- 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?