Volume 88 – No. 2

Articles

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  Introduction: Religion, Business and Contestation in Malaysia and Singapore

  Edmund Terence Gomez, Robert Hunt and John Roxborogh

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  Spirituality as an Integral Part of Islamic Business: The Case of Global Ikhwan

  Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid

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  Islamic Banking and Finance: Sacred Alignment, Strategic Alliances

  Maznah Mohamad and Johan Saravanamuttu

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  Megachurches in Singapore: The Faith of an Emergent Middle Class

  Terence Chong

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  “Do Business Till He Comes”: The Business of Housing God in Singapore Megachurches

  Jeaney Yip and Susan Ainsworth

Perspectives

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• WANG RENMEI: The Wildcat of Shanghai | WILD ROSE [YE MEIGUI] 1932

  Chris Berry

• NOWHERE TO CALL HOME: A Tibetan in Beijing | Directed by Jocelyn Ford

  Emily T. Yeh

• MALLAMALL | Written, produced and directed by Lalita Krishna

  Sandeep Ray

• UNITY THROUGH CULTURE & STORI TUMBUNA: Ancestors’ Tales

  John Barker

• RETURN: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia | Edited by Xiang Biao, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota

  Glenda S. Roberts

• ARCHITECTS OF GROWTH?: Sub-national Governments and Industrialization in Asia | Edited by Francis E. Hutchinson

  Sunil Mani

• BROTHERS IN ARMS: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979 | By Andrew Mertha

  Chien-peng Chung

• RED STAMPS AND GOLD STARS: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia | Edited by Sarah Turner

  Vatthana Pholsena

• ENCOUNTERING MODERNITY: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America | Edited by Albert L. Park and David K. Yoo

  Don Baker

• CONFRONTING MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II: European and Asian Legacies | Edited by Daniel Chirot, Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider

  Ivo Plsek

• COPRODUCING ASIA: Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media | By Stephanie DeBoer

  Wendy Su

• CHINA CONSTRUCTING CAPITALISM: Economic Life and Urban Change | By Michael Keith, Scott Lash, Jakob Arnoldi, and Tyler Rooker

  Alexander F. Day

• SECURITY AND PROFIT IN CHINA’S ENERGY POLICY: Hedging Against Risk. Contemporary Asia in the World | By Øystein Tunsjø

  Darrin Magee

• THE CHINA MODEL AND GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: Comparison, Impact, and Interaction | By Ming Wan

  Paul Bowles

• CHINA’S REGIONAL RELATIONS: Evolving Foreign Policy Dynamics | By Mark Beeson, Fujian Li

  Zhiqun Zhu

• RISING INEQUALITY IN CHINA: Challenges to a Harmonious Society | Edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato, Terry Sicular

  Dimitar D. Gueorguiev

• CLEARER SKIES OVER CHINA: Reconciling Air Quality, Climate, and Economic Goals | Edited by Chris P. Nielsen and Mun S. Ho

  Joanna Lewis

• THE LOST GENERATION: The Rustication of China’s Educated Youth (1968-1980) | By Michel Bonnin; translated by Krystyna Horko

  Paul Clark

• PARTNERS AND RIVALS: The Uneasy Future of China’s Relationship with the United States | By Wendy Dobson

  Denny Roy

• DIASPORIC CHINESENESS AFTER THE RISE OF CHINA: Communities and Cultural Production | Edited by Julia Kuehn, Kam Louie, and David M. Pomfret

  Serene K. Tan

• HONG KONG’S COURT OF FINAL APPEAL: The Development of the Law in China’s Hong Kong | Edited by Simon N.M. Young and Yash Ghai

  Pitman B. Potter

• NEGOTIATING AUTONOMY IN GREATER CHINA: Hong Kong and its Sovereign Before and After 1997 | Edited by Ray Yep

  Gordon Mathews

• VOICES FROM TIBET: Selected Essays and Reportage | By Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong; edited and translated by Violet S. Law

  Tsering Shakya

• LIVING DEAD IN THE PACIFIC: Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines | By Mark Munsterhjelm

  Scott Simon

• MIGRANT WORKERS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: An Institutional Perspective on Transnational Employment | By Kiyoto Tanno; Translated by Teresa Castelvetere

  Hironori Onuki

• MORAL NATION: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History | By Miriam Kingsberg

  Ryoko Yamamoto

• PRECARIOUS JAPAN | By Anne Allison

  David Chiavacci

• JAPANESE PERCEPTIONS OF FOREIGNERS | Edited by Shunsuke Tanabe

  Miloš Debnár

• DILEMMAS OF ADULTHOOD: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance | By Nancy Rosenberger

  Eriko Maeda

• GENDER AND LAW IN THE JAPANESE IMPERIUM | Edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks

  Sumiko Otsubo

• IMAGINING JAPAN IN POST-WAR EAST ASIA: Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture | Edited by Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu and Edward Vickers

  Daniel Sneider

• WORLD WAR I AND THE TRIUMPH OF A NEW JAPAN, 1919–1930 | By Frederick R. Dickinson

  Jeffrey P. Bayliss

• OPENING A WINDOW TO THE WEST: The Foreign Concession at Kōbe, Japan, 1868–1899 | By Peter Ennals

  Harald Fuess

• REGIONALIZING CULTURE: The Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia | By Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin

  Monir Hossain Moni

• EXPERIMENTAL BUDDHISM: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan | By John K. Nelson

  Victor Forte

• RACE FOR EMPIRE: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II | By T. Fujitani

  Daniel Lachapelle Lemire

• THE KOREAN POPULAR CULTURE READER | Edited by Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe

  Dal Yong Jin

• THE TWO KOREAS AND THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL SPORT | By Brian Bridges

  Wolfram Manzenreiter

• IN THE SERVICE OF HIS KOREAN MAJESTY: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876–1888 | By Wayne Patterson

  Carl Young

• AN INDIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: Integrating Markets, Democracy and Social Justice | Edited by Sunil Khilnani, Manmohan Malhoutra

  John Harriss

• COMMERCE WITH THE UNIVERSE: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination | By Gaurav Desai

  Amitendu Palit

• THE DARJEELING DISTINCTION: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India | By Sarah Besky

  Sharit K. Bhowmik

• THE GOLDEN WAVE: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka’s Tsunami Disaster | By Michele Ruth Gamburd

  Pia Hollenbach

• COMMUNICATING INDIA’S SOFT POWER: Buddha to Bollywood | By Daya Kishan Thussu

  Parama Sinha Palit

• THE WARRIOR STATE: Pakistan in the Contemporary World | By T.V. Paul

  Ishtiaq Ahmed, Lahore

• ENTERING UNCHARTED WATERS?: ASEAN and the South China Sea | Edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun

  Richard Kyle Paisley

• INTERACTIONS WITH A VIOLENT PAST: Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Lao, and Vietnam | Edited by Vatthana Pholsena and Oliver Tappe

  Christopher Goscha

• HANOI’S WAR: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam | By Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

  D. Gordon Longmuir

• SOUNDING OUT HERITAGE: Cultural Politics and the Social Practice of Quan Họ Folk Song in Northern Vietnam | By Lauren Meeker

  Erik Harms

• RESISTING GENDERED NORMS: Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in Cambodia | By Mona Lilja

  Kate Grace Frieson

• BUDDHISM IN A DARK AGE: Cambodian Monks under Pol Pot | By Ian Harris

  Matt Galway

• AFTER THE NEW ORDER: Space, Politics and Jakarta | By Abidin Kusno

  Doreen Lee

• CULTURE, POWER, AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE INDONESIAN STATE: Cultural Policy across the Twentieth-Century to the Reform Era | By Tod Jones

  Abidin Kusno

• PRODUCING INDONESIA: The State of the Field of Indonesian Studies | Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo

  Bambang Purwanto

• SURABAYA, 1945-2010: Neighbourhood, State and Economy in Indonesia’s City of Struggle | By Robbie Peters

  Freek Colombijn

• TRAILS OF BRONZE DRUMS ACROSS EARLY SOUTHEAST ASIA: Exchange Routes and Connected Cultural Spheres | By Ambra Calo

  Thomas Hunter

• PERFORMING PLACE, PRACTISING MEMORIES: Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State | By Rosita Henry

  Lorraine Towers

• GOVERNING NEW GUINEA: An Oral History of Papuan Administrators, 1950-1990 | Edited by Leontine Visser

  Benedicta Rousseau

• PACIFIC IDENTITIES AND WELL-BEING: Cross-Cultural Perspectives | Edited by Margaret Nelson Agee, Tracey McIntosh, Philip Culbertson and Cabrini ‘Ofa Makasiale

  Toon van Meijl

• THE ECHO OF THINGS: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands | By Christopher Wright

  Andrea Low

• THE KANAK AWAKENING: The Rise of Nationalism in New Caledonia | By David A. Chappell

  Michael Horowitz

• COLONIALISM, MAASINA RULE, AND THE ORIGINS OF MALAITAN KASTOM | By David W. Akin

  Anton Ploeg