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Editorial

 
 

Editorial Foreword

KMG

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 361-364
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000636 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Research Articles

 
 

Power Made Visible: Photography and Postwar Japan's Elusive Reality

Julia Adeney Thomas

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 365-394
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000648 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Cosmopolitan Visions: Ethnic Chinese and the Photographic Imagining of Indonesia in the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Periods

Karen Strassler

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 395-432
doi:10.1017/S002191180800065X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Suphanburi in the Fast Lane: Roads, Prestige, and Domination in Provincial Thailand

Yoshinori Nishizaki

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 433-467
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000661 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Vote Buying and Village Outrage in an Election in Northern Thailand: Recent Legal Reforms in Historical Context

Katherine A. Bowie

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 469-511
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000673 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

The Persianization of Itihasa: Performance Narratives and Mughal Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century Bengal

Kumkum Chatterjee

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 513-543
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000685 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

How Chinese Turkestan Became Chinese: Visualizing Zhang Zhizhong's Tianshan Pictorial and Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe

Justin Jacobs

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 545-591
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000697 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Empire of the Chinese Sign: The Question of Chinese Diasporic Imagination in Transnational Literary Production

Kuei-Fen Chiu

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 593-620
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000703 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

China Expands Its Courtesy: Saying “Hello” to Strangers

Mary S. Erbaugh

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 621-652
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000715 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Review Essays—Japan

 
 

Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change. By Jennifer A. Amyx. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xix, 365 pp. $57.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985–2000. By William W. Grimes. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xix, 254 pp. $22.95 (paper).

Japan's Fiscal Crisis: The Ministry of Finance and the Politics of Public Spending, 1975–2000. By Maurice Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv, 631 pp. $245.00 (cloth).

Crisis or Recovery in Japan: State and Industrial Economy. Edited by David Bailey, Dan Coffey, and Phil Tomlinson. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2007. ix, 224 pp. $110.00 (cloth).

Japan's Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for Advanced Economies. Edited by Michael M. Hutchison and Frank Westermann. CESifo Seminar Series. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. vi, 276 pp. $37.50 (cloth).

Mark Metzler

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 653-666
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000727 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Review Essays—Southeast Asia

 
 

Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia. By Zachary Abuza. Asia Security Studies. New York: Routledge, 2007. x, 162 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia. By John T. Sidel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. xviii, 279 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper).

Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia: Small Town Wars. By Gerry van Klinken. Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series no. 15. New York: Routledge, 2007. xxiv, 180 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Robert W. Hefner

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 667-674
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000739 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

 
 

Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia: Organizing between Family and State. Edited by Robert P. Weller. New York: Routledge, 2005. xiii, 201 pp. $170.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper).

Elana Chipman

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 675-676
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000740 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Book Reviews—China

 
 

Gender and Education in China: Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century. By Paul J. Bailey. New York: Routledge, 2006. x, 246 pp. $160.00 (cloth).

Joan Judge

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 677-678
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000752 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism. By James A. Benn. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xiii, 362 pp. $48.00 (cloth).

Wendi Adamek

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 678-681
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000764 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song. By Hugh R. Clark. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2007. xiv, 473 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Lucille Chia

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 681-683
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000776 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man's Journey. By Constance A. Cook. Leiden: Brill, 2006. viii, 296 pp. $146.00 (cloth).

Colin Mackenzie

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 683-685
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000788 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry. By Gloria Davies. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. x, 312 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Haun Saussy

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 685-686
doi:10.1017/S002191180800079X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949. By Vincent Goossaert. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xv, 395 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Xun Liu

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 687-689
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000806 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics. By Ming Dong Gu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xiv, 334 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Karin Myhre

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 689-690
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000818 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. By Ching Kwan Lee. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 325 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Calvin Chen

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 691-692
doi:10.1017/S002191180800082X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou. By Steven B. Miles. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xviii, 450 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Micah S. Muscolino

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 692-694
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000831 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture. By Lisa Rofel. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 264 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Yan Hairong

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 694-695
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000843 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality. Edited by Vivienne Shue and Christine Wong. New York: Routledge, 2007. xii, 195 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Kellee S. Tsai

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 696-697
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000855 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China. By Susan Trevaskes. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xi, 227. $70.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Harold M. Tanner

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 697-699
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000867 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Regulating Land and Pollution in China: Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement; Theory and Cases. By Benjamin van Rooij. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2006. xiv, 451 pp. $79.50 (paper).

Randy Peerenboom

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 699-700
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000879 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948. By Yan Haiping. New York: Routledge, 2006. xx, 299 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Xueping Zhong

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 701-703
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000880 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

The Chan Interpretations of Wang Wei's Poetry: A Critical Review, by Yang Jingqing. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Fusheng Wu

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 703-705
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000892 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature. By Judith T. Zeitlin. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. 296 pp. $57.00 (cloth).

Chloë Starr

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 705-706
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000909 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

 
 

The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1967–69: A Function of Language, Power and Violence. By Kerry Brown. Folkstone, Kent, U.K.: Global Oriental, 2006. 162 pp. £50.00 (cloth).

Justin Tighe

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 707-708
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000910 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Landscapes Reflected in Old Mongolian Maps. Edited by Futaki Hiroshi and Kamimura Akira. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2005. viii, 216 pp., with CD-ROM.

György Kara

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 709-710
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000922 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

A History of Modern Tibet. Vol. 2, The Calm Before the Storm, 1951–1955. By Melvyn C. Goldstein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xxx, 674 pp. o$60.00 (cloth).

Ho-fung Hung

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 710-712
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000934 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Kālacakra and the Tibetan Calendar. By Edward Henning. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xv, 391 pp. $49.00 (cloth).

Brian Baumann

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 712-714
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000946 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–1949. By Hsiao-ting Lin. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 2006. xv, 285 pp. $32.95 (paper).

Yudru Tsomu

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 715-716
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000958 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Vol. 5, A Grammar of Lepcha. By Heleen Plaisier. Leiden: Brill, 2007. 272 pp. $139.00 (cloth).

David Bradley

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 717-719
doi:10.1017/S002191180800096X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Book Reviews—Japan

 
 

Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing. Edited by Rebecca L. Copeland. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. x, 281 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

Miho Matsugu

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 720-722
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000971 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan. By Miyako Inoue. Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press, 2006. xvii, 340 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Harald Fuess

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 722-724
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000983 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond. Edited by Morris Low. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiv, 242 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Terry Jackson

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 724-726
doi:10.1017/S0021911808000995 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler. Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press, 2005. xxiv, 370 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

David V. Tucker

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 726-729
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001009 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Deconstructing Nationality. Edited by Naoki Sakai, Brett de Bary, and Iyotani Toshiyo. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2005. xv, 256 pp. $62.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Aya Matsushima

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 729-730
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001010 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. By Miriam Silverberg. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xviii, 369 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Louise Young

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 731-733
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001022 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Zen at War. 2nd edition. By Brian Daizen Victoria. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xvi, 285 pp. $76.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Gerald Scott Iguchi

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 733-735
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001034 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Book Reviews—Korea

 
 

The War for Korea, 1945–1950: A House Burning. By Allan R. Millett. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xviii, 324 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Their War for Korea: American, Asian, and European Combatants and Civilians, 1945–1953. By Allan R. Millett. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2002. $25.95 (cloth).

Donald N. Clark

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 735-738
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001058 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Book Reviews—South Asia

 
 

In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. By Sadhana Naithani. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xi, 328 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Beth Norford

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 738-740
doi:10.1017/S002191180800106X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Casting Kings: Bards and Indian Modernity. By Jeffrey G. Snodgrass. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxii, 226 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Jason Freitag

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 740-742
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001071 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

 
 

Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World. By Joel S. Kahn. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. 224 $28.00 (paper).

Rita Smith Kipp

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 742-743
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001083 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali. By J. Stephen Lansing. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii, 225 $37.95 (cloth).

Karl G. Heider

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 744-745
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001095 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. Edited by Thomas A. Reuter. New York: Routledge, 2003. 222 $190.00 (cloth).

Christian C. Lentz

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 745-747
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001101 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Women Shaping Islam: Reading the Qur'an in Indonesia. By Pieternella van Doorn-Harder. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 236 $27.00 (cloth).

Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 747-749
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001113 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
 

Erratum

 
 

Erratum

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 02, May 2008, pp 751-751
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001125 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 May 2008
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