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Collaboration and the Politics of the Twentieth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Prasenjit Duara
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Ang Lee's 2007 movie, Lust, Caution (Se, Jie) based on a short story by Zhang Ailing, is a deeply unsettling exploration of enmity and collaboration filtered through the medium of the erotic. The Chinese head of the Japanese Secret Service in 1942 Shanghai, Mr Yee, develops a sexual relationship with the winsome Mrs Mak who is a secret agent for the resistance and seeks to lure him to his assassination. The film maker skillfully utilizes the torrid sexual encounters between the two to register their ever-changing and volatile feelings of lust, hatred, violence and love.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Special Issue S9: Course Reader No. 9. Japan, China, and Pan-Asianism , January 2013 , pp. 169 - 173
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* Many thanks are due to Haiyan Lee for her astute and helpful comments on the first draft.

1 Timothy Brook, Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass, 2005.

2 See for instance, Prasenjit Duara “The New Imperialism and the Post-Colonial Developmental State: Manchukuo in Comparative Perspective” Japan Focus Jan 30, 2006.

3 Robert Ward, Hong Kong under Japanese occupation, 18-33.

4 See Prasenjit Duara, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern, Rowman & Littlefield, Boulder, Co. 2003, chapters 3 and 4.