International Journal of Asian Studies

Vol. 8, No. 1 (Junuary 2011)

Chinese Lacquerwares from Begram: Date and Provenance
LIANGREN ZHANG
Attorney on Trial: When Lawyers Met Phony Lawyers in Republican Beijing
MICHAEL HOI-KIT NG
Backlash, Fight Back, and Back-Pedaling: Responses to State Feminism in Contemporary Japan
AYAKO KANO
Review articles
One Giant Leap in the Study of the Chinese Crescent: A Superb Annotated Translation of Liu Zhi’s Nature and Principle in Islam
TATSUYA NAKANISHI
The Wanli Emperor and Ming China’s Defence of Korea against Japan
JAMES B. LEWIS
Two Recent Contributions and New Horizons in Modern Tibetan History
NICOLE WILLOCK
The Consciousness of the Past in the Creativity of the Present: ModernTibetan Literature and Social Change
LAMA JABB
Book reviews
François Gipouloux, La Méditerranée asiatique
ALESSANDRO STAZIANI
Liam Matthew Brockey, Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World
R. PO-CHIA HSIA
Haneda Masashi, Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Cultural Interaction
KUO-TUNG CH’EN
Rosalind Morris, Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia
DAVID ODO
Prasenjit Duara, The global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation
CEMIL AYDIN
Mark E. Byington, Early Modern Korea 1: Reconsidering Early Korean History through Archaeology
GINA L. BARNES
Anindita Ghosh, Behind the Veil : Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia
YUMIKO TOKITA-TANABE
David Durand-Guédy, Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Isfahān in the Saljūq Period
A.C.S. PEACOK
Andrew Marsham, Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire
MATTEW S. GORDON
David Sneath, The Headless State, Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society and Misreprentations of Nomadic Inner Asia
DAVID DURABD-GUÉDY
Eiji Nagasawa, Modern Egypt through Japanese Eyes: A Study on Intellectual and Socio-economic Aspects of Egyptian Nationalism
MASSOUD DAHER
Leith Morton, The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature
INDRA LEVY