Acknowledgement
This essay was first presented at the ‘Reflections and Imaginations: the Tenth Anniversary Symposium for Inter‐Asia Cultural Studies: Movements’, in April 2009, held in Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and later at the pre‐conference panel at the 2009 Inter‐Asia Cultural Typhoon Conference, held in July at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. I wish to thank friends who were present in these two contexts for their discussions.