International Journal of Asian Studies

Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 2008)

Linking Poetry, Painting, and Prints: the Mode of Poetic Pictures in Late Ming Illustrations to The Story of the Western Wing

MENG-CHING MA

Asian monetary history revisited [3]

Currency and Credit in Medieval Japan

EIJI SAKURAI
Translated by Michiko Okubo

LAW, State and society in China [8]

Aspects of Chinese Legal Culture – the Articulation of Written Law, State, and Society: a Review (Part Two). Private Law and Private Lawyers: a Discussion on the “Fields” of Law

JÉRÔME BOURGON

Review Articles

The Creation of Patriarchy in Japan: Wakita Haruko’s “Women in Medieval Japan” from a Comparative Perspective

DOROTHY KO

Taiwanese Studies of Trade Ceramics: At the Intersection of Indigenous and International Historiography

TAKASHI SAKAI
Translated and edited by Kazuo Morimoto and Gaynor Sekimori

BOOK REIVIEWS

Asceticism and Its Critics: Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives

TULLIO LOBETTI

Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation, and Communication

EMI GOTO

Society and Politics in an Ottoman Town: ‘Ayntab in the 17th Century

EUNJEONG YI

The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across in the Indian Ocean

ALEXANDER KNYSH

The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India

McCOMAS TAYLOR

Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia

MASAKAZU TANAKA

The Tay Son Uprising; Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-century Vietnam

EMMANUEL POISSON

Viet Nam: Borderless Histories

LIAM C. KELLEY

Higashi Ajia no ryosai kenboron – tsukurareta dento 東アジアの良妻賢母論－創られた伝統 (The Good Wife, Wise Mother Discourse in East Asia, an Invented Tradition)

MIZUYO SUDO

Our Great Qing: the Mongols, Buddhism, and the State in Late Imperial China

SABINE DABRINGHAUS

Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937

RODERICK I. WILSON

A Chinese Economic Revolution: Rural Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century

TIM WRIGHT

Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chine Beggars

DI WANG

Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong

NORMAN MINERS

Mao’s Last Revolution

LIJUN YANG

Himiko and Japan’s Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, Mythology

ANNA ANDREEVA

Fertility and Pleasure. Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan

ANDREA CASTIGLIONI

Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan

BARBARA CROSS

Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art

YUKIO LIPPIT

Japan’s Contested War Memories: The “Memory Rifts” in Historical Consciousness of World War II

IAN ASTLEY