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Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 383401, 2010 Nostalgia, place, and making peace with modernity in East Asia MARGARET HILLENBRAND Nostalgia is a notoriously slippery concept, and this, of course, is why people try so hard to theorize it in ways that hold fast. For Dai Jinhua, it is the ascendant fashion of the fin-de-sie`cle;1 whereas for Hao Zaijin it is a ‘movement that dare not speak its name’.2 Svetlana Boym’s seminal study makes the sentiment Janus-faced, sometimes ‘restorative’ and sometimes