Part 1. -- He's a South Korean when he's running with you, and he's a North Korean when he's running after you : military orientalism and military humanitarianism -- "Tan Yanks" and Black Korea : military multiculturalism and race war in cinema -- Military orientalism and the intimacies of collaboration : sacrifice and the construction of the Nisei citizen-soldier as a model minority -- Picture Koreans : the age of the world target and humanitarian orientalism

Part 2. -- Angels of mercy and the angel of history : the disfiguring of humanitarian orientalism -- "Bled in, letter by letter" : postmemory and the subject of Korean War history -- The racial borderlands of the Korean War -- The intimacies of complicity -- Conclusion: "The delicate chains of war

The Intimacies of Conflict explores cultural memory and the Korean War