International Journal of Asian Studies

Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2009)

Spoiled Guests or Dedicated Patriots? The Chinese in North Vietnam, 1954-1978
XIAORONG HAN
Ivory in Early Modern Ceylon: A Case Study in What Documents Don’t Reveal
MARTHA CHAIKLIN
Asian monetary history revisited [5]
Currency in Early Choseon Korea: Issuance, Principles and Controversies
HIDENORI SUKAWA
Translated by Gaynor Sekimori
Review Articles
New Studies on Statecraft in Mid- and Late-Qing China: Qing Intellectuals and the Debates on Economic Policies
MIO KISHIMOTO
Foundations of Literacy in Premodern China: A New Study of Book Culture in the Qing and Republican Periods
YASUSHI OKI
BOOK REIVIEWS
Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao, eds., Sinographies: Writing China
HILDE DE WEERDT
Lillian M. Li, Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s
DAISUKE FURUICHI
Roxani Eleni Margariti, Aden & the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port
LI GUO
Andrew J. Newman, Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire
AKIHIKO YAMAGUCHI
Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
ZHIQIANG WANG
Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
PAUL R. KATZ
MacKinnon, Lary, and Vogel, eds., China at War: Regions of China, 1937-1945
DAVID S. G. GOODMAN4
Naomi Standen, Unbounded Loyalty: Frontier Crossings in Liao China
HUGH R. CLARK
Etienne de la Vaissiere, Samarcande et Samarra: Elites d’Asie Centrale dans l’Empire Abbasside and D. G. Tor, Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ‘Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World
MATTHEW S. GORDON
Thomas R. Metcalf, Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920
RYUTO SHIMADA
Sunil S. Amrith, Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65
KOHEI WAKIMURA
Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
KENTARO MATSUBARA