Back Issues

Critical Asian Studies (2001– )

• Volume 41
  • Number 1 (March 2009)
    • Tyrell Haberkorn – An Unfinished Past: Assassination and the 1974 Land Rent Control Act in Northern Thailand
    • Anupama Roy and Ujjwal Kumar Singh – The Ambivalence of Citizenship: The IMDT Act (1983) and the Politics of Forclusion in Assam
    • Michele R. Gamburd – Advocating for Sri Lankan Migrant Workers: Obstacles and Challenges
    • Lenore Lyons – Transcending the Border: Transnational Imperatives in Singapore's Migrant Worker Rights Movement
    • Hsiao-Chuan Hsia – The Making of a Transnational Grassroots Migrant Movement: A Case Study of Hong Kong's Asian Migrants' Coordinating Body
    • Nicole Constable – Migrant Workers and the Many States of Protest in Hong Kong
    • Amy Sim and Vivienne Wee – Undocumented Indonesian Workers in Macau: The Human Outcome of Colluding Interests
  • Number 2 (June 2009)
    • Katharine E. McGregor – Confronting the Past in Contemporary Indonesia: The Anticommunist Killings of 1965–66 and the Role of the Nahdlatul Ulama
    • Elena V. Barabantseva – Development as Localization: Ethnic Minorities in China’s Official Discourse on the Western Development Project
    • Stig Toft Madsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen – The Political Culture of Factionalism among Hindu Nationalists in Denmark
    • Channapha Khamvongsa and Elaine Russell – Legacies of War: Cluster Bombs in Laos
    • elin o’Hara slavick – Hiroshima: After Aftermath
    • Jamie S. Davidson – Studies of Massive, Collective Violence in Post-Soeharto Indonesia
    • A. Tom Grunfeld – Film Reviews: Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom and They Chose China
    • Oliver Pye – Book Review: Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand
  • Number 3 (September 2009)
    • Yoonkyung Lee – Migration, Migrants, and Contested Ethno-Nationalism: Migration, Migrants, and Contested Ethno-Nationalism in Korea
    • Bert Suykens – The Tribal-Forest Nexus in Law and Society in India: The Tribal-Forest Nexus in Law and Society in India: Conflicting Narratives
    • Theresa Wong and Joel Wainwright – Offshoring Dissent: Offshoring Dissent: Spaces of Resistance at the 2006 IMF/World Bank Meetings
    • Sangtin Writers: Reena, Richa (n), Richa (s), Surbala – Still Playing With Fire: Still Playing With Fire: Intersectionality, Activism, and NGO-ized Feminism
    • Mark Selden et al. – As The Empire Falls: As The Empire Falls: Lessons Learned and Unlearned in "America’s Asia"
    • Jim Peck et al. – Knowledge to Serve What Ends? An Exchange from 1968: Knowledge to Serve What Ends? An Exchange from 1968
    • Marilyn B. Young – Film Reviews: Review of Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem and The Last Ghost of War
  • Number 4 (December 2009)
    • Meredith L. Weiss – Intellectual Containment: The Muting of Students in Semidemocratic Southeast Asia
    • Nel Vandekerckhove – “We Are Sons of This Soil”: The Endless Battle over Indigenous Homelands in Assam, India
    • Leonora C. Angeles and Sirijit Sunanta – Demanding Daughter Duty: Gender, Community, Village Transformation, and Transnational Marriages in Northeast Thailand
    • Ian G. Baird, Keith Barney, Peter Vandergeest, and Bruce Shoemaker – Internal Resettlement in Laos: Reading Too Much into Aspirations: More Explorations of the Space between Coerced and Voluntary Resettlement in Laos
    • Holly High – Internal Resettlement in Laos: Complicities and Complexities: Provocations from the Study of Resettlement in Laos
    • David Ryan and David Fitzgerald – Iraq and Vietnam: Endless Recurrence or Stirrings Still?
    • David Roediger – Tribute: Donald M. Lowe: Asian Studies Scholar, Social Theorist, Marxist Historian
• Volume 40
  • Number 1 (March 2008)
    • Jeff Kingston – Burma's Despair
    • Morten B. Pedersen – Burma's Ethnic Minorities: Charting Their Own Path to Peace
    • Lily Zubaidah Rahim – Fragmented Community and Unconstructive Engagements
    • David Kerr; Laura C. Swinton – China, Xinjiang, and the Transnational Security of Central Asia
    • Birgitte Refslund Sørensen – Humanitarian NGOs and Meditations of Political Order in Sri Lanka
    • John Roosa – President Sukarno and the September 30th Movement
  • Number 2 (June 2008)
    • Wang Hui – Restructuring and the Historical Fate of China's Working Class: A Report on an Investigation into the Tongyu Textile Group of Jiangsu
    • Camilla Orjuela – Reaping the Harvest of Peace?: The Politics of Reconstruction during Sri Lanka's 2002 Peace Process
    • Shi Fayong – Social Capital at Work: The Dynamics and Consequences of Grassroots Movements in Urban China
    • Marc Blecher – When Wal-Mart Wimped Out: Globalization and Unionization in China
    • Shi Tiesheng – Stage Effects
    • Peter F. Bell – The Asian Economic Crisis and Capitalist Restructuring: Two Approaches
    • Giovanni Arrighi – Preamble
    • Marilyn B. Young – Preamble
  • Number 3 (September 2008)
    • Jim Glassman; Bae-Gyoon Park; Young-Jin Choi – Failed Internationalism and Social Movement Decline: The Cases of South Korea and Thailand
    • Andrew Walker; Nicholas Farrelly – Northern Thailand's Specter of Eviction
    • Cathrine Brun – Birds of Freedom: Young People, the LTTE, and Representations of Gender, Nationalism, and Governance in Northern Sri Lanka
    • David Chapman – Tama-Chan and Sealing Japanese Identity
    • Vatthana Pholsena – Highlanders on the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Representations and Narratives
    • Miyume Tanji – U.S. Court Rules in the “Okinawa Dugong” Case: Implications for U.S. Military Bases Overseas
    • Kerry Brown – China's Two Paths
    • Richard C. Kagan; Alfred W. McCoy – Tributes: Nina Shapiro Adams 1943-2007
  • Number 4 (December 2008)
    • Tamara Jacka – Increasing Women’s Participation in Village Government in China: Is It Worth It?
    • Holly High – The Implications of Aspirations: Reconsidering Resettlement in Laos
    • Nicole Constable – Introduction to Distant Divides and Intimate Connections, Part 1: Andolan and the "Muttontown Slave Case"
    • Claudia Liebelt – On Sentimental Orientalists, Christian Zionists, and Working Class Cosmopolitans: Filipina Domestic Workers’ Journeys to Israel and Beyond
    • Marina de Regt – High in the Hierarchy, Rich in Diversity: Asian Domestic Workers, Their Networks, and Employers' Preferences in Yemen
    • Elizabeth Frantz – Of Maids and Madams: Sri Lankan Domestic Workers and Their Employers in Jordan
    • Dawn Starin – Letter from Luang Prabang: World Heritage Designation: Blessing or Threat?
• Volume 39
  • Number 1 (March 2007)
    • Christopher Gerteis – The Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan
    • Christopher Candland – Workers' Organizations in Pakistan: Why No Role in Formal Politics?
    • Vanessa L. Fong – Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China: Introduction — Part 1
    • Rachel Murphy – The Paradox of the State-Run Media Promoting Poor Governance in China: Case Studies of a Party Newspaper and an Anticorruption Film
    • Tiantian Zheng – Performing Media-Constructed Images for First-Class Citizenship: Political Struggles of Rural Migrant Hostesses in Dalian
    • Eric Florence – Migrant Workers in the Pearl River Delta: Discourse and Narratives about Work as Sites of Struggle
    • Elaine Jeffreys – Querying Queer Theory: Debating Male-Male Prostitution in the Chinese Media
  • Number 2 (June 2007)
    • Kenneth Paul Tan; Gary Lee Jack Jin – Imagining the Gay Community in Singapore
    • Robert Tierney – The Guest Labor System in Taiwan: Labor Market Considerations, Wage Injustices, and the Politics of Foreign Labor Brokerage
    • Neville Maxwell – How the Sino-Russian Boundary Conflict Was Finally Settled: From Nerchinsk 1689 to Vladivostok 2005 via Zhenbao Island 1969
    • Vanessa L. Fong – Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China: Introduction — Part 2
    • Yingchi Chu – The New Chinese Citizen and CETV
    • Jens Damm – The Internet and the Fragmentation of Chinese Society
    • Kevin Latham – SMS, Communication, and Citizenship in China's Information Society
    • Jennifer C. Franco; Patricio N. Abinales – Again, They're Killing Peasants in the Philippines: Lawlessness, Murder, and Impunity
    • Robert B. Stauffer, Scholar and Activist: A Tribute by Ben Kerkvliet
    • Arif Dirlik – Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism
  • Number 3 (September 2007)
    • Sheila Nair – The Limits of Protest and Prospects for Political Reform in Malaysia
    • Jennifer Robertson – Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Humanoid Robots and the Posthuman Family
    • Judith Whitehead – Submerged and Submerging Voices: Hegomony and the Decline of the Narmada Bachao Andolan in Gujarat, 1998-2001
    • Teo You Yenn – Inequality for the Greater Good: Gendered State Rule in Singapore
    • Leslie Winston – Beyond Modern: Shimizu Shikin and “Two Modern Girls”
    • Lloyd C. Gardner; Marilyn B. Young – Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Introduction
    • Book Review
  • Number 4: Thematic Issue: Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography: Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics (December 2007)
    • Jennifer Robertson – Ethics and Anthopology: Reality Check (Preface to "Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography: Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics" )
    • Ann-Elise Lewallen – Bones of Contention: Negotiating Anthropological Ethics within Fields of Ainu Refusal
    • Bridget Love – Fraught Fieldsites: Studying Community Decline and Heritage Food Revival in Rural Japan
    • Elise Edwards – An Ethics for Working Up?: Japanese Corporate Scandals and Rethinking Lessons about Fieldwork
    • Tomomi Yamaguchi – Impartial Observation and Partial Participation: Feminist Ethnography in Politically Charged Japan
    • Sabine Frühstuck – New Conversations, New Truths: Commentary on “Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography: Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics”
    • Imran Munir – From Independence to Fundamentalism: Pakistan's Search for Identity
    • Vijay Prashad – Janam's Commitments
    • Leela Fernandes – Book Review
• Volume 38
  • Number 1 (March 2006)
    • Duncan McCargo – Introduction: Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence
    • Satha-Anand Chaiwat – The Silence of the Bullet Monument: Violence and “Truth” Management, Dusun-nyor 1948, and Kru-Ze
    • Duncan McCargo – Thaksin and the Resurgence of Violence in the Thai South: Network monarchy strikes back?
    • Ukrist Pathmanand – Thaksin's Achilles' Heel: The Failure of Hawkish Approaches in the Thai South
    • Jitpiromsri Srisompob – Unpacking Thailand's Southern Conflict: The Poverty of Structural Explanations
    • Sugunnasil Wattana – Islam, Radicalism, and Violence in Southern Thailand: Berjihad di Patani and the 28 April 2004 attacks
    • May Tan-Mullins – Voices from Pattani: Fears, Suspicion, and Confusion
    • Michael K. Connors – War on Error and the Southern Fire: How terrorism analysts get it wrong: Rohan Gunaratna, Arabinda Acharya, and Sabrina Chua. Conflict and Terrorism in Southern Thailand. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2005. xii + 211 pp.
  • Number 2 (June 2008)
    • William A. Callahan – History, Identity, and Security: Producing and Consuming Nationalism in China
    • Sandra Wilson – Family or State?: Nation, War, and Gender in Japan, 1937-45
    • David N. Gibbs – Reassessing Soviet Motives for Invading Afghanistan: A declassified History
    • Ian Douglas Wilson – Continuity and Change: The Changing contours of Organized Violence in Post-New Order Indonesia
    • Chhandasi Pandya – Private Authority and Disaster Relief: The Cases of Post-Tsunami Aceh and Nias
    • Lawrence Rogers – “Siberia Under Snow” by Kuroshima Denji: Translation and introduction by Lawrence Rogers
  • Number 3 (September 2006)
    • Hong Liu – The Transnational Construction of “National Allegory”: China and the cultural politics of postcolonial Indonesia
    • Iain Pirie – Social Injustice and Economic Dynamism in Contemporary Korea
    • Claudia Derichs; Andrea Fleschenberg; Momoyo Huumlstebeck – Gendering Moral Capital: Morality as a Political Asset and Strategy of Top Female Politicians in Asia
    • Jeffrey Kingston – Balancing Justice and Reconciliation in East Timor
    • Rikki Kersten – The Social Imperative of Pacifism in Postwar Japan: Shimizu Ikutarō and the Uchinada Movement
    • Claudia Pozzana; Alessandro Russo – China's New Oder and Past Disorders: A Dialogue Starting from Wang Hui's Analysis
  • Number 4: Special Issue: Recovering Class—Observations from the Subcontinent (December 2006)
    • Ronald J. Herring; Rina Agarwala – Introduction: Restoring Agency to Class: Puzzles from the Subcontinent
    • Vivek Chibber – On the Decline of Class Analysis in South Asian Studies
    • Emmanuel Teitelbaum – Was the Indian Labor Movement Ever Co-opted?: Evaluating Standard Accounts
    • Rina Agarwala – From Work to Welfare: A New Class Movement in India
    • John Harriss – Middle-Class Activism and the Politics of the Informal Working Class: A Perspective on Class Relations and Civil Society in Indian Cities
    • Ronald J. Herring – Why Did “Operation Cremate Monsanto” Fail?: Science and Class in India's Great Terminator-Technology Hoax
    • Leela Fernandes; Patrick Heller – Hegemonic Aspirations: New Middle Class Politics and India's Democracy in Comparative Perspective
• Volume 37
  • Number 1 (March 2005)
    • Nathan Gilbert Quimpo – The Left, Elections, and the Political Party System in the Philippines
    • Elaine Chao – A Study in Social Change: The Domestic Violence Prevention Movement in Taiwan
    • Tamara Jacka – Finding a Place: Negotiations of modernization and globalization among rural women in Beijing
    • Ravi Arvind Palat – On New Rules for Destroying Old Countries
    • Mark T. Berger; Heloise Weber – Beyond U.S. Grand Strategy?: Critical Analysis and World Politics
    • Kristen Nordhaug – The United States and East Asia in an age of financialization
    • Vijay Prashad – American Grand Strategy and the Assassination of the Third World
    • Marika Vicziany – Peter Gowan's “American Grand Strategy”: An Asian Regional Perspective
    • Philip Jones Griffiths – Agent Orange in Viet Nam
    • Sheila Nair – The State of Malaysian Studies
  • Number 2 (June 2005)
    • Mark Lincicome – Globalization, Education, and the Politics of Identity in the Asia-Pacific: The Ethical Dilemma of "East Asian Bioethics"
    • Graeme MacRae – Growing Rice After the Bomb: Where is Balinese Agriculture Going?
    • Jennifer Robertson – Dehistoricizing History: The Ethical Dilemma of "East Asian Bioethics"
    • Ariel Heryanto; Vedi R. Hadiz – Post-authoritarian Indonesia: A comparative Southeast Asian perspective
    • Stephen Mansfield – Lao Hill Tribes: A Race with Oblivion
    • Robert Cribb – Circles of Esteem, Standard Works, and Euphoric Couplets: Dynamics of Academic Life in Indonesian Studies
    • Hamao Shirõ – The execution of Ten'ichibõ: Translated with an Introduction by Jeffrey Angles
    • Kerry Brown – Book Review: Christopher Kaplonski, Truth, History and Politics in Mongolia: The Memory of Heroes. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. 233 pp.
  • Number 3 (September 2005)
    • Saturnino M. Borras Jr.; Jennifer C. Franco – Struggles for Land and Livelihood: Redistributive Reform in Agribusiness Plantations in the Philippines
    • Martin Gainsborough – Between Exception and Rule: Ho Chi Minh City's Political Economy Under Reform
    • Lei Guang – The Market as Social Convention: Rural Migrants and the Making of China's Home Renovation Market
    • Peter Gowan – America, capitalism, and the Interstate System
    • Paul Burkett; Martin Hart-landsberg – Thinking About China: Capitalism, Socialism, and Class Struggle
    • Victor D. Lippit – The Political Economy of China's Economic Reform: Observations on China and Socialism
    • Gene Cooper – Thinking about China: Engaging Burkett and Hart-Landsberg
    • Mobo C. F. Gao – China and Capitalism: If Market Capitalism is Good for the West, Why is Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics Bad?
    • Tai-lok Lui – Bringing Class Back In: China Re-stratified
    • Alvin Y. So – Beyond the Logic of Capital and the Polarization Model: The State, Market Reforms, and the Plurality of Class Conflict in China
    • Zhu Dongli; Rebecca E. Karl translator – Prospects of Economic Transformation: Reflections on China and Socialism
    • John A. Marston – Post-Pol Pot Cambodia
    • David Seddon – Andre Gunder Frank 1929-2005
  • Number 4: Special Issue: Recovering Class—Observations from the Subcontinent (December 2006)
    • Michael Kelly Connors – Hegemony and the Politics of Culture and Identity in Thailand: Ministering Culture
    • Terence Chong – Singapore's Cultural Policy and Its Consequences: Ministering Culture
    • David C. Earhart – Kamikazefication and Japan's Wartime Ideology: All Ready To Die
    • Martin Hart-Landsberg; Paul Burkett – Engaging the Issues: China and Socialism
• Volume 36
  • Number 1 (March 2004)
    • Peter Gowan – Triumphing Toward International Disaster
    • Jim Glassman – Economic "Nationalism" in a Post-Nationalist Era
    • Jamie Morgan – Contemporary China, Anachronistic Marxism?
    • Meredith Box; Gavin McCormack – Terror in Japan
    • Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff – Voices of Difference
    • Translated by Lawrence Rogers – The Prostitute
    • Bertil Lintner – The U.S. War on Drugs: Wasteful and Counterproductive
    • Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom – Diary of a Madman
  • Number 2 (June 2004)
    • Hillary Crane; Kathleen Nadeau – Introduction
    • Sarah C. Soh – Aspiring to Craft Modern Gendered Selves
    • Pilapa Esara – "Women Will Keep the Household"
    • Ligaya Lindio-McGovern – Alienation and Labor Export in the Context of Globalization
    • Shanshan Du – Choosing Between Life and Love
    • Hillary Crane – Resisting Marriage and Renouncing Womanhood
    • Chitra Sankaran; Chng Huang Hoon – "We Women Aren't Free to Die"
    • Lawrence W. Neuman – Review Essay
    • Book Review
    • Book Review
  • Number 3 (September 2004)
    • Ken MacLean – Reconfiguring the Debate on Engagement
    • Eika Tai – "Korean Japanese"
    • Garry Rodan; Kevin Hewison – Closing the Circle?
    • Richard Robinson – Neoliberalism and the Future World
    • Richard Higgott – After Neoliberal Globalization
    • Mark Beeson – U.S. Hegemony and Southeast Asia
    • Ian Taylor – APEC, Globalization, and 9/11
    • Garry Rodan – International Capital, Singapore's state Companies, and Security
  • Number 4 (December 2004)
    • Kate Barclay – Mixing Up
    • Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat – Politics of Representation
    • Garry Rodan; Kevin Hewison – Governance and Conflict
    • Kanishka Jayasuriya; Kevin Hewison – The Antipolitics of Good Governance
    • Wil Hout – Political Regimes and Development Assistance
    • Vedi R. Hadiz – Indonesian Local Party Politics
    • Sally Sargeson – Full Circle?
    • Shaun Breslin – Globalization, International Coalitions, and Domestic Reform
• Volume 35
  • Number 1 (March 2003)
    • Jae-Jung Suh – The Two-Wars Doctrine and the Regional Arms Race: Contradictions in U.S. Post-Cold War Security Policy in Northeast Asia
    • Sachiko Sone – Exploitation or Expectation?: Child Labor in Japan's Coal Mines before World War II
    • Li Cheng and Lynn T. White III – Dialogue with the West: A Political Message from Avant-Garde Artists in Shanghai
    • Neville Maxwell – Forty Years of Folly: What Caused the Sino-Indian Border War and Why the Dispute Is Unresolved
    • A. Tom Grunfeld – "God We Had Fun": The CIA in China and Sino- American Relations
    • Melissa Wender – Military Comfort Women: Doing Justice to the Past
    • Anibel Ferus-Comelo – Divergent Views on Globalization and Labor
    • Linda Hess – Violence versus Nonviolence: A Call to Engage and Act
  • Number 2: Thematic Issue: Afghanistan (June 2003)
    • Ravi Arvind Palat and Mark Selden – Introduction: 9/11, War without Respite, and the New Face of Empire
    • David Seddon – Imperial Designs: A Deep History of Afghanistan
    • Saba Gul Khattak – In/Security: Afghan Refugees and Politics in Pakistan
    • Lily Zubaidah Rahim – The Road Less Traveled: Islamic Militancy in Southeast Asia
    • Peter Dale Scott – The CIA's Secret Powers: Afghanistan, 9/11, and America's Most Dangerous Enemy
    • Lon Troyer – Counterterrorism: Sovereignty, Law, Subjectivity
    • Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar – Says Tuka…: Songs of a Radical Bhakta
    • Michael D. Youngblood – The Varkaris: Following the March of Tradition in Western India
    • Chalmers Johnson; Herbert Docena; Thomas Reifer – Militarism and Imperialism in the United States: Following the March of Tradition in Western India
    • John Roosa – Violence and the Suharto Regime's Wonderland
    • James D. Seymour – Saving Asia's Environment
  • Number 3 (September 2003)
    • Paul Burkett and Martin Hart-Landsberg – The Economic Crisis in Japan: Mainstream Perspectives and an Alternative View
    • Ngai-Ling Sum – Informational Capitalism and U.S. Economic Hegemony: Resistance and Adaptations in East Asia
    • Nobue Suzuki – Transgressing "Victims": Reading Narratives of "Filipina Brides" in Japan
    • Rina Agarwala – Stubborn Legacies of War: Japanese Devils in Sarajevo
    • Jeff Kingston (text), Greg Davis (photographer) – Gunma: Out of Time
    • Brad Simpson – Power, Politics, and Primitivism: West Papua's Struggle for Self-Determination
    • Brian A. Hatcher, translator – The Evils of Child Marriage: by Ishvarcandra Vidyasagar
  • Number 4: Special Issue: Recovering Class—Observations from the Subcontinent (December 2003)
    • Alvin Y. So – Cross-Border Families in Hong Kong: The Role of Social Class and Politics
    • Li Narangoa – Japanese Imperialism and Mongolian Buddhism, 1932-1945
    • Colin Long – Feudalism in the Service of the Revolution: Reclaiming Heritage in Hue
    • Anita Chan; Zhu Xiaoyang – Disciplinary Labor Regimes in Chinese Factories
    • Ben Kiernan – The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia: The Deaths Tolls in Cambodia, 1975-79, and East Timor, 1975-80
    • David Hunt – Revolutions in the Delta
    • Martin Smith – The Enigma of Burma's Tatmadaw: A "State Within a State"
    • Lon Kurashige – Expanding the Story of Japanese American Internment
• Volume 34
  • Number 1: Thematic Issue: Transnational Labor Migration in the Asia/Pacific/Indian Ocean Region (March 2002)
    • Donald M. Nonini – Introduction: Transnational Migrants, Globalization Processes, and Regimes of Power and Knowledge
    • David Seddon, with Jagannath Adhikari and Ganesh Gurung – Foreign Labor Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal
    • Apichai W. Shipper – The Political Construction of Foreign Workers in Japan
    • Peter Kwong – Forbidden Workers and the U.S. Labor Movement: Fuzhounese in New York City
    • Adapa Satyanarayana – "Birds of Passage": Migration of South Indian Laborers to Southeast Asia
    • Jan Breman (text) and Ravi Agarwal (photographs) – Down and Out: Laboring under Global Capitalism
    • John K. Nelson – Tempest in a Textbook: A Report on the New Middle-School History Textbook in Japan
    • Kathleen M. Nadeau – Sex Work and Slavery in Asia: Does the Market Set the Captives Free?
    • Laxman D. Satya – Gyan Prakash, Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India
  • Number 2 (June 2002)
    • Ben Kiernan – Cover-up and Denial of Genocide: Australia, the USA, East Timor, and the Aborigines
    • Eric Tagliacozzo – Smuggling in Southeast Asia: History and Its Contemporary Vectors in an Unbounded Region
    • Matthew Allen – Therapies of Resistance?: Yuta, Help-seeking, and Identity in Okinawa
    • Arundhati Roy – The Perils of Privatized Power: Enron, the World Bank, and ECAs
    • Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side
    • Ronald R. Janssen – What History Cannot Write: Bei Dao and Recent Chinese Poetry
    • Arvind Rajagopal, introduction. Miriam Sharma, review. – Anand Patwardhan: Social Activist and Dedicated Filmmaker
    • Samir Dayal – Vinayak Chaturvedi, ed., Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial
    • Joseph Nevins – H. Bruce Franklin, Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
    • Dibyesh Anand – John Kenneth Knaus, Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival
    • John M. Carroll – Stephanie Po-yin Chung, Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China, 1900-25; Alvin Y. So, Hong Kong's Embattled Democracy
    • Kanti Bajpai – Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian, eds., Out of the Nuclear Shadow
  • Number 3 (September 2002)
    • Kasian Tejapira – Post-Crisis Economic Impasse and Political Recovery in Thailand: The Resurgence of Economic Nationalism
    • Andreas Martin Fulda – Reevaluating the Taiwanese Democracy Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Opposition Organizations under Japanese and KMT Rule
    • Lotte Isager and Søren Ivarsson – Contesting Landscapes in Thailand: Tree Ordination as Counter-territorialization
    • Mobo C. F. Gao – Debating the Cultural Revolution: Do We Only Know What We Believe?
    • Darrell Gene Moen – Radical Actions by Radical Farmers: Regional Revitalization in the Okitama Basin of Yamagata Prefecture
    • Daniel C. Tsang – Vietnam Today: Ngo Vinh Long interviewed by Daniel C. Tsang
    • Brian A. Hatcher, translator – Saradindu Bandyopadhyay: Introduction and Two Short Stories
    • Timothy B. Weston – China's Troubled Transition to Capitalism: Science and Class in India's Great Terminator-Technology Hoax
  • Number 4: Thematic Issue: Conflict and Change in Cambodia (December 2002)
    • Ben Kiernan – Introduction: Conflict in Cambodia, 1945-2002
    • Ben Kiernan – The Collapse of the Pol Pot Regime, January-April 1979
    • Yun Shui. Paul Marks, translator . – An Account of Chinese Diplomats Accompanying the Government of Democratic Kampuchea's Move to the Cardamom Mountains
    • David Roberts – Democratization, Elite Transition, and Violence in Cambodia,
    • Caroline Hughes – International Intervention and the People's Will: The Demoralization of Democracy in Cambodia
    • Philippe Le Billon – Logging in Muddy Waters: The Politics of Forest Exploitation in Cambodia
    • Ruth Bottomley – Contested Forests: An Analysis of the Highlander Response to Logging, Ratanakiri Province, Northeast Cambodia
    • Helen Jarvis – Trials and Tribulations: The Latest Twists in the Long Quest for Justice for the Cambodian Genocide
    • Ben Kiernan – Cambodia and the United Nations: Legal Documents
    • Bhrigupati Singh and Ashok Bhargava – Documentaries and Change: Review of and Commentary on Three of Anand Patwardhan's Films
    • Annual Index 2002
• Volume 33
  • Number 1: Okinawa Feature: Part 1 (March 2001)
    • Gavan McCormack – Water Margins: Competing Paradigms in China
    • Laura E. Hein – Introduction: The Territory of Identity and Remembrance in Okinawa
    • Gerald Figal – Waging Peace on Okinawa
    • Julia Yonetani – Playing Base Politics in a Global Strategic Theater: Futenma Relocation, the G-8 Summit, and Okinawa
    • Nozaki Yoshiko – Educating the Public about the Damage Caused by the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
    • Rebecca Jennison – Tomiyama Taeko: An Artist's Life and Work
    • Phan Thanh Hao and Wayne Karlin, trans. – Against the Flood: A Novel by Ma Van Khang
    • Patricia Stranahan – Opening the Books on China's Leadership
    • Moss Roberts – Designed to Fail: Two Critical Views on U.S. Diplomacy in Asia
    • Ronald R. Janssen – Bad Attitudes
  • Number 2: Okinawa Feature: Part 2 (June 2001)
    • Elizabeth J. Perry – Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Popular Protest in Modern China
    • Paul M. Monk – Secret Intelligence and Escape Clauses: Australia and the Indonesian Annexation of East Timor, 1963-76
    • Laura E. Hein – Introduction: The Territory of Identity and Remembrance in Okinawa
    • James E. Roberson – Uchinaa Pop: Place and Identity in Contemporary Okinawan Popular Music
    • Linda Isako Angst – The Sacrifice of a Schoolgirl: The 1995 Rape Case,Discourses of Power, and Women's Lives in Okinawa
    • Greg Davis – Out of Time: An Anecdotal Journey
    • Charlotte Eubanks – Re-writing the Myth of Motherhood: Short Stories, trans. by Okamoto Kanoko and Hirabayashi Taiko
    • Vijay Prashad – The Small Voice of Socialism: Kerala, Once Again
  • Number 3 (September 2001)
    • Gerry van Klinken – The Battle for History after Suharto: Beyond Sacred Dates, Great Men, and Legal Milestones
    • Jordan Sand – Monumentalizing the Everyday: The Edo-Tokyo Museum
    • T. Fujitani – The Reischauer Memo: Mr. Moto, Hirohito, and Japanese American Soldiers
    • Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett – Economic Crisis and Restructuring in South Korea: Beyond the Free Market-Statist Debate
    • Charles K. Armstrong and Clara Lee – Parallel Lives: A Conversation between Hwang Suk-young and Bao Ninh Two Veterans of the Vietnam War
    • Jana Everett – Challenge and Co-optation: Women's Movements, NGOs, and Advocacy Coalitions in Asia
    • Peter F. Bell – The Asian Economic Crisis and the Future of Asian Capitalism
    • Anne Hardgrove – The Problem of Sati: Two Critical Views on Widow Burning
    • Rebecca E. Karl – Translation, Modernity, and Women in China
    • Jeff Kingston – Reshaping History: The Pan Asian View on Merdeka
  • Number 4: FEATURE: Military Comfort Women (December 2006)
    • Roger Des Forges and Luo Xu – China as a Non-Hegemonic Superpower?: The Uses of History among the China Can Say No Writers and Their Critics
    • Bruce Cumings – Occurrence at Nogun-ri Bridge: An Inquiry into the History and Memory of a Civil War
    • Charles K. Armstrong – America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam
    • Stefan R. Landsberger – Learning by What Example?: Educational Propaganda in Twenty-first-Century China
    • Hayashi Hirofumi – The Japanese Movement to Protest Wartime Sexual Violence: A Survey of Japanese and International Literature
    • Nakahara Michiko – "Comfort Women" in Malaysia
    • Alexis Dudden – "We Came to Tell the Truth": Reflections on the Tokyo Women's Tribunal
    • C. Sarah Soh – Centering the Korean "Comfort Women" Survivors (video review)
    • C. Sarah Soh – Hirohito Redux. Review of Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

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