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  • Volume 33
    • Number 1
      • Water Margins
      • Introduction
      • Waging Peace on Okinawa
      • Playing Base Politics in a Global Strategic Theater
      • Educating the Public about the Damage Caused by the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
      • Tomiyama Taeko
      • Against the Flood
      • Opening the Books on China's Leadership
      • Designed to Fail
      • Bad Attitudes
    • Number 2
      • Challenging the Mandate of Heaven
      • Secret Intelligence and Escape Clauses
      • Introduction
      • Uchinaa Pop
      • The Sacrifice of a Schoolgirl
      • Out of Time
      • Re-writing the Myth of Motherhood
      • The Small Voice of Socialism
    • Number 3
      • The Battle for History after Suharto
      • Monumentalizing the Everyday
      • The Reischauer Memo
      • Economic Crisis and Restructuring in South Korea
      • Parallel Lives
      • Challenge and Co-optation
      • The Asian Economic Crisis and the Future of Asian Capitalism
      • The Problem of Sati
      • Translation, Modernity, and Women in China
      • Reshaping History
    • Number 4
      • China as a Non-Hegemonic Superpower?
      • Occurrence at Nogun-ri Bridge
      • America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam
      • Learning by What Example?
      • The Japanese Movement to Protest Wartime Sexual Violence
      • "Comfort Women" in Malaysia
      • "We Came to Tell the Truth"
      • Centering the Korean "Comfort Women" Survivors (video review)
      • Hirohito Redux. Review of Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
  • Volume 34
    • Number 1
      • Introduction
      • Foreign Labor Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal
      • The Political Construction of Foreign Workers in Japan
      • Forbidden Workers and the U.S. Labor Movement
      • "Birds of Passage"
      • Down and Out
      • Tempest in a Textbook
      • Sex Work and Slavery in Asia
      • Gyan Prakash, Another Reason
    • Number 2
      • Cover-up and Denial of Genocide
      • Smuggling in Southeast Asia
      • Therapies of Resistance?
      • The Perils of Privatized Power
      • Another Vietnam
      • What History Cannot Write
      • Anand Patwardhan
      • Vinayak Chaturvedi, ed., Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial
      • H. Bruce Franklin, Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
      • John Kenneth Knaus, Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival
      • 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
      • Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian, eds., Out of the Nuclear Shadow
    • Number 3
      • Post-Crisis Economic Impasse and Political Recovery in Thailand
      • Reevaluating the Taiwanese Democracy Movement
      • Contesting Landscapes in Thailand
      • Debating the Cultural Revolution
      • Radical Actions by Radical Farmers
      • Vietnam Today
      • Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
      • China's Troubled Transition to Capitalism
    • Number 4
      • Introduction
      • The Collapse of the Pol Pot Regime, January-April 1979
      • An Account of Chinese Diplomats Accompanying the Government of Democratic Kampuchea's Move to the Cardamom Mountains
      • Democratization, Elite Transition, and Violence in Cambodia,
      • International Intervention and the People's Will
      • Logging in Muddy Waters
      • Contested Forests
      • Trials and Tribulations
      • Cambodia and the United Nations
      • Documentaries and Change
      • Annual Index 2002
  • Volume 35
    • Number 1
      • The Two-Wars Doctrine and the Regional Arms Race
      • Exploitation or Expectation?
      • Dialogue with the West
      • Forty Years of Folly
      • "God We Had Fun"
      • Military Comfort Women
      • Divergent Views on Globalization and Labor
      • Violence versus Nonviolence
    • Number 2
      • Introduction
      • Imperial Designs
      • In/Security
      • The Road Less Traveled
      • The CIA's Secret Powers
      • Counterterrorism
      • Says Tuka…
      • The Varkaris
      • Militarism and Imperialism in the United States
      • Violence and the Suharto Regime's Wonderland
      • Saving Asia's Environment
    • Number 3
      • The Economic Crisis in Japan
      • Informational Capitalism and U.S. Economic Hegemony
      • Transgressing "Victims"
      • Stubborn Legacies of War
      • Gunma
      • Power, Politics, and Primitivism
      • The Evils of Child Marriage
    • Number 4
      • Cross-Border Families in Hong Kong
      • Japanese Imperialism and Mongolian Buddhism, 1932-1945
      • Feudalism in the Service of the Revolution
      • Disciplinary Labor Regimes in Chinese Factories
      • The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia
      • Revolutions in the Delta
      • The Enigma of Burma's Tatmadaw
      • Expanding the Story of Japanese American Internment
  • Volume 36
    • Number 1
      • Triumphing Toward International Disaster
      • Economic "Nationalism" in a Post-Nationalist Era
      • Contemporary China, Anachronistic Marxism?
      • Terror in Japan
      • Voices of Difference
      • The Prostitute
      • The U.S. War on Drugs
      • Diary of a Madman
    • Number 2
      • Introduction
      • Aspiring to Craft Modern Gendered Selves
      • "Women Will Keep the Household"
      • Alienation and Labor Export in the Context of Globalization
      • Choosing Between Life and Love
      • Resisting Marriage and Renouncing Womanhood
      • "We Women Aren't Free to Die"
      • Review Essay
      • Book Review
      • Book Review
    • Number 3
      • Reconfiguring the Debate on Engagement
      • "Korean Japanese"
      • Closing the Circle?
      • Neoliberalism and the Future World
      • After Neoliberal Globalization
      • U.S. Hegemony and Southeast Asia
      • APEC, Globalization, and 9/11
      • International Capital, Singapore's state Companies, and Security
    • Number 4
      • Mixing Up
      • Politics of Representation
      • Governance and Conflict
      • The Antipolitics of Good Governance
      • Political Regimes and Development Assistance
      • Indonesian Local Party Politics
      • Full Circle?
      • Globalization, International Coalitions, and Domestic Reform
  • Volume 37
    • Number 1
      • The Left, Elections, and the Political Party System in the Philippines
      • A Study in Social Change
      • Finding a Place
      • On New Rules for Destroying Old Countries
      • Beyond U.S. Grand Strategy?
      • The United States and East Asia in an age of financialization
      • American Grand Strategy and the Assassination of the Third World
      • Peter Gowan's “American Grand Strategy”
      • Agent Orange in Viet Nam
      • The State of Malaysian Studies
    • Number 2
      • Globalization, Education, and the Politics of Identity in the Asia-Pacific
      • Growing Rice After the Bomb
      • Dehistoricizing History
      • Post-authoritarian Indonesia
      • Lao Hill Tribes
      • Circles of Esteem, Standard Works, and Euphoric Couplets
      • The execution of Ten'ichibõ
      • Book Review
    • Number 3
      • Struggles for Land and Livelihood
      • Between Exception and Rule
      • The Market as Social Convention
      • America, capitalism, and the Interstate System
      • Thinking About China
      • The Political Economy of China's Economic Reform
      • Thinking about China
      • China and Capitalism
      • Bringing Class Back In
      • Beyond the Logic of Capital and the Polarization Model
      • Prospects of Economic Transformation
      • Post-Pol Pot Cambodia
      • Andre Gunder Frank 1929-2005
    • Number 4
      • Hegemony and the Politics of Culture and Identity in Thailand
      • Singapore's Cultural Policy and Its Consequences
      • Kamikazefication and Japan's Wartime Ideology
      • Engaging the Issues
  • Volume 38
    • Number 1
      • Introduction
      • The Silence of the Bullet Monument
      • Thaksin and the Resurgence of Violence in the Thai South
      • Thaksin's Achilles' Heel
      • Unpacking Thailand's Southern Conflict
      • Islam, Radicalism, and Violence in Southern Thailand
      • Voices from Pattani
      • War on Error and the Southern Fire: How terrorism analysts get it wrong
    • Number 2
      • History, Identity, and Security
      • Family or State?
      • Reassessing Soviet Motives for Invading Afghanistan
      • Continuity and Change
      • Private Authority and Disaster Relief
      • “Siberia Under Snow” by Kuroshima Denji
    • Number 3
      • The Transnational Construction of “National Allegory”
      • Social Injustice and Economic Dynamism in Contemporary Korea
      • Gendering Moral Capital
      • Balancing Justice and Reconciliation in East Timor
      • The Social Imperative of Pacifism in Postwar Japan
      • China's New Oder and Past Disorders
    • Number 4
      • Introduction
      • On the Decline of Class Analysis in South Asian Studies
      • Was the Indian Labor Movement Ever Co-opted?
      • From Work to Welfare
      • Middle-Class Activism and the Politics of the Informal Working Class
      • Why Did “Operation Cremate Monsanto” Fail?
      • Hegemonic Aspirations
  • Volume 39
    • Number 1
      • The Erotic and the Vulgar
      • Workers' Organizations in Pakistan
      • Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China
      • The Paradox of the State-Run Media Promoting Poor Governance in China
      • Performing Media-Constructed Images for First-Class Citizenship
      • Migrant Workers in the Pearl River Delta
      • Querying Queer Theory
    • Number 2
      • Imagining the Gay Community in Singapore
      • The Guest Labor System in Taiwan
      • How the Sino-Russian Boundary Conflict Was Finally Settled
      • Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China
      • The New Chinese Citizen and CETV
      • The Internet and the Fragmentation of Chinese Society
      • SMS, Communication, and Citizenship in China's Information Society
      • Again, They're Killing Peasants in the Philippines
      • Robert B. Stauffer, Scholar and Activist
      • Washington's China
    • Number 3
      • The Limits of Protest and Prospects for Political Reform in Malaysia
      • Robo Sapiens Japanicus
      • Submerged and Submerging Voices
      • Inequality for the Greater Good
      • Beyond Modern
      • Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
      • Book Review
    • Number 4
      • Ethics and Anthopology
      • Bones of Contention
      • Fraught Fieldsites
      • An Ethics for Working Up?
      • Impartial Observation and Partial Participation
      • New Conversations, New Truths
      • From Independence to Fundamentalism
      • Janam's Commitments
      • Book Review
  • Volume 40
    • Number 1
      • Burma's Despair
      • Burma's Ethnic Minorities
      • Fragmented Community and Unconstructive Engagements
      • China, Xinjiang, and the Transnational Security of Central Asia
      • Humanitarian NGOs and Meditations of Political Order in Sri Lanka
      • President Sukarno and the September 30th Movement
    • Number 2
      • Restructuring and the Historical Fate of China's Working Class
      • Reaping the Harvest of Peace?
      • Social Capital at Work
      • When Wal-Mart Wimped Out
      • Stage Effects
      • The Asian Economic Crisis and Capitalist Restructuring
      • Preamble
      • Preamble
    • Number 3
      • Failed Internationalism and Social Movement Decline
      • Northern Thailand's Specter of Eviction
      • Birds of Freedom
      • Tama-Chan and Sealing Japanese Identity
      • Highlanders on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
      • U.S. Court Rules in the “Okinawa Dugong” Case
      • China's Two Paths
      • Tributes: Nina Shapiro Adams 1943-2007
    • Number 4
      • Increasing Women’s Participation in Village Government in China
      • The Implications of Aspirations
      • Introduction to Distant Divides and Intimate Connections, Part 1
      • On Sentimental Orientalists, Christian Zionists, and Working Class Cosmopolitans
      • High in the Hierarchy, Rich in Diversity
      • Of Maids and Madams
      • Letter from Luang Prabang
  • Volume 41
    • Number 1
      • An Unfinished Past
      • The Ambivalence of Citizenship
      • Advocating for Sri Lankan Migrant Workers
      • Transcending the Border
      • The Making of a Transnational Grassroots Migrant Movement
      • Migrant Workers and the Many States of Protest in Hong Kong
      • Undocumented Indonesian Workers in Macau
    • Number 2
      • Confronting the Past in Contemporary Indonesia
      • Development as Localization
      • The Political Culture of Factionalism among Hindu Nationalists in Denmark
      • Legacies of War
      • Hiroshima
      • Studies of Massive, Collective Violence in Post-Soeharto Indonesia
      • Film Reviews
      • Book Review
    • Number 3
      • Migration, Migrants, and Contested Ethno-Nationalism
      • The Tribal-Forest Nexus in Law and Society in India
      • Offshoring Dissent
      • Still Playing With Fire
      • As The Empire Falls
      • Knowledge to Serve What Ends? An Exchange from 1968
      • Film Reviews
    • Number 4
      • Intellectual Containment
      • “We Are Sons of This Soil”
      • Demanding Daughter Duty
      • Internal Resettlement in Laos
      • Internal Resettlement in Laos
      • Iraq and Vietnam
      • Tribute: Donald M. Lowe
  • Volume 42
    • Number 1
      • North Korea’s Politics of Longing
      • Extracting Labor from Its Owner
      • Introduction: Heritage, Nationhood, and Language
      • Learning to Be Transnational
      • Conflicted Attitudes Toward Heritage: Heritage Language Learning of Returnee
      • Heritage: Owned or Assigned?
      • Hari
      • Allah, Army, and America in Pakistan
    • Number 2
      • Analyzing Exploitation
      • Inheriting "Japanese-Ness" Diversely
      • Rethinking Japanese American "Heritage" in the Homeland
      • Afterword
      • Afterword
      • Afterword
      • The Violence of Forgetting
      • Dungariya Village, Southern Rajasthan
      • The Right to Education and the Pedagogy for Hope
      • Gender, the Family, Sexuality, and Governance
      • Review
      • Letters
    • Number 3
      • Marxists in Singapore?
      • Human Development as Transformative Practice:
      • Race to Judge, Rush to Act
      • Anthropologists and War
      • Impasse at MCAS Futenma
      • The War in Afghanistan Goes Global
      • (Dis)orienting North Korea
      • Record in Pictures of Yasukuni Jinja
      • Correction
    • Number 4
      • Truth and Reconciliation in South Korea
      • The Long Road toward Truth and Reconciliation
      • Atrocities Before and During the Korean War
      • No Gun Ri
      • War Trauma, Memories, and Truths
      • Politicizing Justice
  • Volume 43
    • Number 1
      • Unbearable Pressures on Paradise?
      • Migration in Far West Nepal
      • The Politics of Burma's "Democratic" Transition
      • Rice Farming in Bali
      • Reckoning with War in the Museum
      • Obama and Afghanistan
      • Truth on Trial in Thailand
      • Dominion from Sea to Sea
      • A Twentieth-Century History of Bombing Civilians / A History of Bombing
    • Number 2
      • Patronage and Class in Urban Pakistan
      • Law, Translation, and Voice
      • The Don Sahong Dam
      • The Dialectics of Autonomy and Opening
      • Continuity / Discontinuity
      • The U.S. "War On Drugs" in Afghanistan
      • Migration in Far West Nepal
    • Number 3
      • Capitalism, The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and Resistance
      • Translating Bangsa Malaysia
      • Ransacking the Field?
      • The Case of Volunteer 8
      • Cultures of War Roundtable
      • Tsunami
    • Number 4
      • Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia
      • Where the Streets Are Paved with Prawns
      • More than Culture, Gender, and Class
      • Connecting Lives, Living, and Location
      • Migration and Gender Identity in the Rural Philippines
      • Coping with Change
      • Cultures of War Roundtable (Round Two)
      • Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence
      • Revisionism and the Nanjing Atrocity
      • The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan / The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's
      • Migration in Far West Nepal
  • Volume 44
    • Number 1
      • Transitional Justice as an Elite Discourse
      • Sacred Cows and Crashing Boars
      • Land, Livelihoods, and Remittances
      • Thai Mobilities and Cultural Citizenship
      • Migration to the Countryside
      • Displacement, Resettlement, and Multi-Local Livelihoods
      • The Korean War / Selling the Korean War
      • Chen Village
      • Scorched Earth, Black Snow
    • Number 2
      • The Politics of Protection in Burma
      • War against an Ambiguous Enemy
      • Mediating and Consuming Memories of Violence
      • Adivasis In and Against the State
      • Reinventing the Self under Socialism
      • Recalibrating Risk and Governing the Japanese Population
      • Ideal Illusions
      • Policing America's Empire
      • Remembering Maurice Meisner, 1931–2012
    • Number 3
      • Peace Building without Using the Word "Peace"
      • Youth Mobilization and Ideology
      • Challenging the Atomization of Discontent
      • Detention in Mass Violence
      • Limited War, Unlimited Targets
      • Timor-Leste's Proclaimer of Independence
      • Pakistan: Democracy, Terrorism, and the Building of a Nation / The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan
      • No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
    • Number 4
      • From Kokusaika to Tabunka Kyosei
      • City of Ghosts
      • Migrant Beggars and Buskers
      • Factory Employment, Female Workers' Activism, and Authoritarianism in Indonesia
      • The Changing Politics of Thailand's Buddhist Order
      • The East of the Cold War
      • Life and Death in Droneworld
      • Scorched Earth
      • Tribute
  • Volume 45
    • Number 1
      • Streets as Suspect
      • A Nation in Fragments
      • The Global Value Chain
      • Breaking Through a Double Invisibility
      • "What Does It Mean to Be a Marxist?"
      • Asia under Late Capitalism
      • Hanoi's War
      • From the Ruins of Empire
    • Number 2
      • Dilemmas of Parliamentary Communism
      • Vigilantism and Violence in Decentralized Indonesia
      • Encountering Asia
      • Messages from Long Tan, Vietnam
      • Toward Overcoming Korea's Division System through Civic Participation
      • Two Giant Steps in the Scholarship on the First Indochina War
      • Filiation, Continuous and Discontinuous
      • The Indian Ideology
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