Editorial Foreword and Forthcoming Articles 851
ARTICLES
Asia Beyond the Headlines
Lessons from the Ghost of Salaryman Past: The Global Costs of the Breadwinner Imaginary
Robin M. LeBlanc 857
Presidential Address Disquiet in the House of Gender
Gail Hershatter 873
Trends
Gender, Sexuality, and the State in Southeast Asia
Michael G. Peletz 895
JAS at AAS Round Table: Sexuality and the State
Introduction to the JAS at AAS Roundtable on “Sexuality and the State in Asia ”
Elizabeth J. Remick 919
Popular Culture and Masculinity Ideals in East Asia, with Special Reference to China
Kam Louie 929
When “Sexuality” Floated Free of Histories in South Asia
Indrani Chatterjee 945
The Nation-State, the Age/Gender System, and the Reconstitution of Erotic Desire in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Gregory M. Pflugfelder 963
Age as a Category of Gender Analysis: Servant Girls, Modern Girls and Gender in Southeast Asia
Rachel Leow 975
Research Articles
Writing for Justice: An Activist Beginning of the Cult of Female Chastity in Late Imperial China
Siyen Fei 991
At the Margins of Empire: Feminist-Nationalist Configurations of Burmese Society in the Hindi Public (1917–1920)
Shobna Nijhawan 1013
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China : A Reconsideration of Gender, Economics, and Meaning in Social Causation
Melissa J. Brown, Laurel Bossen, Hill Gates, Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips 1035
Gender, Uyghur Identity, and the Story of Nuzugum
Kara Abramson 1069
BOOK REVIEWS
CHINA
Billioud, Thinking Through Confucian Modernity: A Study of Mou Zongsan’s Moral Metaphysics
John Berthrong 1093
Burell and Svensson, eds., Making Law Work: Chinese Laws in Context
Hongying Wang 1095
Cai and Wang, eds., China ’s Journey toward the Rule of Law: Legal Reform, 1978–2008
Hongying Wang 1095
Chia and De Weerdt, Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China , 900–1400
Martin J. Heijdra 1099
Dirlik, Li, and Yen, eds., Sociology and Anthropology in TwentiethCentury China : Between Universalism and Indigenism
Nora Sausmikat 1102
Frank, Objectifying China , Imagining America : Chinese Commodities in Early America
David Porter 1104
Grant and Idema, trans. Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang
Chün-fang Yü 1106
Hanson, Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China
Hilary A. Smith 1108
Jiang trans. Dew, My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident
Barrett L. McCormick 1110
Lai, A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937–1945
Gregor Benton 1112
Lim, Lineage Society on the Southeastern Coast of China : The Impact of Japanese Piracy in the 16th Century
Dian Murray 1114
Liu; Link, Martin-Liao, and Liu, eds., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
Barrett L. McCormick 1110
Moloughney and Zarrow, eds., Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth-Century China
Roger Des Forges 1116
Pan, The Lyrical Resonance Between Chinese Poets and Painters: The Tradition and Poetics of Tihuashi
Elizabeth Brotherton 1119
Reilly, Strong Society, Smart State : The Rise of Public Opinion in China ’s Japan Policy
Zhengxu Wang 1120
Sussman, Return Migration and Identity: A Global Phenomenon, A Hong Kong Case
Violetta Ravagnoli 1122
Wang, Ten Thousand Scrolls: Reading and Writing in the Poetics of Huang Tingjian and the Late Northern Song
Jonathan Pease 1124
Woo and Gallagher, eds., Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China
Hongying Wang 1095
Yang, Religion in China : Survival and Revival under Communist Rule
Richard Madsen 1126
Zhang, Chinese Perceptions of the U.S. : An Exploration of China’s Foreign Policy Motivations
Robert A. Kapp 1128
Zheng , China on the Sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China
Joanna Waley-Cohen 1129
INNER ASIA
Bovingdon, The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
David Brophy 1131
Ishihama, Shincho to Chibetto Bukky o : bosatsu o to natta Kenryuˉ tei [The Qing Dynasty and the Tibetan Buddhist World: The Qianlong Emperor Who Became a Buddhist King]
Lan Wu 1133
van Schaik , Tibet : A History
Brenton Sullivan 1135
van Schaik and Galambos, Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim
Nicole Willock 1140
JAPAN
Davis, Schroeder, and Wirth, Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School
Michiko Yusa 1142
Key, Truth from a Lie: Documentary, Detection, and Reflexivity in Abe Kob o’s Realist Project
Yayoi Uno Everett 1145
Laver, The Sakoku Edicts and the Politics of Tokugawa Hegemony
Robert Hellyer 1147
Patessio, Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan : The Development of the Feminist Movement
Ann Marie L. Davis 1149
Satoˉ, trans. Nara , Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State : The Politics of Beauty
Maki Fukuoka 1151
Saya, trans. Noble, The Sino-Japanese War and the Birth of Japanese Nationalism
Rotem Kowner 1153
Watsuji, trans. Bein, Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Shamon Dogen
Eric Cunningham 1155
KOREA
Bae, Richardson, and Heikkila, Regional and Urban Policy and Planning on the Korean Peninsula
Baleshwar Thakur 1158
Jeong, Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema, Modernity Arrives Again
Joanna Elfving-Hwang 1160
Kim, Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging
EuyRyung Jun 1163
Kim, Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era
Travis Workman 1165
Kim and Vogel, eds., The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
Tae gyun Park 1167
Shin, One Alliance , Two Lenses: U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era
Jennifer Jihye Chun 1168
SOUTH ASIA
Bronner, Cox, and McCrea, eds., South Asian Texts in History: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock
Frederick M. Smith 1171
Ghosh, Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular
Daniel A. Jasper 1174
Lefèvre, Portraiture in Early India : Between Transience and Eternity
Michael W. Meister 1176
Prakash, Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City
William Elison 1178
Rahman, From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History
Mathew N. Schmalz 1180
Soneji, Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
Arthi Devarajan 1181
Thiranagama, In my Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka
Daniel Bass 1184
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Gainsborough , Vietnam : Rethinking the State
Mark Sidel 1186
Harms, Saigon ’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City
Mark Sidel 1186
Hayton , Vietnam : Rising Dragon
Mark Sidel 1186
Schwenkel, The American War in Contemporary Vietnam : Transnational Remembrances and Representation
Mark Sidel 1186
Schober, Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar : Cultural Narratives, Colonial Legacies, and Civil Society
Eric Braun 1189
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