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Critical Asian Studies (2001– )

Volume 50
- Number 1 (March 2018)
  - Mark Selden – A Note from the CAS Directors: Fifty Years of Critical Inquiry
  - Saskia Schäfer – Ahmadis or Indonesians?: The Polarization of Post-Reform Public Debates on Islam and Orthodoxy
  - Hyun Mee Kim, Shinhye Park, and Ariun Shukhertei – Insecure Peace: Understanding Citizen and Local Government Relations in a Maoist-Affected Region in India
  - Nicole Curato – Introduction: Beyond the Spectacle: Slow-Moving Disasters in Post-Haiyan Philippines
  - Yvonne Su and Ladylyn Mangada – A Tide that Does Not Lift All Boats: The Surge of Remittances in Post-Disaster Recovery in Tacloban City, Philippines
  - Jonathan Ong and Pamela Combinido – Local Aid Workers in the Digital Humanitarian Project: Between "Second Class Citizens" and "Entrepreneurial Survivors"
  - Dakila Kim P. Yee – Constructing Reconstruction, Territorializing Risk: Imposing "No-Build Zones" in Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Tacloban City, Philippines
  - Colin Walch – Typhoon Haiyan: Pushing the Limits of Resilience?: The Effect of Land Inequality on Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction Policies in the Philippines
  - Caroline Compton – The Unheeded Present and the Impossible Future: Temporalities of Relocation after Typhoon Haiyan
  - V. K. Ramachandran – Economic Planning in Kerala
  - In Memoriam: Hassan Nawaz Gardezi, 1933 – 2017
Volume 49
- Number 1 (March 2017)
  - Daisy Kim – Migrant Precarity and Human Rights Advocacy for Marriage Migrants in South Korea
  - Masako Kudo – The Evolution of Transnational Families: Bi-National Marriages between Japanese Women and Pakistani Men
  - Hyun Mee Kim, Shinhye Park, and Ariun Shukhertei – Returning Home: The Materiality of Belonging in Modern Ainu Identity
  - Andi Rahman Alamsyah and Vedi R. Hadiz – Three Islamist Generations, One Islamic State: The Darul Islam Movement and Indonesian Social Transformation
  - Neloufer de Mel – A Grammar of Emergence: Culture and the State in the Post-Tsunami Resettlement of Burgher Women of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
  - Michael Gow – The Core Socialist Values of the Chinese Dream: Towards a Chinese Integral State
  - Adam Tyson and Budi Purnomo – President Jokowi and the 2014 Obor Rakyat Controversy in Indonesia
- Number 2 (June 2017)
  - Jonas Bens and Timi Duile – Indonesia and the "Conflictual Consensus": A Discursive Perspective on Indonesian Democracy
  - Timothy Frewer – The Gender Agenda: NGOs, Simplifications, and Capitalist Relations in Highland Cambodia
  - Mei-ling Ellerman – The Power of Everyday Subordination: Exploring the Silence and Disempowerment of Chinese Domestic Workers
  - Fiona Seiger – Consanguinity as Capital: Japanese-Filipino Children in the Philippines
  - Helene Le Bail – Cross-Border Marriages as a Side Door for Paid and Unpaid Migrant Workers: The Case of Marriage Migration between China and Japan
  - Rajalaxmi Kamath and Smita Ramanathan – A Women's Tea Plantation Workers' Strike in Munnar, Kerala: Lessons for Trade Unions in Contemporary India
  - Yan Hairong – Bottom-up Capitalism as a Challenge for Social Movements: A Conversation with Tania Murray Li
  - Edward A. McCord – To Change China?
  - Christianne F. Collantes – Intimate Ethnographies: Gender and Sexualities in Global Asia
  - Moss Roberts – Remembering Gene Cooper
  - Christy Thornton and Stuart Schrader – Militarism runs deep in the United States, but historian Marilyn Young never gave up believing that it could be overcome
- Number 3 (September 2017)
  - Elisabeth Olivius – Sites of Repression and Resistance: Political Space in Refugee Camps in Thailand
  - Mohd Faizal Musa and Beng Hui Tan – State-Backed Discrimination against Shia Muslims in Malaysia
  - Edwin B.P. de Jong, Luuk Knippenberg, and Laurens Bakker – New Frontiers: Indonesia's Resource Extraction Areas
  - Diana Suhardiman, Jeff Rutherford and Saw John Bright – Putting Violent Armed Conflict in the Center of the Salween Hydropower Debates
  - Duncan McCargo – Thailand's Urbanized Villagers and Political Polarization
  - Ardeth Thawnghmung – Signs of Life in Myanmar's Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)? Finding a Way Forward
  - Netra Eng and Caroline Hughes – Coming of Age in Peace, Prosperity, and Connectivity: Coming of Age in Peace, Prosperity, and Connectivity
  - Merlyna Lim – Freedom to Hate: Social Media, Algorithmic Enclaves, and the Rise of Tribal Nationalism in Indonesia
  - Philip F. Kelly, Elisabeth Kramer, Chaya Go, Ethel Tungohan, Jason Morris-Jung, and Dominique Caouette – Expertise, Embodiment, and the Dilemmas of Activist Research in Southeast Asia
  - Laura Schoenberger and Alice Beban – What is Academic Research on the Cambodian Frontier?
  - Jason Morris-Jung – Reflections on Governable Spaces of Activism and Expertise in Vietnam
  - Nga Dao – Reflecting on the Role of Academics/Activists in Shifting Hydropower Narratives in Vietnam
  - Chaya Ocampo Go – I Go Home to Work: A Filipina's Practice of Activist Scholarship in the Wake of Super Typhoon Yolanda
  - Elisabeth Kramer – Reflections on Academic Activism against the Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers in Indonesia
  - Johan Saravanamuttu – Engaged Scholars in Socio-Political Reform: The Case of Aliran
  - Arianto Sangadji – Reflections on Activists and Scholars in Indonesia
  - Peter Vandergeest, Olivia Tran, and Melissa Marschke – Modern Day Slavery in Thai Fisheries: Academic Critique, Practical Action
  - Henryk Alff – Geopolitics and Inter-Actor Relations: Reflections on China's Rise in Asia
  - Moss Roberts – America: Neither Exceptional nor Indispensable
- Number 4 (December 2017)
  - CAS Directors and Editor – Statement on Censorship
  - Padmaja Barua, Anne Waldrop, and Haldis Haukanes – From Benevolent Maternalism to Market Logic: Exploring Shifting Boundary Making in Domestic Work Relations in India
  - Chun Lin – Discipline and Power: The Subject of China in Political Science
  - Jane Hayward – Beyond the Ownership Question: Who Will Till the Land? The New Debate on China's Agricultural Production
  - Deokhyo Choi – Fighting the Korean War in Pacifist Japan: Korean and Japanese Leftist Solidarity and Transnational Linkages of U.S. Cold War Containment
  - Seung-Ook Lee – Free Trade Agreements and "Economic Territory" as Geoeconnomic Imaginaries in South Korea
  - Silpa Satheesh – Development as Recolonization: The Political Ecology of the Endosulphan Disaster in Kasargod, India
  - Steve Rabson – The Transformation of hi no maru in Postwar Okinawa: From Symbol of Hope to Object of Contempt
  - Kasian Tejapira – The Sino-Thai Right Turn toward China
  - Tom Grunfeld, Moss Roberts, Martha Winnacker and Linda Yarr – William Coligny "Bill" Doub II (1935-2017) and Nancy Platte Carlson Doub (1937-2009)
  - Tom Grunfeld, Moss Roberts, Martha Winnacker and Linda Yarr – Michael Theodore Vickery, 1931-2017
  - Annual Index
Volume 48
- Number 1 (March 2016)
  - Manali Desai and Indrajit Roy – Development Discourse and Popular Articulations in Urban Gujarat
  - Amanda Snellinger – “Let’s See What Happens”: Hope, Contingency, and Speculation in Nepali Student Activism
  - ann-elise leallan – Clamoring Blood: The Materiality of Belonging in Modern Ainu Identity
  - Meredith L. Weiss – Payoffs, Parties, or Policies: “Money Politics” and Electoral Authoritarian Resilience in Malaysia
  - Jamie S. Davidson – Why the Philippines Chooses to Import Rice
  - Lichao Yang – At the Bottom of the Heap: Socio-economic Circumstances and Health Practices and Beliefs among Garbage Collectors in Peri-Urban China
  - Ardeth Thawnghmung – The Myanmar Elections 2015: Why the National League for Democracy Won a Landslide Victory
- Number 2 (June 2016)
  - Tom Grunfeld, Moss Roberts, Martha Winnacker & Linda Yarr – Farewell and Tribute to Tom Fenton, Friend and Comrade
  - Vannessa Hearman – Letter Writing and Transnational Activism for Indonesia's Political Prisoners: Gatot Lestario and His Legacy
  - Ashley South and Christopher M. Joll – From Rebels to Rulers: The Challenges of Transition for Non-State Armed Groups in Mindanao and Myanmar
  - Tim Scrase, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, and Trent Brown – Urbanization, Rural Mobility, and New Class Relations in Darjeeling, India
  - J. Devika – Aspects of Socioeconomic Exclusion in Kerala, India: Reflections from an Urban Slum
  - Gabrielle Koch – Willing Daughters: The Moral Rhetoric of Filial Sacrifice and Financial Autonomy in Tokyo's Sex Industry
  - Ian Baird – Non-government Organizations, Villagers, Political Culture and the Lower Sesan 2 Dam in Northeastern Cambodia
  - Reiner Buergin – Ecosystem Restoration Concessions in Indonesia: Conflicts and Discourses
  - Apichai W. Shippera – Politics Through the Lens of Language, Literature, Films, and Wayang: Remembering Benedict Anderson
  - Leela Fernandes – Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India; Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India
- Number 3 (September 2016)
  - Heike Holbig & Sighard Neckel – Negative Classifications and the Symbolic Order of Social Inequality: Evidence from East Asia
  - Vladimir Tikhonov – Social Darwinism as History and Reality: The Story of "Competition" and "The Weak" in the First Half of Twentieth-Century Korea
  - Ken'ichi Mishima – Establishing a Social-Darwinist Mentality in Japan's Paternalist State: The Potential of Resistance by a Counter-Public
  - Gregory Clancey – The Changing Character of Disaster Victimhood: Evidence from Japan's "Great Earthquakes"
  - Alisha F. Carpenter & Wei Song – Changing Attitudes about the Weak: Social and Legal Conditions for Animal Protection in China
  - Ivan Franceschini, Kaxton Siu, & Anita Chan – The "Rights Awakening" of Chinese Migrant Workers: Beyond the Generational Perspective
  - SiuSue Mark – Are the Odds of Justice "Stacked" Against Them?: Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Land Claims by Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar
- Number 4 (December 2016)
  - Chinsung Chung, Keuntae Kim, and Nicola Piper – Preface: Marriage Migration in Southeast and East Asia Revisited through a Migration-Development Nexus Lens
  - Nicola Piper and Sohoon Lee – Marriage Migration, Migrant Precarity, and Social Reproduction in Asia: An Overview
  - Daniele Bélanger – Marriage Migration, Single Men, and Social Reproduction in Migrants' Communities of Origin in Vietnam
  - Sara L. Friedman – Revaluing Marital Immigrants: Educated Professionalism and Precariousness among Chinese Spouses in Taiwan
  - Jesse Hession Grayman – Official and Unrecognized Narratives of Recovery in Post Conflict Aceh, Indonesia
  - Natalia Bloch – Evicting Heritage: Spatial Cleansing and Cultural Legacy at the Hampi UNESCO Site in India
  - Rebecca Townsend – Prisoner of Love: Sexual Violence on Thai Television
  - Alvin Y. So – Beneath the Miracle: Corruption, Sex, and Truth in Post-Mao China
  - John W. Tai – Predicting China's Political Future: The Risky Business of Betting Against the Chinese Communist Party
  - Patricio N. Abinales – Cosmopolitanism, Marginality, Prokem: Benedict Anderson's A Life Beyond Boundaries
  - Robert J. Shepherd – Note from the Editor and a Call for Papers: Asia in Africa
  - Annual Index
Volume 47
- Number 1 (March 2015)
  - Martin Hart-Landsberg – From the Claw to the Lion: A Critical Look at Capitalist Globalization
  - Ward Berenschot – Clientelism, Trust Networks, and India's Identity Politics: Conveying Closeness in Gujarat
  - Tyrell Haberkorn – The Hidden Transcript of Amnesty: The 6 October 1976 Massacre and Coup in Thailand
  - Andrew Rosser – Contesting Tobacco-Control Policy in Indonesia
  - Oliver Schönweger and Peter Messerli – Land Acquisition, Investment, and Development in the Lao Coffee Sector: Successes and Failures
  - Kirsten L. Ziomek – The Possibility of Liminal Colonial Subjecthood: Yayutz Bleyh and the Search for Subaltern Histories in the Japanese Empire
- Number 2 (June 2015)
  - Jacqui Baker and Sarah Milne – Dirty Money States: Thematic Issue: Illicit Economies and the State in Southeast Asia
  - Boris Verbrugge – Undermining the State?: Informal Mining and Trajectories of State Formation in Eastern Mindanao, Philippines
  - Sarah Milne – Cambodia's Unofficial Regime of Extraction: Illicit Logging in the Shadow of Transnational Governance and Investment
  - Phuc Xuan To – State Territorialization and Illegal Logging: The Dynamic Relationships between Practices and Images of the State in Vietnam
  - Patrick Meehan – Fortifying or Fragmenting the State?: The Political Economy of the Opium/Heroin Trade in Shan State, Myanmar, 1988–2013
  - James Scambary – In Search of White Elephants: The Political Economy of Resource Income Expenditure in East Timor
  - Jacqui Baker – The Rhizome State: Democratizing Indonesia's Off-Budget Economy
- Number 3 (September 2015)
  - Donald M. Nonini – "At That Time We Were Intimidated on All Sides": Residues of the Malayan Emergency as a Conjunctural Episode of Dispossession
  - Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet – Regime Critics: Democratization Advocates in Vietnam, 1990s–2014
  - Jamie Doucette – Debating Economic Democracy in South Korea: The Costs of Commensurability
  - Max Ward – Displaying the Worldview of Japanese Fascism: The Tokyo Thought War Exhibition of 1938
  - Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. – Is the Filipino Diaspora a Diaspora?
  - Joel S. Fetzer and Brandon Alexander Millan – The Causes of Emigration from Singapore: How Much Is Still Political?
- Number 4 (December 2015)
  - Tamara Jacka and Sally Sargeson – Representing Women in Chinese Village Self-Government: A New Perspective on Gender, Representation, and Democracy
  - Danielle Labbé – Media Dissent and Peri-urban Land Struggles in Vietnam: The Case of the Văn Giang Incident
  - James D. Seymour and Patrick Yuk-tung Wong – China and the International Human Rights Covenants
  - Jennifer Robertson – Technology and Empire: A Colonial Narrative of the Construction of the Tonkin–Yunnan Railway
  - Andreas Ufen and Marcus Mietzner – Political Finance Regimes in Southeast Asia: Feature: Political Finance Regimes in Southeast Asia, Introduction
  - Andreas Ufen – Laissez-faire versus Strict Control of Political Finance: Hegemonic Parties and Developmental States in Malaysia and Singapore
  - Marcus Mietzner – Dysfunction by Design: Political Finance and Corruption in Indonesia
  - Napisa Waitoolkiat and Paul Chambers – Political Party Finance in Thailand Today: Evolution, Reform, and Control
  - Annual Index
Volume 46
- Number 1: Thematic Issue: Reframing North Korean Human Rights (part 2) (March 2014)
  - Suh Bo-hyuk – The Militarization of Korean Human Rights: A Peninsular Perspective
  - Jong-Yun Bae and Chung-in Moon – South Korea's Engagement Policy: Revisiting a Human Rights Policy
  - Dae-Han Song and Christine Hong – Toward "The Day After": National Endowment for Democracy and North Korean Regime Change
  - Moon Kyungyon – South Korean Civil Society Organizations, Human Rights Norms, and North Korea
  - Haeyoung Kim – Stifled Growth and Added Suffering: Tensions Inherent in Sanctions Policies against North Korea
  - Paul Liem – Peace as a North Korean Human Right
  - Hazel Smith – Crimes against Humanity? Unpacking the North Korean Human Rights Debate
  - The Act of Killing: A CAS Roundtable
  - Robert Cribb, Australian National University – The Act of Killing
  - Jacqui Baker, Australian National University – Remembering to Forget
  - Adam Tyson, University of Leeds – Multiple Acts of Killing
  - Ariel Heryanto, Australian National University – Great and Misplaced Expectations
  - Galuh Wandita, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) – Preman Nation: Watching The Act of Killing in Indonesia
  - Vannessa Hearman, University of Sydney – "Missing Victims" of the 1965-66 Violence in Indonesia: Representing Impunity On-screen in The Act of Killing
  - Gerry van Klinken, KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) – No, The Act of Killing Is Not Unethical
  - John Roosa, University of British Columbia – The Executioners' Masks
  - Leslie K. Dwyer, George Mason University – Picturing Violence: Anti-Politics and The Act of Killing
  - Leslie K. Dwyer, George Mason University – Inside the Minds of Executioners: Reimagining the Loss of Life in the 1965 Indonesian Killings
  - Saskia E. Wieringa, University of Amsterdam – Sexual Politics as a Justification for Mass Murder in The Act of Killing
  - Sylvia Tiwon, University of California, Berkeley – Lust of the Eye: The Act of Killing and Aesthetic Sensibility
  - Laurie J. Sears, University of Washington – Heroes as Killers or Killers as Hereos?
- Number 2 (June 2014)
  - Ian Shaw, Majed Akhter – The Dronification of State Violence
  - Christina Schwenkel – Rethinking Asian Mobilities: Socialist Migration and Post-Socialist Repatriation of Vietnamese Contract Workers in East Germany
  - Nancy Abelmann, Nicole Newendorp, Sangsook Lee-Chung – East Asia's Astronaut And Geese Families: Hong Kong and South Korean Cosmopolitanisms
  - Dan Slater – Unbuilding Blocs: Indonesia's Accountability Deficit in Historical Perspective
  - Anthony P. D'Costa – Compressed Capitalism and Development: Primitive Accumulation, Petty Commodity Production, and Capitalist Maturity in India and China
  - Zia Mian, M.V. Ramana – Asian War Machines
  - Edwin A. Martini – Toxic War: The Story of Agent Orange
  - Christopher Goscha – Sources of Vietnamese Tradition
- Number 3 (September 2014)
  - Charlene Makley – Spectacular Compassion: "Natural" Disasters and National Mourning in China's Tibet
  - Wendy Mee – Beyond the Personal in Sambas, Indonesia: Women Working across Borders
  - Mark R. Thompson – The Politics Philippine Presidents Make:: Presidential-style, Patronage-based, or Regime Relational?
  - Jeff Kingston – Abe's Nuclear Renaissance: Energy Politics in Post-3.11 Japan: Fukushima Feature
  - David H. Slater and Rika Morioka, with Haruka Danzuka – Micro-politics of Radiation: Young Mothers Looking for a Voice in Post-3.11 Fukushima
  - Kyle Cleveland – "Significant Breaking Worse": The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis as a Moral Panic
- Number 4 (December 2014)
  - Edward Aspinall – When Brokers Betray: Clientelism, Social Networks, and Electoral Politics in Indonesia
  - Jennifer Robertson – Human Rights vs. Robot Rights: Forecasts from Japan
  - Jenny Chan and Mark Selden – China's Rural Migrant Workers, the State, and Labor Politics
  - David T. Hill – Indonesian Political Exiles in the USSR
  - Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr., Meynardo P. Mendoza, and Anne Lan K. Candelaria – Keeping the State at Bay: The Killing of Journalists in the Philippines, 1998 – 2012
  - Annual Index
Volume 45
- Number 1 (March 2013)
  - Dorothy J. Solinger – Streets as Suspect: State Skepticism and the Current Losers in Urban China
  - Edward Aspinall – A Nation in Fragments: Patronage and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Indonesia
  - Hong Xue and Anita Chan – The Global Value Chain: Value for Whom? The Soccer Ball Industry in China and Pakistan
  - Soma Marik – Breaking Through a Double Invisibility: The Communist Women of Bengal, 1939–1948
  - Jan Myrdal – "What Does It Mean to Be a Marxist?": Hari Sharma and the Marxist Tradition
  - Toby Carroll – Asia under Late Capitalism: A Refocus on Reality
  - David G. Marr – Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
  - Ravi Palat – From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
- Number 2 (June 2013)
  - Subho Basu and Auritro Majumder – Dilemmas of Parliamentary Communism: The Rise and Fall of the Left in West Bengal
  - Adam Tyson – Vigilantism and Violence in Decentralized Indonesia: The Case of Lombok
  - Megha Amrith – Encountering Asia: Narratives of Filipino Medical Workers on Caring for Other Asians
  - William Logan and Andrea Witcomb – Messages from Long Tan, Vietnam: Memorialization, Reconciliation, and Historical Justice
  - Paik Nak-chung – Toward Overcoming Korea's Division System through Civic Participation
  - David Hunt – Two Giant Steps in the Scholarship on the First Indochina War
  - Hoon Song – Filiation, Continuous and Discontinuous: Two Recent Anthropological Approaches to North Korea
  - Ravi Arvind Palat – The Indian Ideology
- Number 3 (September 2013)
  - Celso M. Villegas and Myung-Ji Yang – Making Narratives of Revolution: Democratic Transition and the Language of Middle-Class Identity in the Philippines and South Korea, 1970s–1987
  - George Dutton – Threatening Histories: Rethinking the Historiography of Colonial Viet Nam
  - Caglar Keyder and Ravi Arvind Palat – Introduction: Geopolitics and New Spatial Imaginaries
  - Ravi Arvind Palat – Maps of Time, Clocks of Space: Changing Imaginaries of Asia
  - Nora Fisher Onar – Historical Legacies in Rising Powers: Toward a (Eur)Asian Approach
  - Ana Maria Candela – Qiaoxiang on the Silk Road: Cultural Imaginaries as Structures of Feeling in the Making of a Global China
  - Hasan H. Karrar – Merchants, Markets, and the State: Informality, Transnationality, and Spatial Imaginaries in the Revival of Central Eurasian Trade
  - Alfred W. McCoy – Reflections on History's Largest Air War
  - Stephen R. Shalom – Just War Theory: Restraint or Enabler of War?
  - David Hunt and Mark Philip Bradley – Crimes of War
  - Neriko Musha Doerr – Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan
- Number 4 (December 2013)
  - Christine Hong – Reframing North Korean Human Rights: Thematic Issue: Reframing North Korean Human Rights (part 1)
  - Ju Hui Judy Han – Beyond Safe Haven: A Critique of Christian Custody of North Korean Migrants in China
  - Christine Hong – The Mirror of North Korean Human Rights: Technologies of Liberation, Technologies of War
  - Sanghyuk S. Shin and Ricky Y. Choi – Misdiagnosis and Misrepresentations: Application of the Right-to-Health Framework in North Korea
  - Angus Lockyer – The Problem of Sovereignty in an Age of Empire: Representing Japan in Paris in 1867
  - Trung Dinh Dang, Sango Mahanty, and Susan Mackay – "Living with Pollution": Juggling Environmental and Social Risk in Vietnam's Craft Villages
  - Annual Index
Volume 44
- Number 1 (March 2012)
  - Simon Robins – Transitional Justice as an Elite Discourse: Human Rights Practice Where the Global Meets the Local in Post-Conflict Nepal
  - Susan Leong – Sacred Cows and Crashing Boars: Ethno-Religious Minorities and the Politics of Online Representation in Malaysia
  - Keith Barney – Land, Livelihoods, and Remittances: A Political Ecology of Youth Out-Migration Across the Lao-Thai Mekong Border
  - Mary Beth Mills – Thai Mobilities and Cultural Citizenship
  - Tubtim Tubtim – Migration to the Countryside: Class Encounters in Peri-Urban Chiang Mai, Thailand
  - Rebecca Elmhirst – Displacement, Resettlement, and Multi-Local Livelihoods: Positioning Migrant Legitimacy in Lampung, Indonesia
  - Heonik Kwon – The Korean War / Selling the Korean War
  - Alvin Y. So – Chen Village: Revolution and Globalization
  - Michael Munk – Scorched Earth, Black Snow: Britain and Australia in the Korean War
- Number 2 (June 2012)
  - Ashley South – The Politics of Protection in Burma: Beyond the Humanitarian Mainstream
  - Taewoo Kim – War against an Ambiguous Enemy: U.S. Air Force Bombing of South Korean Civilian Areas, June–September 1950
  - Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Rommel A. Curaming – Mediating and Consuming Memories of Violence: The Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines
  - Alf Gunvald Nilsen – Adivasis In and Against the State: Subaltern Politics and State Power in Contemporary India
  - Travis S.K. Kong – Reinventing the Self under Socialism: Migrant Male Sex Workers ("Money Boys") in China
  - Glenn D. Hook – Recalibrating Risk and Governing the Japanese Population: Crossing Borders and the Role of the State
  - Bradley R. Simpson – Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights
  - Patricio Abinales – Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
  - Remembering Maurice Meisner, 1931–2012
- Number 3 (September 2012)
  - Oliver Walton – Peace Building without Using the Word "Peace": National NGOs' Reputational Management Strategies during a Peace–to–War Transition in Sri Lanka
  - Anne Raffin – Youth Mobilization and Ideology: Cambodia from the Late Colonial Era to the Pol Pot Regime
  - Florian Butollo and Tobias ten Brink – Challenging the Atomization of Discontent: Patterns of Migrant-Worker Protest in China during the Series of Strikes in 2010
  - Douglas Kammen and Faizah Zakaria – Detention in Mass Violence: Policy and Practice in Indonesia, 1965–1968
  - Taewoo Kim – Limited War, Unlimited Targets: U.S. Air Force Bombing of North Korea during the Korean War, 1950–1953
  - Maj Nygaard-Christensen – Timor-Leste's Proclaimer of Independence: An Interview with Francisco Xavier do Amaral
  - Majed Akhter – Pakistan: Democracy, Terrorism, and the Building of a Nation / The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan
  - Ronald R. Janssen – No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
- Number 4 (December 2012)
  - Petrice R. Flowers – From Kokusaika to Tabunka Kyosei: Global Norms, Discourses of Difference, and Multiculturalism in Japan
  - Robbie Peters – City of Ghosts: Migration, Work, and Value in the Life of a Ho Chi Minh City Saleswoman
  - Elaine Jeffreys and Sophie Wang – Migrant Beggars and Buskers: China's Have-Less Celebrities
  - Jafar Suryomenggolo – Factory Employment, Female Workers' Activism, and Authoritarianism in Indonesia: Reading Ida Irianti's Pembelaan
  - Duncan McCargo – The Changing Politics of Thailand's Buddhist Order
  - Su-kyoung Hwang – The East of the Cold War
  - Ian G.R. Shaw – Life and Death in Droneworld
  - Moss Roberts – Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
  - Tribute: Christina Gilmartin (1946–2012)
Volume 43
- Number 1 (March 2011)
  - Keir Reeves and Colin Long – Unbearable Pressures on Paradise?: Tourism and Heritage Management in Luang Prabang, a World Heritage Site
  - Ephraim Poertner, Mathias Junginger, Ulrike Müller-Böker – Migration in Far West Nepal: Intergenerational Linkages between Internal and International Migration of Rural-to-Urban Migrants
  - Morten B. Pedersen – The Politics of Burma's "Democratic" Transition: Prospects for Change and Options for Democrats
  - Graeme MacRae – Rice Farming in Bali: Organic Production and Marketing Challenges
  - Laura E. Hein – Reckoning with War in the Museum: Hijikata Teiichi at the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art
  - Peter Dale Scott – Obama and Afghanistan: America's Drug-Corrupted War
  - Michael K. Connors – Truth on Trial in Thailand
  - Robert J. McMahon – Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
  - Nicholas Patler – A Twentieth-Century History of Bombing Civilians / A History of Bombing
- Number 2 (June 2011)
  - Aasim Sajjad Akhtar – Patronage and Class in Urban Pakistan: Modes of Labor Control in the Contractor Economy
  - Sophia Woodman – Law, Translation, and Voice: Transformation of a Struggle for Social Justice in a Chinese Village
  - Ian G. Baird – The Don Sahong Dam: Potential Impacts on Regional Fish Migrations, Livelihoods, and Human Health
  - Wang Hui – The Dialectics of Autonomy and Opening: China: Analyzing Its Development Model
  - Claudia Pozzana and Alessandro Russo – Continuity / Discontinuity: China's Place in the Contemporary World
  - Julien Mercille – The U.S. "War On Drugs" in Afghanistan: Reality or Pretext?
  - Ronald Skeldon – Migration in Far West Nepal: Reflections on Movements in and from the Region
- Number 3 (September 2011)
  - Martin Hart-Landsberg – Capitalism, The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and Resistance
  - Sharmani Patricia Gabriel – Translating Bangsa Malaysia: Toward a New Cultural Politics of Malaysian-ness
  - Antje Missbach – Ransacking the Field?: Collaboration and Competition between Local and Foreign Researchers in Aceh
  - Samson Lim – The Case of Volunteer 8: Proof, Violence, and History in Thai Society
  - Laura Hein, guest editor – Cultures of War Roundtable
  - Jeff Kingston – Tsunami: Reflections and Aftershocks
- Number 4 (December 2011)
  - Philip F. Kelly, guest editor – Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia: Thematic Issue: Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia
  - Derek Hall – Where the Streets Are Paved with Prawns: Crop Booms and Migration in Southeast Asia
  - Sai S.W. Latt – More than Culture, Gender, and Class: Erasing Shan Labor in the "Success" of Thailand's Royal Development Project
  - Jonathan Rigg and Albert Salamanca – Connecting Lives, Living, and Location: Mobility and Spatial Signatures in Northeast Thailand, 1982 - 2009
  - Adam Lukasiewicz – Migration and Gender Identity in the Rural Philippines: Households with Farming Wives and Migrant Husbands
  - Hew Cheng Sim – Coping with Change: Rural Transformation and Women in Contemporary Sarawak, Malaysia
  - Laura Hein, guest editor, with Sheila Jager, Monica Kim, Ravi Palat, Emily Rosenberg, and Ussama Makdisi – Cultures of War Roundtable (Round Two)
  - Daqing Yang – Revisionism and the Nanjing Atrocity
  - Moss Roberts, reviewer – Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence
  - Marilyn B. Young, reviewer – The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan / The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's
  - Ephraim Poertner, Mathias Junginger, and Ulrike Müller-Böker – Migration in Far West Nepal: Challenging Migration Categories and Theoretical Lenses
Volume 42
- Number 1: Thematic Issue: Heritage, Nationhood, and Language: Migrants with Japan Connections (part 1) (March 2010)
  - Heonik Kwon – North Korea’s Politics of Longing
  - Benny Hari Juliawan – Extracting Labor from Its Owner: Private Employment Agencies and Labor Market Flexibility in Indonesia
  - Neriko Doerr – Introduction: Heritage, Nationhood, and Language: Migrants with Japan Connections
  - Taku Suzuki – Learning to Be Transnational: Japanese Language Education for Bolivia's Okinawan Diaspora
  - Yuri Yamasaki – Conflicted Attitudes Toward Heritage: Heritage Language Learning of Returnee: Adolescents from Japan at a Nikkei School in Lima, Peru
  - Yuko Okubo – Heritage: Owned or Assigned?: The Cultural Politics of Teaching Heritage Language in Osaka, Japan
  - Hassan N. Gardezi – Hari: My Comrade
  - Hassan N. Gardezi – Allah, Army, and America in Pakistan
- Number 2: Thematic Issue: Heritage, Nationhood, and Language: Migrants with Japan Connections (part 2) (June 2010)
  - Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu – Analyzing Exploitation: The Mechanisms Underpinning Low Wages and Excessive Overtime in Chinese Export Factories
  - Neriko Doerr and Kiri Lee – Inheriting "Japanese-Ness" Diversely: Heritage Practices at a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United States
  - Ayako Takamori – Rethinking Japanese American "Heritage" in the Homeland
  - Laura Miller – Afterword: Japan-Related Linguistic Intervention
  - Krista E. Van Vleet – Afterword: Cross-Cultural Implications of Japanese Heritage Language Policies and Practices
  - Barbra A. Meek – Afterword: Dreaming in… English? The Complexity and Unexpectedness of Japanese Being and Becoming through Language
  - Leela Fernandes – The Violence of Forgetting: Poverty and Change in Post-Liberalization India
  - V.K. Ramachandran – Dungariya Village, Southern Rajasthan
  - V. Ramaswamy, Lorena Gibson, Sita Venkateswar – The Right to Education and the Pedagogy for Hope: Some Perspectives on Talimi Haq School
  - Tamara Jacka – Gender, the Family, Sexuality, and Governance: Vietnam and China
  - Marilyn B. Young – Review: Wayne Karlin, Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and the Living in Vietnam
  - Letters
- Number 3 (September 2010)
  - Michael D. Barr – Marxists in Singapore?: Lee Kuan Yew’s Campaign against Catholic Social Justice Activists in the 1980s
  - Joseph Tharamangalam – Human Development as Transformative Practice:: Lessons from Kerala and Cuba
  - Jae-Jung Suh – Race to Judge, Rush to Act: The Sinking of the Cheonan and the Politics of National Insecurity
  - Jennifer Robertson, guest editor – Anthropologists and War
  - Dustin Wright – Impasse at MCAS Futenma
  - David Wildman and Phyllis Bennis – The War in Afghanistan Goes Global
  - Suzy Kim – (Dis)orienting North Korea
  - Jeff Kingston – Record in Pictures of Yasukuni Jinja: Yushukan
  - Yee Yeong Chong – Correction
- Number 4: Thematic Issue: Truth and Reconciliation in the Republic of Korea (December 2010)
  - Jae-Jung Suh – Truth and Reconciliation in South Korea: Confronting War, Colonialism, and Intervention in the Asia Pacific
  - Kim Dong-Choon – The Long Road toward Truth and Reconciliation: Unwavering Attempts to Achieve Justice in South Korea
  - Suh Hee-Kyung – Atrocities Before and During the Korean War: Mass Civilian Killings by South Korean and U.S. Forces
  - Charles J. Hanley – No Gun Ri: Official Narrative and Inconvenient Truths
  - Jeon Seung-Hee – War Trauma, Memories, and Truths: Representations of the Korean War in Pak Wan-so's Writings and in "Still Present Pasts"
  - Lisa Yoneyama – Politicizing Justice: Post–Cold War Redress and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Volume 41
- Number 1: Thematic Issue: Distant Divides and Intimate Connections (part 2) (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: Feature: Burma (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: Thematic Issue: Distant Divides and Intimate Connections (part 1) (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: Thematic Issue: Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China (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: Thematic Issue: Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China (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: Thematic Issue: Patani Merdeka--Thailand's Southern Fire (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 2006)
  - 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: Thematic 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 and Socialism Roundtable: 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: Thematic Issue: Crafting Gender (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: Thematic Issue: Markets in Transition: Conflicts, Political Regimes and the "War on Terror" in East and S.E. Asia (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: Thematic Issue: Markets in Transition: Conflicts, Political Regimes and the "War on Terror" in East and S.E. Asia (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 (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 2001)
  - 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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