New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies  (NZJAS)

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VOLUMe 25, NO 1 (June 2023)
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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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Volume. 20, NO. 2 (December 2018)
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 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. 1 (JUNE 2008)

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

​CONTENTS
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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
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​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)
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Reviews
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​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
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​​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
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