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VOLUME 24, no 2 (DECEMBER 2022)
NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, VOL. 24, NO. 2 December 2022
CONTENTS
Articles

Introduction: Central Asia – Not a Periphery of Asia Anymore?
ROUBEN AZIZIAN and ELENA KOLESOVA            1 

Central Asia’s ‘New Great Game’: A Win-Win Scenario?
ROUBEN AZIZIAN                     5 

Battling COVID in Tajikistan: A Peculiar Story of Authoritarian Resilience
KIRILL NOURZHANOV            21 

The Portrayal of Sino–Kazakh Relations in Kazakhstan’s History Textbooks
DANA RICE                                37

Urkun (Forced Exodus): Something Kyrgyz People will never Forget (The Past that does not Want to Go Away)
ELENA KOLESOVA and ALTYN KAPALOVA          51


Book reviews edited by Dennitza Gabrakova and  and Philip Fountain
VOLUME 24, no 1 (June 2022)
NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, VOL. 24, NO. 1 June 2022
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Being ‘Muslim, Moderate and Democratic’: Indonesian Foreign Policy under Yudhoyono and the Coloniality of the International Order 
LENA TAN                                                    1 
China Studies in the Age of Xi 
JASON YOUNG                                           23 
The Great Divergence: Political Accountability and Extractive Capacity in Vietnam and China in the Reform Era 
NGUYEN KHAC GIANG                             41 
Disease and Democracy: Which Way Does the Arrow of Causality Point in India? 
PETER MAYER                                            65 
Understanding Vietnamese State Socialism: Popular Authorisation, State Capacity and Problems of Empirics 
ADAM FFORDE                                          91 

Book reviews edited by Dennitza Gabrakova and Philip Fountain 

VOLUME. 23, NO. 2 (DECEMBER 2021)
NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, VOL. 23, NO. 2 December 2021
CONTENTS
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Articles
Yellow Mountain Travels: Four Accounts
Translated by DUNCAN CAMPBELL, STEPHEN McDOWALL & MICHAEL RADICH      1

Social Exclusion and Inclusive Recovery after the Kumamoto Earthquakes
JOSHUA RICKARD       23

Disseminating ‘World’ Children’s Stories to the Roof of the World: Re-reading Children’s Classics through the Tibetan Translation
QIMEI ZHUOGA          37

Problem Solved or Problematic? New Zealand Aid and Dairy Development in Sri Lanka
JASMINE EDWARDS     55

Himalayan Environmentalism: Buddhism and Beyond
SWARGAJYOTI GOHAIN      69


Book reviews edited by Dennitza Gabrakova and Philip Fountain



VOLUME. 23, NO. 1 (JUNE 2021)
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NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES  VOL. 23, NO. 1 June 2021
CONTENTS
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Articles
Diwali in Dunedin: A Case Study of Festivalisation and Intervention in Indian Cultural Performance in New Zealand
ALISON BOOTH & HENRY JOHNSON 1


Picturing Sound: Musical Instruments, Chee Kung Tong and Photography in New Zealand in the 1920s
HENRY JOHNSON 21


Bamboo in the Chinese Garden
DUNCAN M. CAMPBELL 37


Poetry and the Literacy of Imperial Women in the Ming Dynasty
ELLEN SOULLIÈRE 53


Decolonising Sikkimese Bhutia Language and Cultural Production: The Journey from Colonial Representation to Revival and Reclamation
KALZANG DORJEE BHUTIA & AMY HOLMES-TAGCHUNGDARPA 75


Malay Migrants in Australia: A Longue Durée Perspective, 17th–21st Centuries
ABBAS KHAN & KHAIRUDIN ALJUNIED 101


Book reviews edited by Dennitza Gabrakova and Philip Fountain 

VOLUME. 22, NO. 2 (DECEMBER 2020) SPECIAL ISSUE
Trajectories of Cultural Diplomacy:
East Asian Texts and Artefacts in the Anglosphere
Guest Editor: Dennitza Gabrakova
Trajectories Of Cultural Diplomacy: Introduction
Dennitza Gabrakova 1
Cultural Diplomacy In The Age Of The Empire: Algernon Bertram Mitford (1837–1916)
Anna Gubinskaya 5
The “Partial” Orientalist: Lin Yutang’s Famous Chinese Short Stories and the Soft Power of Chinese Tradition
Liu Min 25
Ceramic Exchanges Between New Zealand And Japan: James Greig (1936–1986)
Kumiko Jacolin 43
Bypassing Biculturalism: Chinese-Māori Connections in Renee Liang’s The Bone Feeder
Luo Hui 69
Review Articles of China in Australasia: Cultural Diplomacy and the Arts Since the Cold War. James Beattie, Richard Bullen, Maria Galikowski (Eds).
Review By Tiger Zhifu Li 85
Review By Ellen Soullière 87
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The 2020 Taiwan Presidential Elections: Was Hong Kong the Biggest Factor?
IVAN YAN CHAO NG 1
Peacetime or Peaceful? Identifying Change and Continuity in Chinese Grand Strategy from a Global Historical Perspective
NIV HORESH 19
Mana Whenua: Points of Convergence in Chinese and Māori Worldviews Regarding Harmonious Relationships
TESSA MA’AUGA & LIANGNI SALLY LIU 43
‘Chinese Values’ in Official Socio-political Discourse of PRC: Re-invention, Re-appraisal or a Display of Persistent Nature of Chinese Socio-Moral Heritage?
PAWEŁ ZYGADŁO 67
Chinese Migrants and Social Capital – A Field Case from West Auckland
ANN POULSEN 81
Review Article 
Hunting Down the Wild Boar – Culture in the Struggle for a Humane Society A review of Menyusu Celeng by Sindhunata.
SIMON RAE 93
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Volume. 21, NO. 2 (DECEMBER 2019)
Articles
A Study of the History of the Chinese Diaspora of New Zealand from the Perspective of Global History 
DU JIDONG and WU MINCHAO (Trans. by Duncan Campbell and Peng Lifang) 1


Representations of the Queer: The Screening of Cross-dressing in Chinese Cinemas 
ANNA TSO WING BO 25

Re-emergence of Student Activism in Singapore’s “Great Marriage Debate” (1983 – 1984): Limits and Diversity
ALOYSIUS FOO 37


Economics, Security and Mongolia’s Interests Toward the Korean Peninsula 
ANTHONY RINNA 57


China in Dunedin: Contemporary Chinese Art at Dunedin Public Art Gallery 
DAVID BELL 71
Volume. 21, NO. 1 (June 2019)
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Articles

A Past of Words Not of Stone: Du Mu’s “Rhapsody on the Epang Palace”
DUNCAN M. CAMPBELL 1

New Zealand’s Unexpected Opening to Asia: John Reid and The Making Of The Colombo Plan, 1949-52
ANTHONY REID 19

Rethinking Immortal Narratives of Fallen Women: A Comparative Study of The Tale of Genji and Chinese Stories in Taiping Guangji
JINDAN NI 39

Paving the Silk Road: Trends in Silk Road Historiography
ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND 55

Political Leadership and Governance Crises in Hong Kong
JERMAIN T.M. LAM 73

The Cold Romantic Face of Modernity and Individual Freedom in the ‘German Trilogy’ of Mori Ōgai
SALVATORE GIUFFRÉ 95
Volume. 20, NO. 2 (December 2018)

​SPECIAL ISSUE: Chinese Visual Culture and Modernity

Guest Editor: Yiyan Wang

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Acknowledgements vi

Articles

Chinese Visual Culture and Modernity: Introduction
YIYAN WANG 1

Chinese Visual Culture Traditions: Looking Back and Looking Forward
ELLEN SOULLIÈRE 3

From Home to Utopia, and Back Again: Locating and Relocating the Peach Blossom Spring
LUO HUI 41

Xu Zhimo: The Public Intellectual and Art Reform in China
YIYAN WANG 63

Wu Guanzhong’s Landscape Painting as a Response to the Art Policies of Socialist China
WENWEN LIU 89

Embodied Modernity: The Gendered Landscape of Contemporary Chinese Art
ROSEMARY HADDON 115
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Hong Kong Collage: or the Intimacy of Distance
DENNITZA GABRAKOVA 137
Volume. 20, NO. 1 (June 2018)
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Articles
Chinese International Students’ Perceptions of Intercultural Friendships with New Zealand Domestic Students
FRANCO VACCARINO, EMMA DRESLER, GEYANG ZHOU & YIWEI YAN 1

Liu E and the World of a Late Qing Collector
DUNCAN M. CAMPBELL 19

Crossing Cultural Boundaries: New Zealand Visual Communication Design (VCD) Teachers Working with VCD Learners in China
BRENDA SARIS 43

Nation, Gender in Kannada Historical Cinema of the 1960s
SUKANYA KANARALLY 61

Social Media for Civic Participation, Communication and Coordination of Disaster Relief: Twitter Usage in The Philippines During Typhoon Nockten
JOSEPH ANTHONY L. REYES, RYCA LAEANE C. MATRO & MIGUEL ALFONSO C. OLIVA 81
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Book reviews edited by Hong-yu Gong and Elena Kolesova
Volume. 19, NO. 2 (December 2017)
Articles

What to Do with Indigenous Knowledge: Sinology Confronts the Disciplines at Tsinghua University
BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY 1

Emerging Generation of Youth with Japanese Ethnic Background in Auckland: Their Bicultural Experiences and Identity
HARUMI MINAGAWA 17

The Zhanaozen Crisis and Oralmans’ Place in the (Re)Construction of the Kazakh National Identity
DILA BEISEMBAYEVA, ELENA KOLESOVA and EVANGELIA PAPOUTSAKI 39

“Because we’ve experienced that too”: Indonesian Support for Japan Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
JULIAN CH LEE, ANI R. LANDAU-WARD and NIKOLAY MURASHKIN 55

Torn between Social Responsibility and Self-Censorship: A Chinese Writer’s Exploration of Official Corruption
YUNZHONG SHU 73

Ms Han Dihou: Teacher, Translator and Essayist
DUNCAN M. CAMPBELL 87
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Book reviews edited by Hong-yu Gong and Elena Kolesova​
Volume 19, No. 1 (June 2017)
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Editor’s Note vi

Obituary
Peter Nicholas Tarling, 1 February 1931 – 13 May 2017
Paul Clark 1

Articles
Researching the Gathering Environmental Crisis in Cambodian Agriculture – Rice
ADAM FFORDE 3

The State of Loneliness as a Source of Poetic Creativity in Feng Zhi’s Early Writings
SALVATORE GIUFFRÉ 23

Consuming English: An Eikaiwa Experience of Cultural ‘Otherness’
EMMA DRESLER and MARTIN KIROFF 37

The Myth of the Pax Mongolica: Re-visiting the Evidence of European Trade with China in the Mongol Period
JOSEPH BENJAMIN ASKEW 53

Historical Reception of Hong Kong-Style Yumcha in Yokohama and Kobe Chinatowns
BENJAMIN WAI-MING NG 77

Sex as “Work”: The Bangladeshi Context
HABIBA SULTANA 93
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Book reviews edited by Hong-yu Gong and Elena Kolesova
Volume 18, No. 2 (December 2016)

​SPECIAL ISSUE: Asia and Education

Guest Editors: Vivienne Anderson and Henry Johnson

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Articles
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on "Asia and Education"
VIVIENNE ANDERSON and HENRY JOHNSON 1

International Student Mobility: A Historian's Impressions:
NICHOLAS TARLING 3

Changing Flows and Directions for International Education and Mobilities in Selected Asian Countries: Turning to Look at Asia from a New Zealand Perspective
STEPHANIE DOYLE 13

An Overview of Educational Leadership in the East Asia Region
ROSS NOTMAN 29

Developing Human Resources for Health: The Philippines and Cambodian Experience
ERLYN A. SANA, MELFLOR A. ATIENZA and RODEL G. NODORA 43

Negotiating Space and Identity: The Experiences of Hafu Children in Japanese Early Childhood Education
RACHEL S. BURKE 57

Protestant Theological Education, Indigenisation, and Contextualisation in Singapore and Malaysia, 1948-1979
JOHN ROXBOROUGH 71

The Minority in Art and Music Education: Reflections on Connectivity and Dis-Connectivity of the National Curriculum on Multiculturalism in Singapore's Schools
WENDY EIKAAS-LEE 85

The Nature of Multiculturalism within the Civic Textbooks of Sri Lanka
MARIE NISSANKA 97
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Book reviews will resume in the June 2017 issue
Volume 18, No. 1 (June 2016)
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Articles

Haggling Encounters in Dhaka's Local-service Buses: The Uncharted Discourse
SHUVO SAHA 1

Seeds of Mao Zedong Thought: Two Prototypical Examples os the Discourse of Revolution in Modern China
YUNZHONG SHU 21

The Tale of Two Narratives: The New Zealand print media and the Indonesian-Malaysian Confrontation, 1963-1866
ANDREW LIM 35

Why Hearn? The Critical Reception of Lafcadio Hearn in Japan
RIE KIDO ASKEW 57

Unrequitted Patriotism: Remembering the Stories of the Nanyang Volunteers
TAN CHUN KIANG ISAAC 75

Book reviews edited by Hong-yu Gong and Elena Kolesova
Hong-yu Gong and Elena Kolesova 91
Volume 17, No. 2 (December 2015)
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Articles

Making Asia Known: Twenty Years of the Asia New Zealand Foundation
ANDREW BUTCHER 1

Asian Festivalscapes: The Festivalization of Asia in the Making of Aotearoa/New Zealand
HENRY JOHNSON 17

The Constituency Role of the Member of Parliament in Bangladesh
NIZAM AHMED 41

The Practices of Traditional Healthcare among Malay Women of Javanese Descent in Malaysia: Jamu, Cultural Identity and Sense of Belonging
LILY EL FERWATI ROFIL, AZIZAH HAMZAH & MD AZALANSHAH MD SYED 61

Faces of Loyalty: Utagawa Kunisada's Seichū Gishi-Den; Conformity and Innovation in the Ukiyo-E Portrait
DAVID BELL 75

John Turnbull Thomson and the Hikayat Abdullah
WILBERT WONG WEI WEN 95
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Book reviews edited by Hong-yu Gong and Elena Kolesova
Volume 17, No. 1 (June 2015)
Table of Content

Articles

Nationalism, Feminism and Beyond: A Note on the Comfort Women Movement
HEE-KANG KIM 1

Cross-cultural Practice in Creative Perspective: New Zealand Compositions for Cultural Javanese Gamelan Instruments
ANTON KILLIN 21

China's Citizenship Diplomacy at Bandung: An Evaluation from the British Perspective
LOW CHOO CHIN 41

Pchiru Shelni: Courtship or Sexual Coercion in Rural Bhutan
TSHERING YANGDEN 65

'How Funny (This Country is)': A Moral and Religious Debate through the Lens of an Indonesian Film
HANNY SAVITRI HARTONO 79

Review Article

Environmental History in East Asia: Recent Scholarship and Trends
JAMES BEATTIE 97
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Book reviews edited by Hong-Yu and Elena Kolesova
Volume 16, No. 2 (December 2014)

​Special issue: Asia in New Zealand Lives

Guest editors: Jacob Edmond and Henry Johnson

Introduction: "Asia in New Zeland Lives"
JACOB EDMOND and HENRY JOHNSON 1

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Articles

Edmund Hilary: His Everest Legacy
SUSAN HEYDON 5

Anand Satyanand; A Prominent Son of the Indian Diaspora:
JACQUELINE LECKIE 31

Scientific Agriculture, Health and Gardening: Japan, New Zealand and Bella and Frederic Truby King
JAMES BEATTIE 47

Labouring in the "Sheltered Field": Rewi Alley's Translations from the Chinese
DUNCAN CAMPBELL 77

Socialism is a Mission: Max Bickerton's Involvement with the Japanese Communist Party and Translation of Japanese Proletarian Literature in the 1930s
FUJIO KANO and MAURICE WARD 99

Kinsey and the Collectors: Sir John Kinsey and Collecting Ukiyo-e in New Zealand
DAVID BELL 121

Nancy Wai-lan Kwok-Goddard: A Pioneer Humanist-Socialist
MANYING IP 141
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Vic Percival, China Trader
PAUL CLARK 159

Chineseness in (a) New Zealand Life: Lynda Chanwai-Earle
HILARY CHUNG 173

In Pleasant Places: A Story of a New Zealand Missionary Family
ANDREW BUTCHER 195

Jack Body: Crafting the Asian Soundscape in New Zealand Music
HENRY JOHNSON 219

Book reviews edited by Hong-yu Gong and Elena Kolesova
​Because of the length of this Special Issue, book reviews have been held over for the June 2015 issue
Volume 16, No. 1 (June 2014)
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Articles

Retrospection and Anticipation: An Analysis of Shōtetsu’s Yūgen
PENELOPE SHINO 1

The Confucian Moral Foundations of Socialist Model Man: Lei Feng and the Twenty Four Exemplars of Filial Behaviour
ROSEMARY ROBERTS 23

Financial Integration of South Asia: An Exploratory Study
RASHMI UMESH ARORA & SHYAMA RATNASIRI 39

‘The Fair Chinese Maid; A Tale of Macao’ Or, the First English Poetry of Hong Kong?
DAMIAN SHAW 61

Meng Jinghui and His Contemporary Avant-Garde Drama
SHENSHEN CAI 75

The Climate-Health Relationship: An Empirical Study of a Slum Area in Nepal
YASHODA RIJAL 93

Disciplining Preferences: The “Cantonese Question” in Singapore Mass Media
YING-KIT CHAN 109
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Book reviews edited by Duncan Campbell
Volume 15, No. 2 (December 2013)

SPECIAL ISSUE

Diplomats, Allies and Migrants: Contours of New Zealand-South Korean Relations
Guest Editor: Kenneth Wells

CONTENTS
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Preface
KENNETH WELLS

Articles
Introduction. New Zealand and Korea in the Pacific: The Growth of a Partnership
KENNETH WELLS 3

The Impact of the Korean War on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between New Zealand and the Republic of Korea
IAN McGIBBON 15

‘An awfully long time’: Establishing New Zealand-North Korean Diplomatic Relations
PAUL BELLAMY 24

Koreans in NZ: Negotiating Values in a Transnational Social Field
BON-GIU KOO 45

God and Golf: Koreans in New Zealand
ANDREW BUTCHER & GEORGE WIELAND 57

Parenting Patterns of ‘1.5 Generation Kowis’ in New Zealand: “Take best of both worlds to raise the next generation”
HYEEUN KIM 78

Ethnic Entrepreneurship of Korean New Zealanders: Restaurant Business as Self-Employment Practice
CHANGZOO SONG 94

Encountering Auckland and Seoul: Youth, Travel and Micro-politics of Korea-New Zealand Relations
FRANCIS COLLINS 110

Book reviews edited by Hong-yu Gong and Elena Kolesova
Volume 15, No. 1 (June 2013)
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Articles

Barriers to New Zealand-China Economic Integration: A Case of the Dairy Industry and Beyond
YUANFEI KANG and TIM BEAL 1

Is the face of Chinese Ethnic minority Entrepreneurship in New Zealand Changing?
HULBERT P. DE VRIES and RHONDA KANTOR 18

Special Focus on North Korea Introduction
KENNETH WELLS 32

Fake State Enterprises in Post-Crisis North Korea
ANDREI LANKOV 33

Acting Alone to Act Together: Diversifying Approaches to North Korea
DANIEllE CHUBB 43

Chapped lips, Chipped Teeth: Sino-North Korean relations in the Post Kim Jong Il Era
THOMAS B. GOLD 60

Encounter Between languages: liang Qichao’s Translation and Translingual Practice
ZENG LIN 77

Catholicism and the gelaohui in late Qing China
HONGYAN XIANG 93

The Pilgrim-in-dialogue in Malaysia
JULIAN C H LEE 114

Book reviews edited by Duncan Campbell
Volume 14, NO. 2 (December 2012)
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Articles

Beyond the Colonial Subject: Mobility, Cosmopolitanism and Self-fashioning in Sarat Chandra Das’ A Journey To Lhasa And Central Tibet
PRAMOD K. NAYAR 1

Vietnamese American Survival Literature and Human Rights Discourse
QUAN MANH HA 17

The Making of Muslim Spaces in an Auckland Suburb
HANNY SAVITRI HARTONO 38      

Writing as Rituals at the Postmodern Juncture: Translocal Imagining in Zhu Tianwen’s A Sorceress’ Discourse
CHIA-RONG WU 54

Bella King in Japan And China: Travelling and Collecting in the Early Twentieth Century
DAVID BELL 67

Understanding the Relationship between the Government and Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Case of Singapore
CHOON-YIN SAM 86

Epistolary Guidebooks for Women in Early Twentieth Century China and the Shaping of Modern Chinese Women’s National Consciousness
OI MAN CHENG 105

Review article

New Perspectives on Chinese New Zealand Market Gardeners, 1860s-2010s
JAMES BEATTIE 121
Volume 14, No. 1 (June 2012)
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Articles

Staying In Singapore?: New Zealand’s Third Labour Government and the Retention of Military Forces in Southeast Asia
DAVID McCRAW 1

Negotiations between Conviction and Compliance: The Journeys of Yang Mo’s Intellectual Characters
YUNZHONG SHU 18

A Reluctant Friend: New Zealand’s Relationship with North Korea 1973-1989
PAUL BELLAMY 30

Indonesian National Security during the Suharto New Order (1965-1998): The Role of Narratives of Peoplehood and the Construction of Danger
LENA TAN 49

Strengthening the Peace Building and Peacekeeping through Sport Nexus in Asia: Maximising the Potential of Sport, Olympism and Education
SAMANTHA NANAYAKKARA and IAN CULPAN 71

The Politics of Nostalgia in Vestiges of Japan: Yamada Taichi’s Representation of Lafcadio Hearn
RIE KIDO ASKEW 87

Book reviews edited by Duncan Campbell
Volume 13, No. 2 (December 2011)
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Articles

‘Gentlemen both on and off the Field’: The 1924 Chinese Universities Soccer Team in New Zealand
Geoff Watson 1

White People Can’t Sell Sushi: Unpacking Korean Influence over Sushi Production in New Zealand
MATTHEW ALLEN and RUMI SAKAMOTO 18

To Sing for the Nation: Japan, School Song and the Forging of a New National Citizenry in Late Qing China, 1895-1911
Hong-yu Gong 36

The Neglected Administrative Foundations of Pakistan’s Constitutional Democracy
Ilhan Niaz 52

Writing Spirituality in the Works of Can Xue: Transforming the Self
Rosemary Haddon 68

Review article

Muslims in New Zealand: ‘An integral part of the nation’? A review of Erich Kolig, New Zealand’s Muslims and Multiculturalism
Christopher J. van der Krogt  82

Book reviews edited by Duncan Campbell
Volume 13, No. 1 (June 2011)
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Articles

Behind the Hyperreality Experience: The 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
King Tong Ho 1

A Haunting Voice: A Place for Literary Wives in the History of the Civil Examinations in Qing China
Hoi Ling Lui 17

Japanese Aid to the Pahang-Selangor Water Transfer Project in Malaysia: Aid Guidelines and Decision-Making
Fumitaka Furuoka 31

Bridging the Cultural Gulfs: CHC Teachers in New Zealand Schools
Dekun Sun 46

Globalisation and the Indian Agriculture Sector
Sajid Anwar and Desh Gupta 62

“Rustic Fiction Indeed!”: Reading Jia Yu-cun in Dream of the Red Chamber
Mark Ferrara 87

Book reviews edited by Duncan Campbell
Volume 12, No. 2 (December 2010)
Articles

A New Translation of the Sanskrit Bhadracarī with Introduction and Notes.
Douglas Osto 1

A Culture of Work-Life ‘Imbalance’ in Singapore.
Lim Weida 22

Regional Sports: Navigating the Winds of Social Change for Female Elite Athletes in Asia.
Samantha Nanayakkara, Ian Culpan and Jane McChesney 38

Reassessing the Early History of the New Zealand Sikh Community 1881-1914.
Harpreet Singh 50

Modernism and Orientalism: The Ambiguous Nudes of Chinese Artist Pan Yuliang.
Phyllis Teo 65

‘The Beautiful Stars at Night’: The Glittering Artistic World of Yayoi Kusama.
David Bell 81

Colonial Powers, Nation-States and Kerajaan in Maritime Southeast Asia: Structures, Legalities and Perceptions
Syed Mohammed Ad’ha Aljunied 94
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Book reviews edited by Duncan Campbell
Volume 12, No. 1 (June 2010)
Articles

The Absence of Gender in May Fourth Narratives of Woman’s Emancipation: A Case Study on Hu Shi’s The Greatest Event in Life.
YANG LIANFEN, p.6

Traversing the Sublime: The Metamorphosis of the Female Body in Lu Xun’s Regrets for the Past.
PING ZHU, p.14

On the Front: Women Confronting War.
LIU LU, p.29

Desires, Bodily Rhetoric and Melodramatic Imagination: Women in the Making of Revolutionary Myth in Three Chinese Films of the Seventeen Years
LI LI, p.46

Revolutionary Aestheticism and Excess: Transformation of the Idealized Female Body in The Red Lantern on Stage and Screen
ZHANG LING, p.67

Gender Psychology in The Red Lantern in its Evolution from Model Opera to Soap Opera
ROSEMARY ROBERTS, p.93
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Book reviews edited by Duncan Campbell
Volume 11, No. 2 (December 2009)
Articles

The Olympic Effect: New Zealanders’ Perceptions of China in 2008.
Andrew Butcher, p.1

The Myth of Constructing a Greater China Identity: A Case Study of the Malaysian-Chinese in Reforming China.
Law Kam-yee and Lee Kim-ming, p.19

The Critical Reception of Lafcadio Hearn outside Japan.
Rie Askew, p.44

Managing The Tortoise Island: Tua Pek Kong Temple, Pilgrimage, and Social Change in Pulau Kusu, 1965-2007.
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, p.72

Between the Profane and Spirit Worlds: The Conceptualisation of Uplands and Mountains in Japanese and Maori Folklore.
Catherine Knight, p.96

The Changing Contours of Discrimination in Japan: The Treatment of Applicants from North Korean-Affiliated Schools in Japan to National Universities.
Adam Beije, p.115

Royalty on the Run: The Legend of Princes Oke and Woke Reconstructed
Andrew Weston, p.134

‘Asian’ in New Zealand Parlance: A False Essentialism
John M. Lowe, p.149

Home Is Calling? Or Home Is on the Move?: Return Chinese Immigrants of New Zealand as Transnationals.
Liangni Liu, p.164

Singapore-Malaysia Relations Revisited: An “English School” IR Analysis.
Ming Hwa Ting, p.172
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Book reviews edited by Duncan Campbell
Volume 11, No. 1  (June 2009)

THEMES FOR THOUGHT ON SOUTHEAST ASIA

A FESTSCHRIFT TO
EMERITUS PROFESSOR NICHOLAS TARLING
ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 75th BIRTHDAY

OOI Keat Gin

Guest Editor

Bawa resmi padi, semakin berisi, semakin tunduk

Makin berilmu makin merendah diri

Follow the ways of the rice stalk, the more
laden it gets the more it bows its head

The more one acquires knowledge,
the more humble one becomes

Articles


Preface
OOI KEAT GIN, p.2

Foreword
ANTHONY REID, p.5
The Festschrift
OOI KEAT GIN, p.8
Peter Nicholas Tarling: A Tribute
OOI KEAT GIN, p.15
Seventy-Fifth Birthday Speech
NICHOLAS TARLING, p.31
Keynote Address
WANG GUNGWU, p.36

Articles

British Trade to Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Revisited
DIANNE LEWIS, p.49

Dropping Artillery, Loading Rice and Elephants: A Spanish Ambassador in the Court of Ayudhya in 1718
FERDINAND C. LLANES, p.60

Prince Cường Để (1882-1951) and his Quest for Vietnamese Independence
MY-VAN TRAN, p.75

Woolley and the Codification of Native Customs in Sabah
DANNY WONG TZE KEN, p.87

British Colonial Rule, Japanese Occupation, and the Transformation of Malay Kingship 1930s-1957
KOBKUA SUWANNATHAT-PIAN, p.106

The Communist Insurgency and the End of Empire in Malaysia, 1948-90: Contesting the Nation-State and Social Change 132
CHEAH BOON KHENG, p.132

Lenin and Sneevliet: The Origins of the Theory of Colonial Revolution in the Dutch East Indies
DOV BING, p.153

The Economic Decolonization of Sumatra
J. THOMAS LINDBLAD, p.178

Charles Alma Baker’s Uneasy Role in the Expansion of the Malayan Economy 1890s-1910s
SIVACHANDRALINGAM SUNDARA RAJA, p.189

Bung Karno and the Bintang Muhammadiyah: A Political Affair
STEVEN DRAKELEY, p.208

Revivalism and Radicalism in Southeast Asian Islam: A Pattern or an Anomaly?
IIK A. MANSURNOOR, p.222

Has the Past got a Future in Local Politics in Indonesia? Pilkada 2005 in Bali
GRAEME MACRAE, p.263

Labour Crossings in Southeast Asia: Linking Historical and Contemporary Labour Migration
AMARJIT KAUR, p.276

Employment Relations in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future
MAIMUNAH AMINUDDIN, p.304

Singapore’s State-Guided Entrepreneurship: A Model for Transitional Economies?
ANTHONY SHOME, p.318

Peninsular Malaysia in the Context of Natural History and Colonial Science
J. KATHIRITHAMBY-WELLS, p.337

Indian Mutiny in Singapore, 1915: People who Observed the Scene and People who Heard the News
SHO KUWAJIMA, p.375

New Zealand Diplomatic Representation in Southeast Asia: The 1950s and 1960s
JAMES KEMBER, p.385

History Making in Singapore: Who is Producing the Knowledge?
NICOLE TARULEVICZ, p.402

Southeast Asian Studies in Southeast Asia: Agenda for the Twenty-First Century
OOI KEAT GIN, p.426
Volume 10, No. 2 (December 2008)
Articles

New Zealand-China Relations: Common Points and Differences
ANNE-MARIE BRADY 1

After Ten Years of Trabsfer Sovereignty:Political Stability and Reforms in Hong Kong
JERMAIN T.M.LAM 21

Music, Nationalism, and the Search for Modernity in China 1911-1949
HONG-YU GONG 38

Takeda Kiyoko: A twenty-Century Japanese Christian Intellectual
VANESSA B. WARD 70


Graduate Researh Essay
Japanese Travel Culture: An Investigation of the lInks Between Early Japanese Pilgrimage and Modern Japanese Travel Behaviour
LEAH WATKINS 93

Review Articles
Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Empire, Nation-Making and Forest Management
JAMES BEATTIE 111

Recent Revisions of Ming History
STEPHEN MCDOWALL 121

The Source and the Period Eye: New Perspectives of Japanese Visual Culture
DAVID BELL 132

Reviews
Reviews
​VOLUME 10, NO. 1 (JUNE 2008)

Special Issue: Representing Asia, Remaking Aotearoa
Guest Editor: Jacob Edmond

​CONTENTS
Information about the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies iii

Articles

Representing Asia, Remaking Aotearoa: Introduction
​JACOB EDMOND 1

O To Be a Dragon
DIANA BRIDGE 8

Ukiyo-e in New Zealand
DAVID BELL 28

Composing Asia in New Zealand: Gamelan and Creativity
HENRY JOHNSON 54

Multiculturalism’s Pitfalls on New Zealand Television: The Rise and Fall of Touch China TV
PAOLA VOCI 85

The Borderline Poetics of Tze Ming Mok
JACOB EDMOND 108

Review Article
'The Elephant in the Living Room': Studying Chinese Australian History
NIGEL MURPHY 134

Reviews
Reviews
​VOLUME 9, NO. 2 (DECEMBER 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

Reviews
Reviews
​VOLUME 9, NO. 1 (JUNE 2007)

​Special Issue: Asian Environments
Guest Editor: James Beattie

Articles
People and Environment
(Picture), LI KANGYING 1

Introduction: Asian Environments
JAMES BEATTIE 2

Transplanted Peculiarity: The Garden of the Master of the Fishing Nets
DUNCAN CAMPBELL 9

A Garden of Distant Longing: Dunedin’s Chinese Garden
CAO YONGKANG, CHEN LING, TAN YUFENG (DUNCAN CAMPBELL, TRANSLATOR) 26

Growing Chinese Influences in New Zealand: Chinese Gardens,Identity and Meaning
JAMES BEATTIE 38

The System of Wildlife Management and Conservation in Japan, with Particular Reference to the Asiatic Black Bear
CATH KNIGHT 62

Ogasawara Islands: An Evolutionary Laboratory of Nature and Culture
NANYAN GUO 80

Siting the Stage: Representations of Central Asian Environments in British Literature, c.1830-1914
GEOFF WATSON 96

Fit for the Frontier: European Understandings of the Tibetan Environment in the Colonial Era
ALEX MCKAY 118

‘High Places’: Sir Edmund Hillary, the Sherpa and Health Services in the Mt Everest Area of Nepal
SUSAN HEYDON 133

Poetry
'the gap between stones' & others, DIANA BRIDGE 156

'Foreseen Tomorrow' & others, SRIYA KUMARASINGHE 159

Review Article
Problems and Opportunities in the Study of the Buddha's Bodies
​MICHAEL RADICH 162

Reviews
Reviews
​VOLUME 8, NO. 2 (DECEMBER 2006)

​Special Issue: Muslims in New Zealand
Guest Editor of Themed Articles: Erich Kolig

​Articles
Introduction: Muslims in New Zealand
ERICH KOLIG AND WILLIAM SHEPARD, p. 1

New Zealand’s Muslims and their Organisations
WILLIAM SHEPARD, p. 8

A Gordian Knot of Rights and Duties: New Zealand’s Muslims and Multiculturalism
ERICH KOLIG, p. 45

Essentialising Islam: Multiculturalism and Islamic Politics in New Zealand
IAN CLARKE, p. 69

Modes of Sufi Transmission to New Zealand
ARTHUR FRANK BUEHLER, p. 97

Ahmed Zaoui, a Victim of 9/11: Impact of the Terrorist Attacks in the United States on New Zealand Refugee Policies
NAJIB LAFRAIE, p. 110

The Notion of Modesty in Muslim Women’s Clothing: An Islamic Point of View
AISHA WOOD BOULANOUAR, p.134

Glossary of Islamic and Arabic terms, p.157

Graduate Research Essay
Lafcadio Hearn and Three Roads to National Survival
RIE KIDO ASKEW, p. 159
​
Review Article
Re-Writing the Turtle's Back: Gendered Bodies in a Global Age
ADRIAN CARTON, p. 177

Reviews
Reviews p. 186
​VOLUME 8, NO. 1 (JUNE 2006)
​Articles
Returnee Scholars: Ouyang Yu, The Displaced Poet and the Sea Turtle
KAM LOUIE (University of Hong Kong)

Doing Business in India
RODNEY SEBASTIAN (Australian National University), ASHVIN PARAMESWARAN (Australian National University) & FAIZAL YAHYA (National University of Singapore)

Singaporean Style of Public Sector Corporate Governance: Can the Private Sector Corporations Emulate the Public Sector Practices?
SAJID ANWAR (University of Adelaide & University of South Australia) & CHOON-YIN SAM (TMC International Holdings Limited)

Anglo-Indian Experiences During Partition and its Impact Upon Their Lives
DOROTHY MCMENAMIN (Christchurch, New Zealand)

Graduate Research Essay
Commodification of Asian International Students in Radio Media Discourse
S. JEANIE BENSON (Auckland University of Technology)

Review Article
Peaks and Valleys in Himalayan Studies
ALEX MCKAY (University College London)
​
Reviews
Reviews
​VOLUME 7, NO. 2 (DECEMBER 2005)
​Articles
The Global Guru: Sai Baba and the Miracle of the Modern
RICHARD WEISS (VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON) 5

Islam and State: A Study of the Liberal Islamic Network in Indonesia, 1999-2004
AHMAD ALI NURDIN (STATE INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES) 20

Exploring Constructions of the ‘Drug Problem’ in Historical and Contemporary Singapore
NOORMAN ABDULLAH (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE) 40

Discordant Beijing Sextet Plays in Harmony: But for how Long?
TIM BEAL (VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON) 71

Britain’s First Traitor of the Pacific War: Employment and Obsession
PETER OBLAS (TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES) 109

Qian Qianyi’s (1582-1664) Reflections on Yellow Mountain
STEPHEN MCDOWALL (VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON) 134

The Indigenization of Japanese Elements in Hong Kong TV Dramas
BENJAMIN WAI-MING NG (CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG) 153

Dancing with Lions: (Per)Forming Chinese Cultural Identity at a New Zealand Secondary School
HENRY JOHNSON (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO) 171

Review Article
Of Caste and Colonialism
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Caste, Culture and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India
TONY BALLANTYNE (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO)

Reviews
Reviews
​​VOLUME 7, NO. 1 (JUNE 2005)

Abstracts

​Articles
The founding of NZASIA
Nicholas Tarling and Richard Phillips (University of Auckland), pp.5-14.

Constraints and Choices: East Timor as a Foreign Policy Actor
Anthony L. Smith (Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies), pp.15-36.

Money and Morality: Some Perspectives from Singapore
Kelvin E.Y. Low (National University of Singapore), pp.37-62.

Abortion as Personal Experience in Chinese Women’s Fiction of the 1980s
Rosie Roberts (University of Queensland), pp.63-92.

Against Myth and History: A New Writing of Motherhood in Contemporary Chinese Women's Literature
Jiang Haixin (University of Otago), pp.93-111.

Beginnings and Departures: The Dream of the Red Chamber
Yaohua Shi (Wake Forest University), pp.112-133.

Graduate Research Essay
The Chinese & Indian Diasporas in New Zealand: An Oral History Project
Sharmila Bernau (Victoria University of Wellington), pp.134-152.

Reviews
Reviews
​VOLUME 6, NO. 2 (DECEMBER 2004)
Articles
Introduction: Knowledge and European Empire-Building in Asia
Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago), pp. 5-11

The Prehistory of Orientalism: Colonialism and the Textual Basis for Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg’s Account of Hinduism
Will Sweetman (University of Otago)

Contesting Colonial Masculinity / Constituting Imperial Authority: Ceylon in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Public Debate
James H. Warren (University of Illinois), pp.39-62.

Asia's Maritime Networks and the Colonial Public Sphere, 1840-1920
Mark Ravinder Frost (National University of Singapore), pp.63-94.

Theorizing the Chinese: The Mui Tsai Controversy and Constructions of Transnational Chineseness in Hong Kong & British Malaya
Karen Yuen (University of Illinois), pp.95-110.

Social Communication & Colonial Archaeology in Viêt Nam
Haydon L. Cherry (Yale University), pp.111-126.

Orientalist Reflections: Asia and the Pacific in the Making of late Eighteenth-Century Ireland
William O’Reilly (National University of Ireland, Galway), pp.127-147.

Graduate Research Essay
Memory Wars’: The Manipulation of History in the Context of Sino-Japanese Relations
Jasper Heizen (University of Canterbury), pp.148-164

Review Article
Overcoming the Borderland Complex: India & China, 600-1400

Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
Tansen Sen, Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
S.A.M. Adshead, T’ang China: The Rise of the East in World History

Brian Moloughney (University of Otago), pp.165-176.

Reviews
Reviews
​Volume 6, No. 1 (June 2004)
Articles
Nahdlatul Ulama and Collective Ijtihad, pp.5-26.
Nadirsyah Hosen

Female Representation in Parliament: A Case Study from Bangladesh, pp.27-63.
Nomita Halder

Ethnic Differences in Marriage & Household Structure in a Chinese City, pp.64-82.
Zang Xiaowei

Linguistic Engineering in Mao’s China: The Case of English Language Teaching, pp.83-99.
Ji Fengyuan

Restructuring State-Owned Big Business in Former Planned Economies: The Case of China’s Shipbuilding Industry, pp.100-129.
Russell Smyth, Xin Deng & Junli Wang

The Cultural Paradox of Modern Japan: Japan and its Three Others, pp.130-149.
Rie Kido Askew

“Homing Crane Lodge” Versus The Story Of A Palindrome: Different Ways Of Redefining Qing And Employing Inversion, pp.150-175.
Ying Wang

Forms of Belonging: ‘Authenticity’ in an Auckland Vietnamese Temple, pp.176-203.
Geoffrey Moore

Reviews
Reviews
​Volume 5, No. 2 (December 2003)

Paper Abstracts

Articles
Connecting Cultures: Hong Kong Literature in English, the 1950s, pp. 5-25
Elaine Yin
A study of Hong Kong writing in English during the 1950s, with particular attention to poetry by Edmund Blunden and Wong man as well as Richard Mason's novel The World of Suizie Wong.

A Short Walk on the Wilde Side: Kipling's First Impressions of Japan, pp. 26-32
Harry Ricketts
As one of Kipling's biographers, Rickett's explores Kipling's response to Japan.

Not Knowing The Oriental, pp. 33-46
Douglas Kerr
This paper marks the twenty-fifth year of Edward Said's Orientalism by reconsidering the knowledge/power paradigm that has dominated much thinking about colonial discourse after Said. In addition to cases of ‘sublime' ignorance, when the Orient was felt to be too vast, daunting and mysterious ever to be contained by western knowledge, there were also moments, and even strategies, of prophylactic ignorance, in which the western observer stepped back from venturing into the hinterland of Oriental experience, for fear of being overwhelmed, contaminated, compromised, assimilated or consumed. In such cases, colonial authority depended on not knowing too much. The theme of colonial ignorance is pursued in an investigation of one of Said's prime witnesses, the Earl of Cromer, for twenty-five years de facto governor of Egypt, whose authoritative Modern Egypt insists nonetheless that ‘the Egyptian Puzzle' must remain insoluble by the Englishman. The argument here is that this is a strategic ignorance that protects or insulates the Englishman's power. The second part of the essay turns to Rudyard Kipling's Indian fiction, in which knowing the Oriental is a glamorous but dangerous pursuit. Kipling's policeman hero Strickland seeks insider knowledge to increase his power over Indians, but in doing so he jeopardizes the distance on which his difference from them, and authority over them, depends. This compromises his status with both Indians and his fellow British. Sometimes it is ignorance of the Orient that secures power. Kipling's colonial characters are frequently caught in this dilemma – knowledge of the Oriental is dangerous, but ignorance is insupportable.

Imagining a Nation: Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid and National Identity, pp. 47-55
M.Y. Chiu
This article examines the construction of national identity in Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid, a postcolonial novel that consciously mobilises the knowledge of culture and history to forge a sense of community. Weaving together Western narratives and Asian texts, Fernando creates, through several mutually reinforcing levels, the image of a pluralistic, multi-ethnic society. Scorpion Orchid, neatly exemplifying some of the basic mechanics of nation formation, can be regarded as an instance of national identity engineering.

Configuring the Dynamics Of Dispossession in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance & Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things, pp. 56-76
Doreen D'Cruz
This essay engages in a comparative study of how the politics of caste and gender operate in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance (1995) and in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997). Through reference to some key anthropological texts, it sets up the context for its discussion by investigating the logic underpinning the defilement associated with Untouchables and women on account of their constructed proximity to certain biological processes. Notwithstanding the guarantees made by India's secular constitution towards Untouchables and women, both novels show the continuity of native structures of oppression that are immune to or appropriative of both democratic and Marxist models of social, political, and economic reform. Since, for both authors, the fantasy of power and its attendant paranoia have their source in the problematic relationship with the body, both turn to the intimate stage, where the drama of "small things" are played out, in order to refigure this relationship. Through surveys of their different narrative strategies, both novels are interpreted as ultimately subscribing to an inclusive ethic.

Yuan Hongdao's "A History of the Vase", pp. 77-93
Duncan Campbell
This article offers the first complete English translation of Yuan Hongdao's (1568-1610) "A History of the Vase" (Pingshi), completed in 1599. This work, in 13 sections and dealing with aspects of the nomenclature, hierarchy and care of cut flowers, is an important and influential early example of the burgeoning late-Ming dynasty literature of connoisseurship. A short introduction seeks to situate this text within the trajectory of Yuan's developing ideas about the nature and role of literature. An Appendix provides a table of corresponding common and botanical names for all the plants and flowers mentioned in the text.

Hoshi Shinichi and the Space-Age Fable, pp. 94-114
Sayuri Matsushima
In Japan, the works of Hoshi Shinichi can be said to be synonymous with science fiction and the short short story. However, such an association place them in categories that may hinder them from being valued as works possessing the kind of literary worth they deserve. Hence, in this paper, firstly, the terms science fiction and the short short story will be looked at in relation to Hoshi Shinichi's works. Following this, space age fable and folk tale are considered as terms that more accurately describe the features of his works that are noteworthy. Two of Hoshi's short short stories, ‘Manê eiji' and ‘Kata no ue no hisho' are then introduced in order to demonstrate that a feature in Hoshi's works that give them depth is the incorporation of satire. The methods used include exaggeration, future/speculative settings, irony, absurd humour, and identifiable stereotypes.

Beyond Boundaries: Centre/Periphery Discourse in Oe Kenzaburo's Dojidai Gemu & Witi Ihimaera's The Matriarch, pp. 115-144
Christopher Isherwood
In 2001 Japan experienced a tremor that shook the very foundations of its society. The new history textbook written by order of the Ministry of Education was condemned in a scandal that reverberated throughout Asia. The authors, along with the government, were cordially told what they had forgotten to mention. And while the history pundits swiftly pointed out the gaps and silences, one point lay ominously quiet, concealed within the word colonization. Although the word colonization has been used to explain Japan's military expansion into Asia and the United State's postwar occupation it can also help to explain Japan's transition from a closed feudal society to a modern nation-state. Ironically, this process had been thoroughly analyzed more than three decade before the history textbook fiasco. According to author and Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo the missing piece to the puzzle lies in a different understanding of history that can only be viewed from the periphery of society. In his novel Dojidai Gemu Oe delves deep into the marginalized spaces of Japanese sociopolitical history to reveal the machinations of Japan's centralization as a form of "internal colonization". These themes in Oe's work have remained strangely silent, partly due to his isolation by politically motivated groups and partly due to an increasing emphasis in Japan to bolster a unified identity based on a national literature. On the other side of the Pacific New Zealand Maori writer Witi Ihimaera tackles many of the same issues including colonization, historical injustices, national myths, and alienation to name a few. In his novel The Matriarch Ihimaera writes against "official" history revealing in his own imaginative way a story that has been largely forgotten. While they write from different locals Oe and Ihimaera are essentially after the same thing: recognition. In this paper I attempt to reveal Oe's entirely new interpretation of modern Japanese history as a form of internal colonization by offering a comparative literary analysis of centre/periphery discourse in his novel Dojidai Geemu and Ihimaera's work The Matriarch. Ultimately it is only by going beyond national boundaries and by resituating Oe within the larger sphere of Asia Pacific literature that such recognition can be achieved.

Alison Wong, An Introduction to Dunedin

Review Article
HEAVENLY CREATURES? LEWIS MAYO (University of Melbourne)

Reviews
Reviews
​Volume 5, No. 1 (June 2003)

Table of Contents

​Articles
Honour, Violence and Conflicting Narratives: A Study of Myth and Reality, pp. 5 - 24
BADRI NARAYAN (G.B. PANT SOCIAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE)
In the predominantly agrarian patriarchial societies of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh that are still trapped between tradition and modernity, even today the moral values projected through Manusmriti and other ancient Brahminical religious texts of the Hindus heavily influence the mindset of the people. In these societies, marriage, negotiated strictly within the caste configurations and symbolised by the vermillion mark in the parting of the hair of women, is the only situation which legitimises the relationship between an unrelated man and a woman. In no other situation is a relationship between a man and a woman who do not belong to the same family, tolerated. Even today asymmetrical love relationships between members of the upper castes and those belonging to castes and communities in the lower socio-economic strata, and also narratives about such relationships, produce violence at various levels. This paper deals with the phenomenon of violence that took place around such an asymetrical love relationship and tries to analyse the relationship between the myths and realities centering around this story. The fractured nature of folk society is reflected in the various contesting versions of this myth

An Accord of Cautious Distance: Muslims in New Zealand, Ethnic Relations, and Image Management, pp. 24 - 50
ERICH KOLIG (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO)
The terrorist attacks in the USA of 11th September 2001 have tended to problematise the presence of Muslims in Western society. In the aftermath of these events media and popular press have re-evaluated Western Muslims and Islam per se in terms of whether these pose an inherent threat. This paper discusses the presence of Muslims in New Zealand, the policies the major Muslim organisations pursue in terms of encouraging a particular Islamic and Muslim identity within the Muslim community and projecting an acceptable image of Islam vis-à-vis the host society. It also discusses the host society's reaction to the presence of a Muslim minority, which appears, so far, to be noticeably different to the situation in other Western countries.

The Myth of Multiracialism in Post-9/11 Singapore: The Tudung Incident, pp. 51 - 72
LAW KAM-YEE (CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)
In early 2002, the easily neglected Muslim headscarf incident in Singapore has triggered a rare but fiery and continuous debate within the country, which widely involves her neighbors. Through the incident, this article reveals the plight of Singapore's Malay Muslims, who have been marginalized for a long time from the state's commitment to social mobility and ethnic integration. The article queries the Singaporean government's commitment to both multiracialism and shared values is self-contradictory, as well as the country's possible miscarriage of political openness since late 1980s. The situation seems to be getting worse in the international context of Post-Asian Economic Crisis and Post-September 11 anti-terrorism.

Interpreting Chinese Tradition: A Clansmen Organization in Singapore, pp. 72 - 90
SELINA CHING CHAN (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE)
This paper takes the case of a Pang clansmen organization in Singapore and examines how its activities objectify Chinese tradition and negotiate identity and nationalism. I argue that these activities celebrated within the national boundaries contribute to the reinforcement of Chinese tradition and celebration of Singaporean Chinese identity within Singapore's multi-ethnic society. In addition, joint activities and other linkages to the Pangs in their homeland in China further bind the Pangs from different places together, forming a larger imagined community in a post-national world. These connections between the Pangs in different localities reveal how the Chinese identity has extended beyond the borders of the nation state. Meanwhile, the activities in the 'homeland' have also led the Singaporean Pangs to realize the differences between themselves and their counterparts living in mainland China and thus further asserted their identity of being a Singaporean Chinese.

Deconstructing 'Japanisation': Reflections from the "Learn from Japan" Campaign in Singapore, pp. 91 - 106
THANG LENG LENG (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE)
S. K. GAN (JAPAN CULTURAL SOCIETY)
In the late 1970s, like many countries dazzled by Japan's post WW2 economic success, Singapore embarked on a 'Learn from Japan' effort in the hope that Japanese success would provide a model to help the country succeed in its economic restructuring. This paper traces the developments of several initiatives during the 'learn from Japan' movement. It argues that despite the apparent zealousness towards Japan, Singapore still 'looks West' in general'. In this context, admiration towards Japan stems from its ideology of wakon yosai (Japanese spirit, Western technology), where Western practices and models are 're-conditioned' to suite an Asian context. The paper concludes with a glimpse at developments in the 1990s; although the 'learn from Japan' movement in Singapore has officially ended with Japan's economic recession, the Japanese experience is still examined. In the recent years, Japanese pop-cultural influences in Singapore and Asia have further revived the debates on 'Japanization'.

Electoral Systems, Representational Roles and Legislator Behaviour: Evidence from Hong Kong, pp. 107 - 120
IAN HOLLIDAY (TRINITY COLLEGE)
MICHAEL GALLAGHER (CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)
This paper reports the results of a test of the relationship between electoral systems, role perceptions and legislator behaviour. The research is based on a study of Hong Kong's Legislative Council (LegCo), whose members are elected by a variety of routes. A sample of LegCo members were interviewed about their own perceptions of their role and their behaviour, with reference both to the way they divide their time between legislative and constituency duties, and to their representational focus. It is thus possible to assess the impact of differing electoral systems on the way they behave, and to estimate the salience of electoral system compared with role perceptions in determining a legislator's behaviour. The findings confirm important electoral system effects, though role perception effects, mediated by party, are also significant.

Japanese Linguistics
Syncope in the Te-form with Auxiliary Verbs, pp. 121-138.
JUNJI KAWAI (UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY).
In Modern Japanese, deletion of 0a segment inside a word, or "syncope", is frequently observed in informal/casual speech or in fast speech, especially when the te-form of a verb, which roughly corresponds to the present participle in English, is followed by a vowel-initial auxiliary verb or by a consonant-initial auxiliary verb, /simaw/. In this paper, following a brief introduction of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993), I account for syncope observed in Modern Japanese by means of constraint interaction and constraint reranking. In formal speech, faithfulness constraint MAX-IO (i.e. no deletion of segments) is ranked higher than such markedness constraints as *LAB (i.e. no labials), ONSET (i.e. no onsetless syllables) and *V (i.e. no vowels), so that segments in the underlying representation are preserved in the surface form. In informal speech, on the other hand, context-free constraints MAX-C-IO (i.e. no deletion of consonants) and MAX-V-IO (i.e. no deletion of vowels) are demoted below *LAB and *V, respectively. This results in the deletion of labials and vowels from the place where such segments are not protected by highly-ranked constraints or where the deletion does not incur serious constraint violation, such as that of undominated CODACOND (i.e. coda consonants are placeless) or *COMPLEX (i.e. no complex onset or coda)

The Use of kare/kanojo in Japanese Society Today, pp. 139 - 155
YASUKO OBANA (SHINSHU UNIVERSITY)
This paper aims to discuss the use of kare/kanojo (he/she) in Japanese society today, in order to elucidate the socio-psychological significance of these terms. Based on questionnaires and interviews recently surveyed in Japan, the paper will discuss what categories of people are more likely referred to as kare/kanojo, what social factors affect the use of these terms. The paper finds that compared with the time when Hinds (1975) surveyed, the use of kare/kanojo has dramatically changed, and it is notable that these terms are more frequently used and refer to more varied types of people. However, they are not merely used at random, either. Some emotional detachment toward the person referred to is needed as a trigger of the occurrence of kare/kanojo.

Japanese and Non-Japanese Perception of Japanese Communication, pp. 156 - 177
MICHAEL HAUGH (UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND)

Graduate Research Essay
A Mobile Phone of One's Own: Japan's "Generation M", pp. 178 - 194
RAQUEL HILL (UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO)
Although the mobile phone has now become a symbol of globalization and is an indispensable item in our daily lives, it was Japanese youth who were amongst the first in the world to adapt this instrument and turn it into an icon. This paper examines the ways in which the youth of Japan have reappropriated the mobile phone (keitai-denwa) so that it is no longer a mere tool for "communication": unique innovations such as the attachment of straps, downloading of ring tones, and technology which incorporates e-mail, Internet, digital camera and video functions, mean that the mobile phone allows Japanese youth to express their "individuality." This paper explores the psychology behind their use of mobile phones, placing it in a larger cultural framework, and looks at claims by Japanese researchers that the mobile phone has led to changes in the way that young people relate to their friends and even their family. Contemporary media including advertising pamphlets, television campaigns, and magazine articles are analyzed in order to reveal the profound relationship between Japan's Generation "M" (mobile and moneyed) and their consumption of a tool that seems to embody all that is necessary for survival in the twenty-first century.

Review Article
History, Memory and the Nation: Remembering Partition
G. Pandey, Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India, pp.195-205
TONY BALLANTYNE (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO)
Volume 4, No. 2 (December 2002)
All articles and essays in this issue can be downloaded as PDF documents.

Guest Editorial
Scrutinising Change in Island Southeast Asia
SARAH TURNER (McGILL UNIVERSITY), pp. 5 - 7

Articles
Balinese Music, Tourism and Globalisation
HENRY JOHNSON (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO), pp. 8 - 32
Balinese music and cultural tourism are examined in order to illustrate the invented traditions and contexts of performance in Bali, and in terms of the wider influences of globalisation. The first part of the paper explores music and tourism in terms of hotel tourism in Bali. As well as including a documentary of the development of tourism in Bali from the early years of the twentieth century, the study focuses mainly on the rise of mass tourism in the latter part of that century when Balinese culture was adapted and invented specifically for visiting tourists. For the music researcher, these new contexts of performance provide windows into understanding contemporary aspects of Balinese culture. The article also extends the study to include other influences of globalisation with a discussion of locating Bali and Balinese music in the contexts of other cultures. Here, the music researcher is challenged to question where tourism and/or travel is located in connection with music excursions by Balinese and non-Balinese performers and listeners.

Otonomi Daerah: Indonesia's Decentralisation Experiment
RICHARD SEYMOUR AND SARAH TURNER (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO & McGILL UNIVERSITY), pp. 33 - 51
This paper draws on recent and ongoing experiences in Indonesia to examine in detail the decentralisation process occurring there. After contextualising the Indonesian case, including a brief outline of the structure of the 1999 Otonomi Daerah (regional autonomy) laws, an analysis of the latter is undertaken. From this, six key problems emerge. These include the inappropriate level of autonomy, a lack of improvement in real fiscal autonomy, and insufficient finance. In addition, resource-rich regions are favoured, a number of 'grey areas' need to be resolved, and the laws have been implemented within an inappropriate time scale, raising questions regarding human resource capabilities. All are complex problems situated within an uncertain political environment, which in turn raises the question of whether Otonomi Daerah is actually working towards effective decentralisation in the Indonesian context.

Neo-Modern Islam in Suharto's Indonesia
MALCOLM CONE (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO), pp. 52 - 67
This paper is an investigation of the liberal humanist tradition in Indonesian Islam that, in the period from 1968-1999, enjoyed the support of the New Order Government of Suharto in Indonesia. The paper argues that there was an elective affinity between the objectives of the New Order Government and this liberal humanist tradition, because the defining characteristic of this governmental support was the promotion of a privatised Islam that eschewed political life, concentrating instead on education, ijtihad and ascesis. The field work for this investigation was carried out at the Ciputat campus of the Islamic University in Jakarta and with Indonesian Islamic scholars in Islamic teaching foundations in Jakarta and Bandung. The Islamic scholars in these teaching institutions justified their position in reference to a long liberal humanist tradition in Islamic education in Indonesia. In this they reaffirmed the arguments put forward by Ibn Taymiyya, Al Mawardi and Ibn Kaldun, that there is a necessary separation between Islam as practice, from the oft-repeated call for an Islamic state.

Aceh: Democratic Times, Authoritarian Solutions
ANTHONY SMITH (ASIA PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES), pp. 68 - 89
The year 2001 has been, so far, the worst year on record for conflict related deaths in Aceh. Despite major democratic changes within Indonesia, Aceh continues to be subject to a military crack-down that is barely distinguishable from the methods employed under the rule of Soeharto. In particular, the Indonesian security forces do not draw clear distinctions between armed insurgents and non-combatant NGO critics of government policy. Both groups have been targeted. This article assesses that the causes of the conflict in Aceh are not simply based on either ethnic or religious difference. On this point, the insurgency in Aceh is very commonly misunderstood‚ both by the Indonesian government and the international media‚ as being somehow Islamic in character. However, the Free Aceh Movement do not resemble an Islamist movement, and instead tend to stress historical and ethnic difference. It is the case, however, that resistance to Indonesian authority has become more and more evident in Aceh only since the 1970s, as a result of massive human rights abuses by the security forces and economic exploitation. By 1999, it seemed that the majority of Acehnese had come to favour independence. Thus the alienation of the Acehnese people is more recent than many have claimed, and much of the blame rests with the security forces "shock therapy" tactics that have slowly, but surely, turned large numbers of Acehnese towards the independence cause ‚ the exact opposite of what the security forces have attempted to achieve.

Papua: Moving Beyond Internal Colonisalism?
ANTHONY SMITH AND ANGIE NG (ASIA PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES), pp. 90 - 114
On 16 August 2001, President Megawati Sukarnoputri made an apology to the Papuan people for the injustices of the past. The recent history of Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya) has been a troubled one. Papua was forced into the Republic of Indonesia under controversial circumstances, and subsequent human rights abuses and heavy exploitation of resources served to keep alive demands for autonomy and independence‚ demands that became highly evident once Soeharto's authoritarian regime came to an end in May 1998. Many Papuan leaders and activists have characterized their plight as being a colonial possession of the government in Jakarta, and this gives rise to a discussion of "internal colonialism". However since reformasi (political reform) in Indonesia occurred, Papua has been given far more control over its own destiny. Regional autonomy delivered a great deal of power to Papua, including retention of much of the revenue earned in the province. In the sense that Papuan authorities now control much of their own affairs, it could be argued that Papua has moved beyond "internal colonialism" ‚ or at least is no longer under the tight political control of Jakarta. However, not all vestiges of the Soeharto era are in the past. Since August 2000 an alarming crackdown by security forces has seen human rights violations against pro-independence activists, including the death of Presidium leader Theys Eluay in November 2001 at the hands of Special Forces soldiers. The problem of ongoing human rights abuses mean that charges of "internal colonialism" are still quite widespread within Papua, and continues to undermine the internal legitimacy of Jakarta's rule in the province.

Human Development and the Urban Informal Sector in Bandung, Indonesia
EDI SUHARTO (BANDUNG SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFARE), pp. 115 - 33
This paper deals with identifying the relationships between the urban informal sector and poverty. The focus is on street traders in Bandung, Indonesia, and the use of social and economic indicators to examine the urban informal sector. The findings show that although the street traders are not the poorest in society, they are still living in deprivation and vulnerability, especially when measured by their economic capital. When judged against the standard Indonesian poverty line, it was found that some street trader incomes were able to rise above it and, on average, street trading provided a favourable source of income compared to other alternatives for the poor, such as unskilled manual labour. Nevertheless, taking a broader approach, the multiplication of poverty line, it was highlighted that 80 percent of the street traders interviewed could still be categorised as being poor and vulnerable. Perhaps more encouraging however, was the finding that, using other human development indexes, such as human and social capital, the street trader households surveyed mostly had adequate basic education, and access to health services and housing facilities, although their opportunities to participate in social activities seemed to be limited.

The Sultanate of Brunei and Regime Legitimacy in an Era of Democratic Nation-States,
NAIMAH TALIB (UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY), pp. 134 - 47
Since gaining independence in 1984, the oil-rich Sultanate of Brunei has demonstrated its ability to maintain stability and internal cohesion within a semi-traditional political framework, despite demands for political participation and the problems associated with economic modernization. This paper examines the challenges faced by Brunei since independence. It also considers the various sources of legitimacy that are available to a monarchy determined to maintain its hold on political power. It assesses the role of ideology and religion as instruments of legitimacy and the extent to which they are used as bases for political action.

Graduate Research Essay
Democratic Discourses in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines
CHé CHARTERIS (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO), pp. 148 - 76
Discourses on democracy are characterised by extreme fragmentation. Whilst examining three case study countries, namely Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, this study highlights this diversity with respect to the democratic discourses of governments and non-government organisations (NGOs). Initially, through a review of academic literature, it becomes clear that the debate over whether or not democracy is a culturally bound ideology is a key point of difference. Around this debate there have emerged three definable discourses on democracy, namely liberal discourses, cultural relativist discourses, and syncretic/popular discourses. In all three case study countries, these discourses were found to be competing. Whereas the Indonesian, Thai, and Filipino governments and international NGOs mobilised liberal discourses on democracy, there was more discursive diversity apparent amongst regional and local NGOs. These findings have important implications in that the culturally relative and syncretic/popular discourses mobilised by some local and regional NGOs can be argued to be forms of resistance to Western-founded liberalism.

Short Story
Seno Gumira Ajidarma 'Destination: The Land of Never-ending Sunset'
PAM ALLEN (UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA), pp. 177 - 82

Review Article
Suharto: Father of Development?
R.E. Elson, Suharto A Political Biography
NICHOLAS TARLING (UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND), pp. 183 - 92
Volume 4, No. 1 (June 2002)
All articles in this issue can be downloaded as PDF files.

Articles
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Historiography of Sikhism
TONY BALLANTYNE (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO) PDF File, 168 KB

On The Overseas Chinese Secret Societies of Australia
CAI SHAOQING (NANJING UNIVERSITY) PDF File, 144 KB

Norman Kirk, The Labour Party and New Zealand's Recognition of The People's Republic Of China
DAVID McCRAW (UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO) PDF File, 108 KB

Globalization and Fiscal Management in Hong Kong
JERMAIN LAM (CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG) PDF File, 132 KB

Mainstream Attitudes Towards Burakujümin
ALASTAIR MCCLAUGHLIN (CHRISTCHURCH POLYTECHNIC) PDF File, 264 KB

Newspaper Coverage of the 2000 Election in Japan
CHRIS RUDD (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO) PDF File, 132 KB
Graduate Research Essay

Dam Building, Dissent, and Development: the Emergence of the Three Gorges Project
JAMES BEATTIE (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO) PDF File, 156 KB
Chinese Letters

The Epistolary World of a Reluctant 17th Century Chinese Magistrate: Yuan Hongdao in Suzhou
DUNCAN CAMBELL (VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON) PDF File, 384 KB

Review Article
Japanese Literature as a Modern Invention Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, eds., Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature
ROY STARRS (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO) PDF File, 72 KB
Volume 3, No. 2, (December 2001)
The full text of the following articles in this edition of the NZJAS can be downloaded in PDF format:

Laurence Wai-teng Leong, Consuming the Nation: National Day parades in Singapore, PDF document, 98 KB

Erik Kolig, Modernisation without secularisation: Civil pluralism, democratisation and re-Islamisation in Indonesia, PDF document, 176 KB

Russell Smyth, Labour market reform in China's state-owned enterprises: a case study of Post-Deng Fushun in Liaoning Province, PDF document, 220 KB

Peter Oblas, In defence of Japan in China: one man's quest for the logic of sovereignty, PDF document, 135 KB

Neville Bennett, White discrimination against Japan: Britain, the Dominions and the United States, 1908 - 1928, PDF document, 118 KB

Nanyang Guo, Interpreting Japan's interpreters: the problem of Lafcadio Hearn, PDF document, 178 KB

Nie Jing-bao, Refutation of the claim that the ancient Chinese described the circulation of blood: a critique of scientism in the historiography of Chinese medicine, PDF document, 148 KB

Graduate Research Essay
Stephen McDowall, In lieu of flowers: the transformation of space and self in Yuan Mei's (1716 - 1798) Garden Records, PDF document, 151 KB

Commentary
Tim Beal, Ghosts of the past: the Japanese history textbook controversy, PDF document, 93 KB
​Volume 3, No. 1 (June 2001)
The full text of the following articles in this edition of the NZJAS can be downloaded in PDF format:

Waiming Ng, Popularization and localization of sushi in Singapore: an ethnographic survey, PDF document, 172 KB

John Makeham, Interpreting Mencius, PDF document, 215 KB

Zang Xiaowei and Li Lulu, Ethnicity and earnings determination in urban China, PDF document, 220 KB

Rumi Sakamoto, The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's military sexual slavery: A legal and feminist approach to the "Comfort Women" issue, PDF document, 135 KB

Masanori Matsumoto and Yasuko Obano, Motivational factors and persistence in learning Japanese language, PDF document, 295 KB

Tony Ballantyne, State, power and knowledge in South Asian historiography, PDF document, 203 KB

Graduate Research Essay
Dorothy McMenamin, Domiciled Europeans in India, PDF document, 472 KB

Area Update
Tim Beal, Bush Clouds Korean Sunshine, PDF document, 93 KB

Extended Review Article
Paul Harrison, Making sense of Buddhism in theory and practice, PDF document, 93 KB
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