializing Marx: Reflections on a Cultural Dominant

[Harry HAROOTUNIAN]

(2) Marx, Temporality, and Modernity -

[Moishe POSTONE]

(3) Two Kinds of New Poor and Their Future

[WANG Hui]

(4) On the simultaneous World Revolution

[KARATANI Kojin]

Part II Trajectories of Marxisms in Japan, China and Korea

(1) Historical Difference and the Question of East Asian Marxism

[Max WARD]

(2) Value without Fetish - Problematizing Uno Kozo's Reading of the Value Form

[Elena Louisa LANGE]

(3) Compradors: The Mediating Middle of Capitalism in Twentieth Century China and the World

[Rebecca KARL]

(4) A Vast Crucible of Electric Flame": The Collapse of Liberal Society in Shanghai and the Rise of the Masses

[Jake WERNER]

(5) Paradoxical Routes of the Sinification of Marxism

[Joyce C. H. LIU]

(6) The Formation and the Limits of the People's Democracy: A Critical History of Contemporary South Korean Marxism

[Seung-wook BAEK]

(7) Imagining Asia/Provincializing Marxism: Takeuchi Yoshimi and His Transnational Afterlives

[Viren MURTHY]

Joyce C.H. Liu is Professor of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Viren Murthy teaches Transnational Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and researches Chinese and Japanese Intellectual History.