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Laying Claim to the Diamond Mountains: Travel and the Historical Imagination,
Ellie Y. Choi
“Imperializing” Space: The Wartime Transformations of Late Colonial
Seoul, 1937-45, Todd A. Henry
Japanese Colonialist Photography: Taiwan as an Itinerary, Joseph R. Allen
Wartime Tourism, Kenneth J. Ruoff
Osh-Almaty-Moscow and Return: Livelihoods in an Undocumented but Accepted
World, Susan Thieme
Shadow Traders in Assam, Malini Sur
Borders, Bagans, and Bazaars: An Ethnography of Transition along the Patkai
Foothills (Northeast India), Dolly Kikon
Survival after Improbable Projects: Comparing Trajectories of Workers following
the Collapse of Plantations and Kolkhozes, Sanjay Barbora
The Memories of Manchukuo and Korean Chinese Minoritization, Hyun Ok Park
Dialogizing Manchukuo Literature: The Use of Language in Gu Ding’s “The
Wilds", Junko N. Agnew
Rethinking Ethnicity through Kobayashi Hideo’s “The Impression of
Manchukuo”, Yukiko Shigeto
Depicting Manchukuo’s Necropolitics: Drugs and Critique in Yuan Xi’s
Beike, Mark Driscoll
Gender, Symbolism, and Power: Ludruk Folk Theatre in East Java, Indonesia,
Carl J. Hefner
The Body Danced as Paradox in a Philippine Religious Festival, Patrick P.
Alcedo
“I am a Woman!”: Gendering Female while Performing Male in Cantonese
Opera, Priscilla Tse
Performing Masculinity in Philippine Folk Forms: Ang Lalaking Pilipino, Ricardo
D. Trimillos
Between Portraits and Icons: Negotiating Commemoration and Devotion in Dunhuang
Family Caves, Winston Kyan
Transforming Objects: Bianxiang as Ritual Agents, David Neil Schmid
The Karma Mandala at Tôji, Cynthea J. Bogel
Mandala Pinball: Female Stagnancy and Agency in Images from the Cult of Tateyama,
Caroline Hirasawa
Where Decentralization Meets Democracy: Donors, Civil Society, Local Government,
and Accountability in Cambodia, Sedara Kim
Compradors or Champions? The Ambiguous Position of "Reformers" in
the Cambodian State, Kheang Un
Is Greed Really Dead? Donor Responses to Conflict in Nepal, Graham K. Brown
From Bureaucratic Authoritarianism to a Patrimonial Oligarchic State: Foreign
Aid and Business Entities in the Trajectory of Cambodia, Andrew Cock
Ajia wa hitotsu?: Twentieth-Century Japanese Sinologists' Vexed Relationship
with Asia, Jason P. Webb
Hometown Abroad: Reconsidering Cultural and Linguistic Identity in Japan
through Hayashi Kyoko's Shanghai, May-yi Shaw
Censorship, Translation, and the Blurring of Literary Boundaries in Early
Twentieth-Century East Asia, Karen Thornber
Traveling Exoticism: Fabricating Nanyang in Sinophone Fiction, Chun-yu Lu
"The Visible Women": Modernity, Medicine, and Venereal Disease in Colonial
Korea, Jin-kyung Park
Achieving the Model Family: Enforcing Population Control and Public Health
Policy in the ROK, 1961-1968, John P. DiMoia
Defining Koreans' Bodies Under Japanese Colonialism (1910-1945), Soyoung
Suh
From the Population Problem to Pre-pregnancy Health: The Politics of Reproduction
in the Prehistory of Family Planning in Taiwan, 1949-1959, Yu-Ling Huang
Sublime Japan: Shiga Shigetaka and a Nation of Landscapes, Nobuko Toyosawa
British Burial Grounds: Landscaping India in the Colonial Cemetery, Sarah
Hoglund
The Journey Home: Oriental Vistas and the Draw of the Picturesque, Niharika
Dinkar
More Capable than Capability? Perceptions of Chinese Landscapes from the
First British Embassy to China, Jodi Eastberg
Malcontent Koreans: A "Ghostly Matter" in the Multiethnic Japanese
Empire, Jinhee Lee
Bodies in Contest: Conflicting Desires over Athletic Body in Colonial Korea,
Sophia J. Kim
Japanese-Korean Mixed-Bloods in Pre-WW2 Texts, Atsuko Aoki
Vedic God as Ritual Actor: The Gods in Relation to Sacrifice, Kathryn McClymond
Siva Crowned King of Madurai, Richard H. Davis
The Daoist Theological Reformation and its Relationship to Existing Deity
Cults, Terry F. Kleeman
A Confucian Theory of Gods and How to Venerate Them, Thomas A. Wilson
From Lab to Market? Strategies and Issues in the Commercialization of Nanotechnology
in China, Philip Shapira
How do Biotechnology Clusters Emerge and Become Sustainable? Exploring the
Role of Government Policy in Europe and the United States, Steven Casper
Kyoto Cluster Culture: Social and Spatial Variations in Japan and the United
States, Kathryn Ibata-Arens
Biobusiness Entrepreneurship in Two Japanese and French Bio-clusters: The
Distinctive Role of Founders' Career and Social Capital, Eric Jolivet
Defamiliarizing the Familiar, Contesting the Boundary: The Self Vision and
Strange Stories of Pu Songling, Lei Jin
Odd Is the New Normal: Embodying Difference in Postwar Japanese Women’s
Fiction, Julia C. Bullock
Female Bodies Translated across the Strait of Korea: The Power of Corporeal
Transformation Accorded Women in Chong Ui-shin’s Plays, John D. Swain
Sick Man, Strong Man, Strange Man: Imagining the Martial Chinese Body in
Republican-Era China, John C. Hamm
Challenging Democracy: Ethnic Tensions in the Post-colonial States of Fiji
and Trinidad, Movindri Reddy
The Philippines and the United States: Postcolonial Constitutional, Maria
Elena P. Rivera-Beckstrom
Emergence of Parliamentary Democracy in India: Colonial Legislatures in Bombay,
United Provinces, and the Central Legislat, Arvind Elangovan
A Peripheral Rebirth of Universal Language: An Evaluation of Bilingual Writing
in the Modern Korean Literature, Sangjin Park
Traveling Ideas: The “Vernacular” in 1920s China and Taiwan, Gang
Zhou
The Modern Japanese Vernacular as a Polyglossic Femme Fatale, Indra Levy
The Triumph of the Vernacular in Vietnam, Stephen O'Harrow
Zomia as a “State-Repelling Space”, James C. Scott
Zomia Remade: Cross-border Relationships among Minority Farmers in China,
Burma, and Laos, Janet C. Sturgeon
As a Social Space, Is the Southeast Asian Massif a Helpful/Functional/Viable
Notion? Jean Michaud
Zomia in the Qing Southwest: Local Responses to the Imperial Enterprise in
Eighteenth-Century Guizhou, Jodi L Weinstein
What Revolution? Calling for a King in Dien Bien Phu, Christian C. Lentz
Chinggis on the Japanese Mind: Images of the Great Khan in 19th-and 20th-Century
Japan, Joshua A. Fogel
Changing Criteria of Authenticity: Old and New Portraits of Chinggis Khan,
Isabelle Charleux Goossaert
A Portrait of the Khan as a Young Man: Buyannemekhü’s “Heroic
Boy Temujin”, Tristra Newyear
The Sacrificed Brother in the "Secret History of the Mongols", Christopher
P. Atwood
Coaching American Players in Chinese Games: Creating Target Culture Experiences,
Moving to the Sidelines, Reviewing Post-game Mental "Films", and Creating
Coachable Learners, Eric T. Shepherd
Coaching of Study Abroad Learners through “Stories”, Hiroaki Kawamura
Coaching of Study Abroad Learners through “Stories”, Mari Noda
“Attending” to the Immersion Experience: Training Students to Listen
Effectively, Phyllis Hy Larson
Appropriating the Chinese Poetic Canon to Serve the Vietnamese Revolution:
Ho Chi Minh’s Prison Diary, Jane Parish Yang
Re-presenting the Past: Photographs as Artifact at My Lai and Nanjing, Karil
J. Kucera
Return of the Prodigy’s Descendents: A Sino-Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu,
Lorraine M. Paterson
Erasians in Britich Asia during the Second Wold War, Felicia Yap
Eurasian Children and the Sepoy Mutiny, Satadru Sen
“Abandoned" Children: The Changing Racial Perceptions of Franco-Vietnamese
Children, Christina E. Firpo
“To Become a Chinaman Again”: Gu Hongming as a Cultural Amphibian,
Chunmei Du
Yokohama Chinatown Between the Sino-Japanese Wars (1894 – 1945): Nationalism,
Acculturation, Collaboration, and Shûmai, Eric C. Han
Conceptualizing the Chinese World: Jinan University, Nanyang Migrants, and
Trans-Regionalism, 1900-1942, Leander Seah
"To Be or Not to Be Chinese": Lim Boon Keng and the Cultural Politics
of Identity, Soon Keong Ong
Inter-cultural Communication and the Changing Business Environment: Cases
of U.S. Companies in China, May H. Gao
Asian-American Business Negotiation and Conflict Management, Leigh Anne Liu
Exploring Human Resource Management Practices in Japanese and Korean Companies,
Hyeon Jeong Park
Margins, Borders, and Frontiers: The Expanding Meaning of “Bianfang” between
the Eighth and the Thirteenth Centuries, Hilde De Weerdt
"The First Pass under Heaven": Shanhai Pass, Manchuria and China, 1860s-1950s,
Dan Shao
The Great Wall and the Cosmotopography of the Northern Song-Khitan Border,
Nicolas Tackett
The Porous Frontier: Trade and Diplomacy across the Qing-Choson Border, Seonmin
Kim
Romanizations for Korean, John B. Whitman
Foreign Tools to Assert Indigenous Identity in Vietnam, Mark J. Alves
The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Romanization Movement, Yuki Takatori
The Current Status of Script Reform in China, Victor H. Mair
Violence, Justice, and a “People’s Democracy” in Kerala, South
India, Ruchi Chaturvedi
Art, Ethnicity, and the Politics of the People in Democratic Malaysia, Lisa
M Todzia
Dressing the Masses and Leading the March: Youth Politics in Indonesia, Doreen
Lee
Intention and Subjection: Attacking a Muslim Artist in Democratic India,
Karin J. Zitzewitz
The Novelty of the Ancient in Suzhou, Peter J. Carroll
Gion Festival and Politics of Tradition in Contemporary Kyoto Neighborhoods,
Eiko Ikegami
The Creation of Modern Landscapes in Nara: The Emperor System and the "Ancient",
Hiroshi Takagi
Trading National for Natural: Reconstructing "Asia" through Regional
Conservation, Anne Rademacher
The Fourth World Conference on Women and the Positionality of Japanese Feminists
in Asia, Linda E. White
Transnational Dimensions of Nepal’s Indigenous Nationalities Movement,
Susan Hangen
Sexual Rights and Activism in Thailand: Nationalism, Transnationalism, Feminism,
and Buddhism in the Construction of Thai Activist Discourses, Megan Sinnott
Democracy Without Labor? The Dynamics of Labor Politics since Democratization
in South Korea, Myung Ji Yang
Organizing for Legitimacy: The Japanese Labor Movement, Irregular Workers,
and the Quest for Political Status, Kristin E. Vekasi
Global Forces, Local Adjustments: Labor Market Reform in Contemporary Japan
and Korea, Jiyeoun Song
Organizing Japan's Non-Regular Workers: An Analysis in US-Japanese Comparative
Perspective, Charles Weathers
The Construction of the New Men in Maoist China and the Soviet Union, Felix
Wemheuer
Famines in Russia and China in Historical Perspective, Stephen Wheatcroft
The Agents of Mao's Famine: In Search of the Soviet Russian Counterpart,
Ralph A. Thaxton
Roles of Grain Procurement Crises in Collectivization in the Soviet Union
and China: A Comparison, Xiaojia Hou
North/South Interfaces in the Korean Peninsula, Valerie Gelezeau
Form-Meaning Associations in toki "When’"Clauses in Japanese:
A Corpus Analysis of Native Speakers' Data using Concordance, Priya Ananth
Kanji-Kana Dichotomy: An Experimental Comparison of Kanji and Kana Processing,
Mohammed Shafiullah
Going to Court? Comparing Social Networks and Attitudes Towards Corruption
in Rural and Urban China, Christine B. Avenarius
Asian International Students' Openness to Counseling, Megumi Omonishi
Ancient World Maps of the Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), Masako
Nakagawa Graham
Limits of Tradition as a Discourse of Civil Society: A Case Study of Peasant
Resistance over Use and Ownership of Land and Natural Resources in East Kalimantan,
Indonesia, Mariko Urano
Visions of Cuba in Christina Garcia's Monkey Hunting, Luisa Ossa
Staging Empire: The Representation of Japan at International Expositions,
Inhye Kang
In Search of Min Sheng in Centennial America, Charles Desnoyers
A Comparative Study of Japanese Diasporas Before World War II: The Philippines
and Hawai'i, Mariko Iijima
Relocating the Local in the Era of Cultural Preservation: Music of the Dolan
People and the Revival of Uyghur Music in Northwest China, Chuen-Fung Wong
The Power of Musical Discourse in a Period of Cultural Renaissance: The Reinvention
of the Mongolian Horse-Head Fiddle, Peter K. Marsh
Muqam and the Construction of a Modern Uyghur Nation, Elise M. Anderson
Cultural Symbols, Spatial Histories, and the Media: Kazakh Nation Building
in Western Mongolia, Jennifer C. Post
The Personal Is Personal: Predicaments of the Lesbian Feminist Subject in
1990s Japan, Karen Lee Kelsky
The Wedding Banquet Revisited: “Contract Marriages” between Korean
Gays and Lesbians, John Song Pae Cho
Crossing the Line: The (Homo)Eroticized Male and Queer Female Identifications
in Japan, James Welker
The Deployment of the “Toujisha” as an Authenticating Strategy in
Current Debates about Sexual Minority Rights in Japan, Mark McLelland
The Government-General’s Policy Towards Resident Japanese in Korea during
the Military Rule Period, Sungyup Lee
Wielding Customs: Women’s Civil Suits in 1910s Colonial Korea, Sungyun
Lim
Rehearsal Print: Imagining Empire in Maeil Shinbo under Military Rule, Michael
I. Shapiro
Making Koreans Japanese: A Gospel for Japan’s New Colonial Subjects, Emily
Anderson
Anonymous Workers, Auxiliary Forces: The Politics of Malaysian Coercion,
Kevin McGahan
The Strength of Weak Ties: Role of Networks in Nepali Migration to South
and Southeast Asia, 1900-2000, Lopita Nath
Life in the "Homeland": Cambodian American Deportees in Cambodia,
Navin Moul
Imaginary Homelands? Perceptions of “Home” in the Global Diaspora
of the Hmong, Grit Grigoleit
People's Border Crossing during the Japanese Imperial Period: On Yaeyama,
the Ryukyu Islands and Colonial Taiwan, Hiroko Matsuda
Reconfiguring Region along the Bohai Gulf, Christopher S. Agnew
Loyalist or Desperado? The International Context of the Execution of Mao
Wenlong, Kenneth M. Swope
Migrants, Captives and Hostages: The Making of Northeast Asia in the Seventeenth
Century, Sun-Hee Yoon
Communist Control, Capitalist Development: The Fragility of Autonomy in Monastic
Education in the Contemporary PRC, Thomas A. Borchert
Vernacular Landscapes of Lao Buddhist Education: 1920-2008, Justin T. McDaniel
War Behind the Frontline: Education in Communist Zones during the Indochina
Wars, Vatthana Pholsena
Literacy, History, and Educational Planning: The Case of the Hmong, John
Duffy
Asian Reality of Forms, Form of Reality: "Imitation" in
the Discourse of Onnagata in the Kabuki Theater, Maki Isaka
Memorandum on Happiness, or the Limits of Visibility: Taiwan's Tongzhi
Movement in Mickey Chen's Documentaries, Guo-Juin Hong
Remembered Materials without Identity: The Artist Books of Theresa Hak Kyung
Cha, Sayumi Takahashi
Acting Real: The Death of Ruan Lingyu and the Discourse of Realism in Early
Chinese Cinema, Jason McGrath
Similar Policies, Different Outcomes: The Politics of Bank Restructuring
in South Korea and Japan (1997-2006), Myung-koo Kang
Chinese Strategy for Reforming Financial Institutions: Growing Out of Non-Performing
Loan, Hong Yung Lee
Financial Crisis and Corporate Reform in Japan: Formal Convergence and Functional
Divergence, Yul Sohn
Religion and Slavery in India, ca. 1600, William R. Pinch
Korean Slavery and Historical Memory, Joy Sunghee Kim
Domestic Bonds: The Roles of Unfree and Purchased People in Late Qing and
Republican Beijing Households, Johanna S Ransmeier
Free and Unfree in Japan and Europe during the Middle Ages, Thomas A. Nelson
Preliminary Reflections on a Buddhist Theory of Justice, James A. Blumenthal
Modern Korean Buddhism and Peacemaking, Chanju Mun
Gyoki and the Bodhisattva Ideal, Ronald S. Green
“Snuffing Out” Humankind's Ego Self, James K. Powell
Politics of Economic Recovery in Thailand and the Philippines, Allen D. Hicken
The Capitalist Embrace: China Ten Years after the Asian Financial Crisis,
Edward S. Steinfeld
Restructuring Regional Ties, T.J. Pempel
Institutions, Economic Recovery, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Indonesia
and Malaysia, Thomas Pepinsky
Contextualizing Technological Relationships:
Early U.S.-Japanese Semiconductor Industry in Transnational Perspective,
Hyungsub Choi
Enacting U.S.-Japan Relations in Satellite Remote-Sensing Systems, Daniel
J. Plafcan
Nanotechnology and U.S.-Japan Relations, Yasumoto Fujita
Achieving Technological Self-Reliance through Foreign Dependency? South Korea’s
Developmental Nationalist Responses to Technology and Knowledge Transfer,
Sang-Hyun Kim
Good Governance, Economic Growth, and the Future of Development in China & India,
Devin K. Joshi
North Korea's Economic Transformation and China's Role as Catalyst and Model
(1998-2006), Mika Marumoto
Work or Babies: How Best to Account for Differences in Fertility? Patricia
Boling
The Irony of Antagonistic Complicity? Neo-Nationalism of Contemporary Korean
and Japanese Cinema, Yung Bin Kwak
Japan-Indonesia Relations during the Detent Period: The Impact of Nixon's
New Asian Policy, Amiko Nobori
Of Wool and Washing Machines: Transformations in Himalayan Trading Networks,
Christina H. Harris
Jade Trade from Burma since 1988, Wen-Chin Chang
Manangi Trade Diasporas in South and Southeast Asia, Prista Ratanapruck
Personal Growth as Metaphor of Historical Transformation, Yan Wang
The Politics of Drifting Bodies in East Asian Art House Cinemas, Kaiman Chang
Rogue Sexuality and Transnational Flows in Vietnam Cinema, Mariam Beevi Lam
Trans-regional Consumption of Stereotypes and Spectacles in East Asia: Jackie
Chan and Golden Harvest in the 1980s, Jeesoon Hong
Walking a Balance Beam: Faith-based NPOs and the Central Party-state, Carol
L. Hamrin
The Chinese YMCA: A Religious NGO in an Authoritarian One-Party State, Charles
A. Keller
Negotiating State-Ethnic Political Relations: Challenge and Potential Among
Christian INGOs in China’s Ethnic Minority Areas, Miwa Hirono
Living History: Catholic Social Involvements in Shanxi, Xiaofei Tu
Tempered Steel, Virgin Lands, and Dis/Abled Bodies: Questions of Nature and
Machine in Maoist Theory and Visual Culture, Tina Mai Chen
Robotic Lacunae: Automata and Mechanical Man in Meiji Literature and Art,
Seth Jacobowitz
Modeling the Post-human: Messages from the Catwalk and the Car Dealership,
Sarah Teasley
Citizen, Soldier, Robot: Figments of Disciplinary Desire in Japan, China,
and the Soviet Union, Aaron William Moore
South Korea's Modeling of Japanese Cultural Policy, Sang Mi Park
The Avant-Garde and the Resident Korean Filmmaking in Japan, Noboru Tomonari
The First K-Wave: Koreaphilia in Imperial Japanese Popular Culture, E.
Taylor Atkins
Translating "Colonial Kitsch" and "National Tradition":
Retelling The Tale of Spring Fragrance, Nayoung Aimee Kwo
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