Asian Studies Review, Volume 36, Issue 4 (2012)

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Contributors
Pages: v-vi
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Queer Asian Subjects: Transgressive Sexualities and Heteronormative Meanings
Evelyn Blackwood & Mark Johnson
Pages: 441-451
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Korean-Pop, Tom Gay Kings, Les Queens and the Capitalist Transformation of Sex/Gender Categories in Thailand
Megan Sinnott
Pages: 453-474
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Kathoey “In Trend”: Emergent Genderscapes, National Anxieties and the Re-Signification of Male-Bodied Effeminacy in Thailand
Dredge Byung'chu Käng
Pages: 475-494
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Beyond Emasculation: Being Muslim and Becoming Hijra in South Asia
Adnan Hossain
Pages: 495-513
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion: Heteronormativity in India and Indonesia
Saskia Wieringa
Pages: 515-530
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Malabar Secrets: South Indian Muslim Men's (Homo)sociality across the Indian Ocean
Filippo Osella
Pages: 531-549
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China
Xing Ruan
Pages: 551-552
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Ballad of the Himalayas: Stories of Tibet
Jess Brooks
Pages: 552-554
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness
Joel Wing-Lun
Pages: 554-555
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Embodying Difference: The Making of Burakumin in Modern Japan
June A. Gordon
Pages: 556-557
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Book Review - JENNIFER S. PROUGH. Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shōjo Manga.
James Welker
Pages: 557-558
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Storytelling in Japanese Art
Gary James Hickey
Pages: 559-560
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Angry Drummers: A Taiko Group from Naniwa, Osaka, Japan
Adam Broinowski
Pages: 560-562
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Book Review - MARGARET S. KEY. Truth from a Lie: Documentary, Detection, and Reflexivity in Abe Kobo's Realist Project.
Karen Thornber
Pages: 562-563
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea 1876–1945
Esther Lovely
Pages: 564-565
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War
Mathias Vigouroux
Pages: 565-567
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body
Lucy Fraser
Pages: 567-568
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Book Review - KIICHI FUJIWARA and YOSHIKO NAGANO (eds).The Philippines and Japan in America's Shadow.
Peter Sales
Pages: 569-570
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing
Etsuko Toyoda
Pages: 570-572
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Japan's New Inequality: Intersection of Employment Reforms and Welfare Arrangements
Kirsti Rawstron
Pages: 572-573
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Globalization and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms
Minna Säävälä
Pages: 574-575
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Book Review
The Essential Tagore
Tanveer Ahmed
Pages: 575-577
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Understanding Bangladesh
Mohammad Mozahidul Islam
Pages: 577-578
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Class
Tripta Chandola
Pages: 578-580
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora: Revisiting the Boat People
Yen Le Espiritu
Pages: 580-581
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Book Review
Modern Muslim Identities: Negotiating Religion and Ethnicity in Malaysia
Sven Alexander Schottmann
Pages: 581-583
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Student Activism in Malaysia: Crucible, Mirror, Sideshow
Gerhard Hoffstaedter
Pages: 583-584
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Book Review
Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves
Carla Jones
Pages: 585-586
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma
Susan Blackburn
Pages: 586-587
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Cultures at War: The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia
Peter A. Jackson
Pages: 587-589
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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In The Name Of Pauk-Phaw: Myanmar's China Policy since 1948
Trevor Wilson
Pages: 589-591
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Sikhs in Southeast Asia: Negotiating an Identity
John Solomon
Pages: 591-593
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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The Politics of Postcolonialism: Empire, Nation and Resistance
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Pages: 593-594
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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Editorial Board

Editorial Board
Page: ebi
Published online: 06 Dec 2012
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