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Becoming Local “Foreigner”: Meanings of Japanese Language Education among Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia, Taku Suzuki
Confronting Japanese Ethnonational Constraint and (Re)Inheriting Spanish Language: Borders, Identities, Imagination, Michiyo Takato
Heritage Diversified: Inheriting “Japaneseness” at a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United States, Neriko M. Doerr and Kiri Lee
Rethinking Japanese “Heritage” in the Homeland, Ayako Takamori
Cultural Politics of Teaching Heritage Language: Chinese and Vietnamese Children in Osaka, Japan, Yuko Okubo
Morality against Modernity: The Case of Takeuchi Yoshimi, Viren V. Murthy
Nation, History and Ethics in Post-imperial China, Axel Schneider
Lu Xun’s Dilemma between Huxley and Nietzsche, Christian Uhl
Modernity and the Idea of Cosmopolitan Ethics in Wartime Japan, Christopher S. Goto-Jones
Defining the Local at the Margins: "Local Botanicals" and "Eastern Medicine" as a Manifestation of Korean Identity, 1236-1610,
Soyoung Suh
Materia Medica, Natural History, and the Concept of Locality in Ancient and Early Dynastic Vietnam, C. Michele Thompson
An Atlas of Herbal Tectonics: Mapping Materia Medica in Early Modern China, Carla S. Nappi
Localizing Species: Defining Biological Borders and Coining Local Emblems in Pre-modern China, Martina Siebert
Revisiting the Commodified Transnational Marriage by Examining the Policy of Abolishing the Profit-oriented Transnational Marriage Brokering Business in Taiwan, Hsun-Hui Tseng
International Marriages Overcoming Korean Homogeneity and Nationalism, Byoungkook Park
Socio-economic Impacts of Transnational Marriage Migration on Vietnam's Bride-sending Areas: Case Study of Can Tho Province, Ngoc Yen Le Hoang
Sweet Dreams, Sour Endings: Experiences of Vietnamese Immigrants' Spouses to South Korea and Taiwan Returning to Vietnam, Daniele Belanger, Hye-Kyung Lee, and Khuat Thu Hong
"A Good Type": Transforming 19th-Century Tourist Photographs of Japan into Anthropological Data, David R. Odo
The Missionary Exhibit: A Frustration and a Promise for Franz Boas and the American Museum of Natural History, Erin L. Hasinoff
"China for the Anthropologist!”: Franz Boas, Berthold Laufer, and a Road Not Taken in Early American Anthropology, Laurel Kendall
Orientalist against Orientalism: Korea and Stewart Culin’s Anthropology of the 1890s, Robert Oppenheim
From Reliquary to Ritual Altar: Dharani Inscriptions in Relic Crypts of Liao-dynasty Pagodas, Youn-mi Kim
Hidden Power of Text: Rethinking the Buddhist Book-cult and the Use of Dharma Relics in South Asia, Jinah Kim
Of Amulets and Incantatory Power, Paul Copp
The Manuscript Culture of Tibetan Dharanis at Dunhuang, Jacob P. Dalton
Americans and Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Vietnamese Landscape, David A. Biggs
Railways and Deforestation in Colonial India: A Case Study of the Punjab, 1859-1884, Pallavi V. Das
Japan Sinks! Natural-human Interactions on the 19th-20th Century Echigo Plain, Philip C. Brown
Engineering Empire: The Dujiangyan Waterworks and the Persistence of Water Management in West China, Ruth Mostern
Publication Police and Scholarly Prosthetics: Colonial Censorship and Studies of Modern Korean Literature, Kyeong-Hee Choi
Colonial Madness: Psychiatry under Japanese Colonial Rule, Theodore Jun Yoo
How Useful is the Concept of Colonial Governmentality for Colonial Korea under Total War?, Takashi Fujitani
Convincing Performances: Colonial Governmentality and Public Practice in Wartime Korea, 1937-45, Todd A. Henry
Publication Police and Scholarly Prosthetics: Colonial Censorship and Studies of Modern Korean Literature, Keun-Sik Jung
Efforts to Reduce Academic Pressure in Japan: Translation and Implementation of the Relaxed Education Policies, Chris Bjork
Growing Curriculum Differentiation and Its Implications for Inequality in Korean Education, Hyunjoon Park
Curriculum Transformation in China: Trends in Student Perceptions of Classroom Practice and Engagement, Jennifer Adams and Tanja Carmel Sargent
Selling Civilization: Chinese Art in the Liuli Chang, Di Yin Lu
Collective Identity and Poetry Exchange among Ming-loyalists: The Case of Ye Shaoyuan, Xiaoquan Zhang
Sheikhs and Samurais: Léon Roches and the French Imperial Project, Dana Irwin
"Panda-brand Cigarettes” and Japanese Nationalism: Eto Jun Meets Deng Xiaoping October 1978, Robert J. Hoppens
History Steps Back: New Shifts in the PRC’s Official Discourse on Mongolia, Natalia Lisenkova
Imperialism and the Politics of Condolence: Ritual, Protocol and the Presentation of “Oriental” in Nineteenth-Century Choson-Qing
Relations, Joshua Van Lieu
History and Empire: Explaining British Expansion in Asia, James L. Hevia
Virtual Colonialism: Reading Kidam, a Korean Horror (2007), Kyung Hyun Kim
Hollywood Reconstruction/Re-imagination of the “Feminine” in the Asian Extreme Cinema, Hunju Lee
Extreme Cinema, Global Branding and Asian Gnosis, Gary G. Xu
Transcendence Noir: Metalmorphosis and Post-human Biopolitics in Asian Extreme Films, Jiayan Mi
Textual and Sartorial Dissimulation: Li Zhi and Montaigne, Rivi Handler-Spitz
The Coming of the Commercial Age and the Rise of the Novel in China and Britain, Ning Ma
The Loss of the Tragic and the Rise of Modernity: A Comparative Study of Ming Southern Drama and English Renaissance Theatre,
Liang Lu
Novelizing the Nation: Vernacular Fiction and Early Modernity in China and Europe, Daniel Dooghan
Citizen or Stranger? The Political Integration of Internal Migrants in Mumbai, Rameez Handy
Theory of Ethnic Antagonism and South Korea’s Split Labor Market: The Role of Civil Society, Joon K. Kim
Governance and Effective Policymaking for Immigrants in Japan, Deborah J. Milly
Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, Erin A. Chung
Taming the Tribal Chiefs of Balochistan: Is Time Running out for Pakistan?, Rajesh Kumar
Mud, Compassion and Power in the Negotiation of Religious and Political Authority in the Himalayas: The Patronage of Togden
Shakya Shri’s Renovations of the Stupas of Nepal, Amy P. Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Peace by Piece: Traditional Leaders and Conflict Mitigation in Aceh, Shane J. Barter
Datus or Deviants? Lumads Caught in the Cultural Crossfire between “Traditional” Political Authority and the “Modern” Philippine State, Oona T. Paredes
The Korean National Treasures System: Exposing the Link and its Impact on Korean Modern Art, Virginia H. Moon
Reflexive Study of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s Exhibition (1983-2007), Ying-Ying Lai
A Museum of and for the Indian Nation, Kristy K. Phillips
Transcending National Art History: The Politics of the Japanese Pavilion at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Inhye Kang
Art Pedagogy in Colonial India and the Creation of a Category Called Modern Indian Art, Atreyee Gupta
Whose Automobility? The Production of Hierarchical Space in Urban South China, Jun Zhang
Heartfelt Driving: Discourses on Manners, Emotions, Safety in the Era of Mass Motorization in Japan, Joshua Hotaka Roth
Off Limits: Taxi Driver Perceptions of Dangerous People and Places in Kunming, China, Beth E. Notar
Accidents and Health in Motorized Malaysia, Thomas A. Williamson
Fiji’s Globe-trotting Water and Singapore’s Stay-at- home Water Wally: Thoughts on the Local Politics of Water as Healthful
Beverage, Global Commodity and Scarce Resource, Martha Kaplan
Buddhist Temple Food in South Korea: Interests and Agency in the Reinvention of Tradition in the Age of Globalization, Seungsook Moon
You Lucky Dog: The Culinary Fate of the Canine in the Age of Global Postdomesticity, Robert Ji-Song Ku
Karatani in Korea, Serk-Bae Suh
"Third-Nationals": Triangulating the Zainichi Korean Subject, Christopher D. Scott
All the Texts are Japanese, All the Critics from the West: The Importance of Translating Japanese Literary Criticism, Rebecca
Copeland
Fantasy as Methodology: Simone de Beauvoir and Second-wave Japanese Feminism, Julia C. Bullock
Are You Serious? Authenticity and Humor in Zen Advertisements, Shoji Yamada
What's So Funny? The Inverted Rhetoric of Zen Cartoons, Gregory P. Levine
Popularizing Zen Gardens, Miyuki Manabe-Katahira
The Development of Zen Style in South Korea, Eunjoo Huh
The Japan-Korean Negotiations over Claims Settlement as the Dismantling of Empire in Progress: The Exchange of People and Goods under U.S. Control, Toyomi Asano
Negotiations for the Normalization of Korea-Japan Relations and the Emergence of East Asian International Society, Ki Jeong Nam
After Empire: South Korea and Its Monarchical Past, Christine J Kim
"The Only Lawful Government in Korea": The 1965 Treaty on the Basic Relations of the Republic of Korea and Japan, Won Deog Lee
Medieval Japanese Tendai Positions on the Perfect-sudden Precepts and Lineage Claims, Paul Groner
Appropriating an Immortal: The Obaku School’s Strategic Use of Lineage as Seen in the Text Tozuihen, James M. Baskind
Lineage Beyond Chan: Song Sectarian Histories, Elizabeth Morrison
Master and Lineage as Tropes in Song-Dynasty Alchemical Literature, Clarke Hudson
Education, Politics and the State in Hong Kong, Paul J. T. F. Morris
Returning to the Roots or Opening up to the World? The Role of the BJP’s Education Policy in India after the Economic Reforms, Marie C. Lall
Creating Good Citizens, or a Competitive Workforce, or Just Plain Political Socialisation? Tensions in the Aims of Education in
Singapore, Christine Han
"The Opportunity of China?" Education as a Political Tool in the People’s Republic, Edward Vickers
Politics and Education in Japan’s Junior High History Textbooks, Peter Cave
The Artistic Nationalism of the École de Japon, 1910-1940, Bert Winther-Tamaki
Art to Represent the Nation: China’s First National Art Exhibition of 1929, Julia F. Andrews
The Role of Buddhism in Colonialist and Nationalist Enterprises in India, Sonya R. Quintanilla
Reversing the Cultural Order: Naito Konan’s Art Historical View, Tamaki Maeda
Contradictory Perceptions: Quality of Democracy in Malaysia in Comparative Perspective, Bridget Welsh
Quality of Democracy in Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, Min-Hua Huang
Quality of Democracy in Thailand, Robert B. Albritton
Quality of Democracy in Asia, Yun-han Chu
Finding “Place” in the World: The Currency of Local Culture in Interwar Japan, Hoyt J. Long
Brazilian Newspapers and Japanese Literature(s), Ted Mack
Beyond Fuzhou Road: Local Publishing Centers and Reading Communities in Late Qing and Republican China, Robert J. Culp
Sino-Japanese Antiquarianism at the Turn of the Century, Shana J. Brown
Sitting at the Grown-Ups’ Table: Exhibiting Chinese Art outside of China, East and West, Katharine Burnett
Do Not Send Ming or Later Pictures: Charles Lang Freer and Collecting Chinese Painting, Ingrid Larsen
Common Culture for a Thousand Ages: Wang Yiting and Sino-Japanese Artistic Projects of the 1920s and 1930s., Walter B. Davis
Warring Countries, Transnational Cinemas, Shuttling Stars—Wartime Affective Politics through the Lens of Li Xianglan (aka Yamaguchi Yoshiko), Yiman Wang
The Politics of “Speciesism”: the Animated Wartime “Other(s)” in "Princess Iron Fan" and "Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors", Yan Du
Development and Significance of “Movie of the Greater East Asia” in WWII, Shuk Ting Yau
The Changing Images of Japan in Postwar Movies about World War II, Liu Hui
For the Greater East Asian Empire: Korea, Japan and Occupation Cinema, Kate E. Taylor
Nostalgia and Anxiety: Migration and Ethnic Identity of Chosonjok (Korean-Chinese), Wang-bae Kim
Taiwanese Nationhood and the Challenges of Similitude: Can Chinese Marital Immigrants Become Full Taiwanese Citizens? Sara
Friedman
International Migration and Its Impact on Nationalism in Japan, Apichai Shipper
In the Shadow of the Tributary System: Wokou, Haikou and Kanhe Maoyi, Patrizia Carioti
The Economic Interaction between Chinese Outlaws and Japanese Pirates in Sixteenth Century Japan, Maria Petrucci
Wokou or Haikou: A Socio-political Distinction? Paola Calanca
Buddhist Teachings Serving Confucian Needs: The Reformulation of the Buddhist Theory of Two Truths by the Non-Buddhist Elite in
the Early Tang, Tao Jin
Seeking Royal Legitimacy after Homicide: Problems with the Institutionalization of the Buddhist Death Ritual of Water and Land in the Early Choson Dynasty, Mihwa Choi
King Sejo's Buddhist View and Confucian Statecraft in Choson Korea, Jongmyung Kim
Buddhism as an Anticolonial Force: The 9th King of Sikkim Thuthop Namgyal’s Perception of Buddhism as Seen in The History of Sikkim (‘Bras ljongs rgyal rabs), Kalzang D. Bhutia
The Impact of the Views of Kings on Sri Lankan Buddhism, Soorakkulame Pemarathana
Constructing Frontiers: Ainu Tribal Identities and Imperial Imaginings in mid-19th century Ezo, Christopher D. Loy
Filmmaking at the Borderline: Lee Sang-il and the Resident Korean Films in the 21st Century, Noboru Tomonari
Unnatural Residents and National Identity: The Politics of Citizenship and Naturalization in Postwar Japan, Michael Strausz
Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga) and Japan’s Taiwan, Jennifer Rudolph
The Language Life of Desperate Houses: Filipina Women Married to Japanese Men, Janet K. Fair
Undoing Exception: Arbitrary Detention in Thailand Since 1958, Tyrell C. Haberkorn
The Ban and its Exceptions: Forced Labor and the Reconfiguration of Impunity in Burma, Ken MacLean
The Shan State(less) of Exception: Ethnic Categories, Cold War Histories and Shan Seekers of Refuge in Thailand, Jane M.
Ferguson
Normalizing Impunity: The Militarization of Everyday Life in Kashmir Valley, Haley Duschinski
Trash to Totes: Recycling Materials, Reclaiming Fashion in the Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram
The Lao Fashion Show: Positioning the Exotic, Sandra Cate
Fitting Decisions: Incorporating Fashion Commodities into Popular Hindi Film Costumes, Clare Wilkinson-Weber
The Process of Judicial Modernization in Meiji and Taisho Japan: Osatake Takeki's Neglected Discourse on Law and Meiji Culture, Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Civil Law as Self-Colonization: Surveying Customs in Late Qing and Early Republican China, Jerome Bourgon
Rethinking "Customary Law" in a Comparative Context: The Civil Judicial Process in Colonial Korea, Marie S. Kim
"Backward classes" and "Creamy Layers": Intersectionality in Indian Affirmative Action, Laura D Jenkins
Dropout Rates in Higher Education: A Comparative Study between East Asai and the United States, Doo Hwan Kim, Barbara Schneider,
and Soo-yong Byun
Higher Education Access and Equity among Ethnic Minorities in China, Zhiyong Zhu
Equity in Higher Education: Widening the Concept of Access in India, Kavita Sharma
Lineages and Marriage Networks in Household Registers and Genealogies in Medieval Korea, Byung-giu Son
The Price of Kinship: Genealogies and the Descendents of Confucius, Christopher S. Agnew
The Use of Genealogies in Compiling Local Gazetteers in Pre-1700 China, Joseph R. Dennis
Family Genealogies and Social Mobility in Medieval Korea, Sangkuk Lee
Spatial Corruptions: Place, Rule, and Cattle along the Indian-Bangladesh Border, Jason Cons
Ecologies of Corruption and the Politics of Appropriation in Cambodia, Jonathan Padwe
The Unintended Consequences of Corruption for State Reconstruction: Evidence from Post-Conflict Eastern Indonesia, Claire Smith
Beyond Corruption: Routinization of Contestable Authority, Improvisational Pragmatics and the Police in Northern India, Beatrice Jauregui
A Depoliticized Moment in Comfort Women Discourse: The Comfort Women Issue in South Korea, Kimiko Shibata
The Emergence of the Comfort Women Discourse: The Case of the Semarang Comfort Women and the War Crimes Tribunal, Mayumi
Yamamoto
A Reformed Tale of Exile: Pramoedya's Perawan Remaja dalam Cengkeraman Militer and the Comfort Women Discourse, William B. Horton
Female Image as National Icon: Semantic Transformation of bijin in the Kusakabe Kimbei’s Meiji-Souvenir Photography in the Context of Japanese Visual Culture, Mio Wakita
Japan’s True Views in the Imagery of Edo-Meiji Artists, Rossella Menegazzo
"Photographers’ Dream Comes True:" Nationalism and Photography of Mt. Huang, Yi Gu
National Identity and Photographic Reproductions of Art in Early Twentieth-century China, Yu-Jen Liu
Geo-Encyclopedia, Photography and National Representation in Early Meiji Japan, Gyewon Kim
Driving Growth: Central-local Government Tensions and the Building of the Trans-Java Tollway, Jamie Seth Davidson
Soft-budget Constraints in China's Fiscal Federalism, Lynette H. Ong
All Roads Lead to Beijing: Political Determinants of Regional Distribution of Highways in China, Kun-Chin Lin
The Information Networks between Chinese Communists and Chinese Communities in Malaya/Indonesia during the 1940s, Guo Quan Seng
Malayan Chinese, China, Loyalty and the Cold War, 1954-1963, Pingtjin Thum
A Case-Study of the Overseas Chinese Community’s Problematic Relationship with the Thai State during the Cold War, Wasana Wongsurawat
The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the “Singapore Story,” Yinghong Cheng
Keeping Empire Local: Japanese Manchuria’s Fourth Estate, Emer S. O'Dwyer
Wartime Media Consolidation in Colonial Korea and the Industrialization of Mass Culture, Michael Kim
Futile Persuasion: the Japanese Empire and Media Culture in Wartime Shanghai, Sei Jeong Chin
The Musical Shuttle: Sutra Recitation in the Arts of Medieval Japan, Charlotte D. Eubanks
Loud and Slow: Reading and Re-reading Practices among the Newar, Christoph Emmrich
The Tibetan Chod Ritual: Tantric Embodiment of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, Jeffrey W. Cupchik
Ritual Technology and Performance: Transcription of Sutra Recitation in Ennin’s Journal, Jesse D. Palmer
Outer Space Exploration in China: From National Pride to International Speculation, Serena Liu
From Alchemy to Chemistry and beyond: The Rising State of Chemistry in China and How It is Changing the International Chemistry
Community, Thor Barrera
Brain Korea-21: Linking State, Market and Society for Techno-scientific Excellence, Jitendra Uttam
Multiple Antiquities: Mid-Qing Philology, History and Classicism, Ori Sela
The Role of Philology in Tokugawa Nativism and Exceptionalism, Mark T McNally
Historical Consciousness and Identity in Late Choson Dynasty, Andreas Mueller-Lee
The Ganlu zishu and Tang Manuscript Culture, Imre Galambos
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