New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Volume 9, No. 2, Dec 2007
Articles
Making a Woman From a
Tawaif: Courtesans as Heroes in Hindi Cinema
GREGORY D. BOOTH 1
Self-Refashioning a Plural
Society: Dialogism and Syncretism in Malaysian Post-Colonial Literature
MOHAMMAD A. QUAYUM 27
Islam, Modernity and Western
Influence in Malay Literature: An Analysis of the Employment of Narrative
Devices in Shahnon Ahmad’s TIVI
MOHD. ZARIAT ABDUL RANI 47
Tarrying with the Numinous:
Postmodern Japanese Gothic Stories
ANDREW HOCK SOON NG 65
Wedding Photographs and the
Bridal Gaze in Singapore
SELINA CHING CHAN & SIMIN XU 87
The United Nations and the
North Korean Missile and Nuclear Tests
TIM BEAL 104
Taipei’s ‘Britisher’: W.
G. Goddard and the Promotion of Nationalist China in the Cold-War Commonwealth
JEREMY E. TAYLOR 126
Human Rights vs. State Interests
in China: Case Studies
JIEFEN LI 147
Graduate Research Essay
Is There Still a Moral
Economy in Java, Indonesia?
SUSAN OLIVIA 169

