Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.

Bernard Wilson teaches at Gakushuin University, Tsuda University, and the University of the Sacred Heart, Japan.

1. Introduction: Resisting Orientalism; Part I: (Neo)Imperial Desire and Re(pro)ductive Stereotypes;2. Masquerade, Mise-en-Scène and Female Harem Desire in Abdul the Damned (1935); 3. Zen and the Art of Cultural Cliché: Three Cinematic Pilgrimages to Japan in the New Millennium; 4. "Putting it My Way, but Nicely": Neocolonialism in Feminist Clothing in Andy Tennant's Anna and the King (1999) and Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I (1956); Part II: East-West Travel and Cultural Translation;5. Steinbeck's East of Eden: Progenitor of Chinese American Intertextual and Intercultural Encounters; 6. "The Impossibility of Knowing": Exoticism and East-West Intersections in the Travel Writings of Victor Segalen; 7. A Passage to the West: Globalization and the Refugee Crisis in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West; 8. "Make the Best of Both Worlds": Utopianism in Aldous Huxley's Island and D. T. Suzuki's Social Thought; 9. Remote Translators: Translational Life Narrative in Edward Seidensticker and Donald Richie; Part III: Re-Orienting National History and Glocalizing Contexts; 10. Rethinking Rural China: Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and the Roots-Searching Movement in a Post-Cultural Revolution Context; 11. China's Orient in Fan de Siècle Culture; 12. Reorienting Sinophone America through "Sinophone Orientalism"; 13. Between Script and Genre: A Space Where East Meets West; Index